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Russell Frederick is a photographer from Brooklyn, New York whose global world view and compassion for the human condition informs his work.
He produces his photographs primarily with medium format black and white film. For years, he has been documenting the people of the community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, which is second only to Harlem in terms of African-American popular culture. Bed-Stuy, as the place is affectionately called is also the place that Russell Frederick calls home.
Frederick has also photographed extensively in other communities including Brooklyn, Kingston, Jamaica, the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Hattiesburg, Mississippi and more.
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Corey Rich is one of the world's most recognized adventure sports and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers. Over the last two decades, this photographer, director and DP has combined his creativity, athleticism and burning desire for exploration to capture some of the wildest places on earth. In doing so, Rich not only secured a place at the center of contemporary adventure storytelling, but he can be named as one of the pioneers of this authentic style of immersion-based photographic and motion work.
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about where to find scenes for your photographs. Though much is made about street photography in big, exotic cities, it's not a requirement. Ibarionex suggests that simply by observing more carefully you'll discover photo-worthy scenes very close to home.
Allison Zaucha (b.1991) is an independent award-winning photojournalist based in Los Angeles, California. She is passionate about working on social issues with a variety of news publications and nonprofit organizations. In addition, Allison enjoys developing meaningful storytelling campaigns with brands and commercial clients. She uses the camera as a means of connection, empowerment and understanding. Allison is a member of Women Photograph and NPPA.
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about waiting for a moment in your photographs. Rather than snapping blindly, this video suggests observing all the elements in a scene and waiting for the flourish or gestures that helps to tell a story or produce visual tension.
Elliott Kaufman's career path is unique but has always revolved around architectural motives. When he began shooting in the mid 70's his orientation was toward the fine arts. Kaufman developed ideas for site-specific photomurals and wall art much before this concept became a mainstream art venue.
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Jeffery Saddoris is endlessly curious – about people, about creativity, about line and shape and color – and his personal and professional pursuits are driven by learning, discovering, imagining, listening, celebrating, and making.
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Hadi Salehi is a master of the art of analog photography. Salehi's images capture diverse portraits that are powerful and soft, leaving a haunting quality that lingers in the psyche. Salehi seeks to create a collective awareness as a cultural messenger through his images, revealing quiet truths through his process intensive works. With a career that spans more than 40 years,
In this week's video, Ibarionex shares photographs that he created from his recent trip to Vancouver, Canada. Along with photographer, Olaf Sztaba, Ibarionex taught a 2.5-day workshop exploring the city and teaching his approach to photography. He discusses a few of the images he created with his Fujifilm x100F.
Italian photojournalist Ernesto Bazan first traveled to Cuba in 1992 and immediately fell in love with the county and its people; he felt transported to the Sicily of his childhood. After many more trips, Bazan finally moved to Cuba in 1997, documenting daily life, raising a family, and teaching photography classes during the "Special Period."
Jason Hamacher's professional efforts are shaped by passion, motivation and vision. He is an internationally recognized musician, photographer, writer, public speaker and massage therapist. His work has taken him across the globe documenting the sights and sounds of culture, music, people and food. Hamacher's diverse clientele ranges from Vidal Sassoon to an NBA dance team, from the Syrian Embassy to some of the most popular heavy-metal bands in the world. He exhibits his photography frequently and is currently finishing a both a book on Aleppo, Syria and a CD of ancient Christian chants.
Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. His passion for music began at the age of four, when he started studying as a classical cellist for eight years before moving on to the guitar. He continues to play guitar to this day. Jérôme displayed an early talent in the visual arts, studying the discipline in high school before completing a formal education in photography at the prestigious E.F.E.T. School of Photography in Paris, France.
Ken Merfeld owns and operates a commercial / fine art photography studio where he photographs fashion, advertising, portrait, and celebrity assignments. His work has appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Angelino, Zoom, Black and White, and Los Angeles magazines.
Sheila Pree Bright is often described as a "Cultural Anthropologist. Her earliest experience as a photographer began when she spent time in Houston where she began photographing the gangsta rap scene and confronting the dynamic between Hip hop and gun culture. In 2003, she created her MFA thesis photo series, Plastic Bodies, which would later be featured in the film Through the Lens Darkly and go viral on Huffington Post in 2013.
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The chain has big plans for Texas. Eventually, the no frills, small store grocer said it wants as many as 450 stores across Texas. Aldi's expanding at the same time that Wal Mart is accelerating its small store strategy in Texas.
"We still have plenty of room to grow in Texas," said Hector Alejandro, director of regional buying for Aldi Inc. "This is an open call to anyone we haven't tapped into yet."
The grocer is holding what it's calling a supplier engagement event on March 18 at the company's Denton distribution center. Almost all the items sold in Aldi stores, from pickles and ice cream to paper and cleaning products, are private label brands.
"Opportunities for us in Texas are substantial, and we want to continue to support our growth with more suppliers in Texas and all the neighboring states," Alejandro said.
"We have received a great response for the event," he said, with potential suppliers coming from all major cities in Texas. Toshiba Ultrasound Probegrowth plans. store count to 2,000 by 2018.
Aldi said it's responding to consumer demand. The chain's stores are about 17,000 square feet, a third of the size of a traditional supermarket, and they stock about 1,400 items.
The company is looking for producers and growers of all sizes, Alejandro said. "Some companies may only be able to supply us in one or two states," he said. The grocer wants to add suppliers closer to its stores and new distribution centers.
Since it arrived here in 2010, Aldi has opened 89 stores in Texas, 52 of them in North Texas and 19 in Houston. The German owned company, which is based in Batavia, Ill., operates a large distribution center in Denton. It has a second under construction near Houston, a 650,000 square foot facility that will open in Rosenberg in early 2016.
Aldi's produce and dairy prices are often lower than Wal Mart's, and it started milk and egg price wars when its stores first opened in Dallas. Wal Mart lowered prices at its Asda UK division last year, where Aldi is also expanding.
Earlier this month, Wal Mart told customers that it's changing the Savings Catcher program it launched last year. It's removing some departments from the refund offer, including produce, meat and bakery items. last year.
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Nicholiea Taylor was found in the courtyard of the Lafayette Gardens housing development on Dekalb Avenue in Clinton Hill at about 11:30 a.m., police said.
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Investigators are looking for 21-year-old Corey Brown, who has been identified as a suspect in the shooting. Brown has been arrested several times, including three times this year, according to the NYPD.
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THE THEME your organization will pursue this year, I understand, is Management Information Systems. Your program committee is to be commended on its choice, for there is much to be said about MIS. More important, many companies are considering Management Information
Systems. If they wish to succeed in implementing MIS, however, some attention should be given to lessons already learned by others.
Some of the general concepts of a management information system— those relating to hardware and software—have previously been presented before your organization, I am told. My comments will therefore be systems-oriented. First to be discussed will be the definition of information
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Many data processing terms vary in meaning at the whim of the user. Management Information System is one of these. Therefore let us spend a moment defining it.
The type of Management Information System we shall be discussing could be defined as a system designed to produce timely and concise information to the various levels of management—information that each manager requires in order to plan and control the activities for which he is held responsible. Notice that MIS is requirements- or user-oriented. It also encompasses the entire company and all levels of management.
There is another term we should define in contrast to MIS. The term is integrated data processing. Integrated data processing is merely


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Sundance and Topspin Bring D2F to Indie Film/
By Bob Moczydlowsky
The following post was originally published on TopSpinMedia.com.
Sure has been a lot of talk about movies around here lately, huh?
This morning, the Sundance Institute announced an expansion of their incredibly forward-thinking Sundance Artist Services program, and we at Topspin are honored to be included alongside distribution outlets iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, Hulu, New Video, Netflix and Sundance Now as the provider of Direct-To-Fan Marketing and Distribution tools. We're humbled to have our first major expansion outside of music to be with such a storied and benevolent institution, and we're quite literally stoked to start helping Sundance filmmakers connect with fans and create new channels for their amazing work.
This quote from Robert Redford really says it all:
"When I founded the Institute in 1981, it was at a time when a few studios ran the industry and an artist's biggest concern was whether their film would get made," Redford said. "Technology has lessened that burden, but the big challenge today is how audiences can see these films. The Artist Services program is a direct response to that need. We're not in the distribution business; we're in the business of helping independent voices be heard."
If you'd like to read the official press release, you can DOWNLOAD HERE.
In addition to the expansion of the Artist Services program today, Sundance also launched an online alumni community containing blog posts and essays from some of the brightest and bravest minds in indie film, like Tim League and Ted Hope. The goal is to provide a place where Sundance artists can share data and advice, and interact with distributors, technology partners and each other. Somehow, I managed to sneak my two cents in there, too. Below is a reprint of my "Direct-To-Fan Keynote" that appears inside the Sundance Artist Services site.
My hope is that all filmmakers find it useful. Please share it liberally.
You can it download it as a VIDEO or as a PDF.
Hello. My name is Bob.
I'm here to talk about Direct-to-Fan Marketing (D2F) and Distribution. I work at a software company called Topspin. We're honored to be a part of Sundance Artist Services.
Topspin makes software used by Kevin Smith, David Lynch, Ed Burns, Trent Reznor, Arcade Fire and thousands of other artists to sell downloads, merchandise, tickets and memberships directly to fans. Our company mission is to create an artistic middle class, and we're doing it by building a self-serve application you can use to market and distribute your work yourself.
You may think I mean self-release. Or DIY Distro. Or "creative" distribution. But those are not the same as Direct-to-Fan. What I'm talking about is a distribution and marketing strategy that should be a part of every filmmaker's career. I'm talking about making sure you are directly connected to your core audience. I'm talking about selling premium products to super fans. And I'm hoping to persuade you to treat your audience like your most important asset. It is time to invest in your fans.
Here's the problem I see: Filmmakers have been taught to be wholesalers, not retailers. Filmmakers make films — so the teaching goes — and then it is the job of distributors to market and distribute films.
There is actually a stigma attached to doing it oneself, as if every direct release was a sign not of true independence and autonomy but instead an indicator of the film's quality or filmmaker's professionalism. "Did you hear about XX film? They couldn't get distribution. They have to self-release." Sounds familiar, right? The goal is to make films and sell them to distributors. That's the model.
That shit is broken. Permanently. I mean it. Yes, the "traditional model" still exists as a best-case outcome for a few films. But most likely not for your film. Sorry. Just being honest. It's time to stop calling the best-case, long-shot, home-run option "the model". Let's get realistic about what's happening:
Everyday, the odds of the traditional indie model working for your film get longer and longer. Even at Sundance, upwards of 80 percent of the films fail to find traditional distribution deals. A ton of interesting and excellent films don't reach audiences and fail to grow the careers of the artists who made them. That's sad. And yet, more and more excellent films get made everyday. Because technology makes production easy.
And the Web makes distribution easy, too. My phone will shoot video and upload to YouTube. Production and distribution is in your pocket! But here's where the trouble starts: Free content, empowered fans and unlimited choice make marketing very, very hard. Fans can watch and share all day, effortlessly. But competing for their attention is really tough. Fans who want to watch a movie used to choose from the 10 films at the theatre on Friday night. Now they choose from the entire historical catalog of filmmaking on their laptops, phones, set-top boxes or VOD services. Or they skip the film altogether and play Words With Friends online. Think about your own habits. Getting fans to pay attention is harder than it has ever been.
"So, how will anyone see my work?" you ask. It's simple, actually. You need to grow a database of fans, and market to them. Here's how you do it:
First, make amazing films. I don't mean pretty-good films, or better-than-average films… I mean INCREDIBLE films. Invest in quality, and invest in new. New sells. But also please make sure to budget appropriately, based on the size of your audience. Don't have an audience? Then keep the budget LOW.
Second, give away free downloads in exchange for connection via email, Facebook and Twitter. This might mean a soundtrack, or the opening scene of the film, or some killer making-of footage. The point is to get fans excited, connected and sharing. You can't make dollars until you have fans, and giving away incredible content is the best way to attract new fans.
Third, offer premium products fans actually want to buy, and sell these premium products at a mix of price points FIRST. Many of the folks who will end up with the $2.99 rental on iTunes would be even happier with a great-looking shirt, HD download, photo book and a Skype-call-with-the-lead-actress for $75. Don't miss the opportunity to convert your core demand into a high-revenue product. Get creative with your products and your prices. You'll earn more money and create happy fans who spread the word online.
Now, once you've grown your database and you can monetize your core fans, it's time to look around for distribution partners. If you can prove there is demand for your art, you will have traditional distribution opportunities. But long-term success requires reversing the common logic:
Direct-to-Fan is NOT the last resort. Direct-to-Fan is the foundation of your career. Think about this way: Imagine your career is a ladder.
Each rung represents more audience paying attention to your work. Which rung are you on? For the sake of example, let's say the ladder has 100 rungs. On rung 100 is Steven Spielberg, smiling down from the top. At rung zero is every first-time filmmaker just trying to get a project made. At rung 25 is someone like Miranda July (one of my personal favorites) and at rung 75, someone like Kevin Smith, who has a rabid fan base and relative autonomy.
Everyone starts at the bottom. From rung zero to 25, Direct-to-Fan will likely be 100 percent of your income. You won't have traditional distribution offers, so you'll do it all yourself. If you do it well, your audience will grow and you'll move up the ladder. Once you start climbing, you become much more attractive to potential partners.
In the middle, you'll mix it up. From rung 25 to 75, the mix of Direct-to-Fan income and other distribution deals will vary depending on the project.
You'll have to license rights to move much past 25, but you'll do it in a way that allows you to retain your control of your core audience and monetize them via premium products you control.
At the top, you're really in control. If you make it to rung 75 or higher, Direct-to-Fan will start trending back toward a larger percentage of your revenues.
You'll have a dedicated, connected following, and you'll want as much creative control over your fan experience as possible. Read Kevin Smith's Red Statements for a perfect example of this return to Direct-to-Fan in action. Sure, he's done deals, too… but on his terms and with his audience as the top priority. In music, we're seeing well-run D2F campaigns with top-tier artists earn 15 to 35 percent of gross revenues — and the lion's share of the profits. There is no reason those numbers can't be replicated in film. And during this year.
And there are many more practical examples out there, too. The film Broke* is giving away its soundtrack to grow its database. NYC filmmaker and musician Cory McAbee opted to take his serialized film Stingray Sam out exclusively via Direct-to-Fan, and he gets you hooked on the first two episodes before asking for your money.
Ed Burns has killer posters and t-shirts bundled with downloads of his new film Newlyweds, and William Morris and Barry Ptolemy have created a killer Direct-to-Fan experience for the Ray Kurzweil doc Transcendent Man.
With a database of fans, you can raise money on Kickstarter, sell premium products and ticket your own event screenings with a director Q&A. Like Kevin Smith is doing RIGHT NOW, TODAY. But most importantly… you'll be able to RETURN to the same group of core fans for all of your future products. Build an audience. Build a brand. Always compare the money you're offered to the value of your fan database down the line.
You may find that you're better off keeping your film under your control than doing that no-advance, all-rights distro deal. Especially if we're talking about short films!
Now, I know I'm getting long-winded, so I'll wrap it up.
Here's the summary: It's time to make Direct-to-Fan Marketing the foundation of your career. It's time to assume your films will be marketed by you, not acquired in a Sundance bidding war. It's time to start building a database of core fans that you own and nurture throughout your career.
Stop calling it Self-Release. Stop calling it DIY Distribution. It's called Direct-to-Fan Marketing, and it works for filmmakers at every rung on the ladder.
Direct-to-Fan Marketing is:
- Growing your email, Facebook and Twitter database by giving away free downloads and encouraging sharing
- Maintaining a great website that sells merch, downloads, memberships and tickets directly
- Owning your fan marketing data, and using it to raise money and promote your work throughout your career
Good Direct-to-Fan Marketing will make you more attractive to distributors. But you may find yourself telling them "No, thanks." Your audience is your biggest asset. If you sell it, make sure you get full price.
Questions? I'm accessible. Let's chat.
VP, Product & Marketing
Bob Moczydlowsky has been kind enough to offer HOPE FOR FILM readers his service for free:
The code HOPEFORFILM entitles you to three free months of Topspin Plus, the most powerful direct-to-fan platform on the planet.
Topspin empowers you to:
- Promote your film across websites, social networks and mobile devices
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Off-road state park near Livermore debated
State parkland in East Bay is now open, grassy hills
State park officials plan to turn a swath of hills southeast of Livermore - regarded by conservationists as historic and ecologically sensitive - into a motorcycle park, even as off-road vehicle use has declined and the state struggles to keep traditional parks open.
The state is midway through the planning process to open the 3,400-acre Tesla area between Livermore and Tracy for off-road use by motorcycles, ATVs and other vehicles. The parcel would be a significant expansion of the adjacent Carnegie State Vehicular Recreational Area.
The move by the state has angered conservationists but given hope to off-road vehicle enthusiasts.
"I can't imagine how we as a state can allow this area to be destroyed, just as the Carnegie area has been destroyed," said Celeste Garamendi, sister of Rep. John Garamendi. Her husband's family has run a cattle ranch near the Tesla area for more than 100 years.
"I live in this area. I work in this area," she said. "I know how special and unique this area is."
Off-road enthusiasts say that having places to ride is essential to their activity and that there are few places left to build motorcycle parks.
In all, the state owns eight off-road vehicle parks. Off-road enthusiasts can also ride on some stretches of federal Bureau of Land Management property, but those areas are diminishing due to increasing environmental regulations, said Jerry Fouts, a Northern California director of the American Motorcycle Association.
"There's fewer and fewer places to ride. Environmentalists have the upper hand, and we know that," he said. "No one likes to recreate on screwed-up land. But the Tesla park will be something everyone can be proud of."
Rugged grassland
Tesla is a steep, rugged grassland in the southeast reaches of the hills between Livermore and Tracy. It's been a gathering point for American Indians, a critical pass for Spanish explorers, a cattle ranch and the site of a rowdy mining town.
These days it's fenced off to the public as the state completes its environmental impact report on the project. But inside the fence, it's home to mountain lions, snakes, hawks and tule elk, forests of native oaks and seasonal creeks.
It's also part of an open-space corridor connected by private ranches, federal land and regional parks stretching from Mount Diablo to Sunol. Its loss would be devastating for open-space users and wildlife, including several endangered species reported to live in the area, environmentalists and others said.
"You turn on the motor of an ATV or off-road motorcycle and the impacts last in perpetuity," said John Icanberry, a retired biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who lives in the region, known as the Tri-Valley area. "It splinters the landscape. It cuts the habitat into pieces."
The effects of off-road vehicles are extreme, he said. They crush underground animal burrows, flatten vegetation and disrupt wildlife. But the most harmful element is the soil destruction, leading to erosion and greatly diminished water and air quality. A landscape could take centuries to recover, he said.
A 2007 study by the U.S. Geological Survey described the effects of off-highway vehicles on soil, watersheds and habitats as "diverse and potentially profound."
The Carnegie park is a stark example. The areas where riders can veer off trails are barren, dusty and devoid of vegetation.
Randy Caldera, acting superintendent of Carnegie, promised that Tesla would be better maintained.
"The thing that's killing us is that in 1980 when Carnegie opened, they basically opened the gates and let motorcycles in," he said. "That's not going to happen at Tesla. It's not going to be a free-for-all. The question is, how do we convince the environmental community of that?"
Exact plans for the Tesla property have not yet been determined, but Caldera said Tesla's sensitive historic and natural areas would be protected.
Tesla and Carnegie are the names of mining towns that thrived in the hills in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The town of Tesla, like the car, was named after the electrical engineer who helped invent the alternating current. Carnegie was named after the brick factory that dominated the town.
But long before the area was filled with miners and their families, it was a hub for Native Americans and the Spanish. For the Ohlone and other tribes, the Tesla area was a quick route between the Central Valley and the Bay Area, easier than the Altamont Pass just to the north, according to the Livermore Heritage Guild.
The area also caught the attention of the Spanish. The Anza expedition of 1776, a group of about 200 Spanish soldiers and families who set out to explore and settle in California, traveled through the Tesla area as it made its way through the East Bay and beyond. The Anza Trail, which is now part of the National Park Service, passes through the Tesla property. An old stagecoach road does as well.
Coal boom
In the late 1800s, coal was discovered in the hills, and boomtowns sprouted overnight. At its peak, 1,500 people called the Tesla area home, more than lived in Livermore at the time, according to Anne Homan, Livermore's city historian.
But in the 1910s, the mining companies went bust, and that was the end of Tesla. All that remains are a few building foundations, mine tunnels and piles of tailings.
For the next eight decades, Tesla was used for grazing cattle and pretty much reverted to its natural state.
Enter the California State Parks, which purchased the property in 1998 in hopes of expanding the Carnegie motorcycle park.
That plan has endured despite declining usage of Carnegie. According to a 2011 State Parks report, the motorcycle park attracted 144,000 visitors in 2003, 95,600 in 2007 and 92,000 in 2008. A busy weekend now brings in between 900 to 1,000 people, Caldera said.
By comparison, the demand for hiking and picnicking appears to be increasing. Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve near Antioch, for example, attracted about twice as many people as Carnegie last year. That park offers hiking trails, picnic areas and a visitor center, but no off-road vehicle use.
State parks officials' rationale for expanding Carnegie is that the California Public Resource Code mandates the expansion of the state's off-road recreational facilities. Money for the expansion is coming from the off-road division's own special fund, which draws its revenue from off-road park entrance fees, surcharges paid by off-road vehicle owners and other sources. In 2012-13, that fund contained about $67 million.
Those funds can legally be used only for off-road parks and recreation, such as the expansion of Carnegie, even though the parks department's budget problems have threatened other parks with closure. Officials were able to keep parks open with the help of private donations.
Hundreds of off-road advocates from around the country have pressured the state to move forward with the Tesla plan, saying the only state off-road vehicle park in the Bay Area is in desperate need of expansion as the population grows and the public's interest in extreme sports increases.
"It's a beautiful trail-ride area," said Amy Granat, executive director of the California Off-Road Vehicle Association. "It's not exactly pristine. I wouldn't compare it to Yosemite. It's often hot, dusty, windy - it's the perfect place to put a motorcycle park."
Minimizing impact
Fouts of the American Motorcycle Association says that with a larger park like Tesla, motorcyclists will be spread over a broader area, thereby minimizing the overall impact. The park will also be heavily regulated to prevent damage to historic or especially sensitive areas, and riders will stay on the trails, he said.
Environmentalists, meanwhile, would like to see Tesla preserved for hikers and wildlife. Ideally, they say, the Tesla property would come under the purview of the East Bay Regional Park District, which already owns several large parcels in the area.
The district offered in 2008 to buy Tesla outright or manage it for the state. That didn't sit well with the state's Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission, which fired off a letter Oct. 15 essentially telling the park district to mind its own business.
Commission Chairman Paul Slavik said the park district appeared to be "attempting to decide the future of an existing park within the California State Park system."
Bob Doyle, the East Bay parks director, said Tesla would be a natural fit for the district, which is seeking to protect ridgetops throughout the East Bay.
"But we have no interest in fighting the state over it," he said. "If the state decides to do something else with the land, then sure, we'd like to talk to them."
The state's environmental impact report is expected to be completed by the end of 2013, ultimately facing approval by the Off-Highway Vehicle Commission.
"If all goes well, we hope to roll out something to the public next year," Caldera said.
Public comment
To comment on the state's environmental impact report on the proposed motorcycle park at Tesla, southeast of Livermore, go to carnegiegeneralplan.com.
Carolyn Jones is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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GOP's Georgia fear: Another Akin
One likely candidate called Todd Akin "partially right" about "legitimate rape." Another said evolution and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell." A third accused the Obama administration of practicing "shakedown politics" after BP set aside $20 billion to compensate victims for damage from the Gulf oil spill.
The Republican primary for the open Senate seat in Georgia is shaping up to be a free-for-all, drawing interest from some of the most conservative members of the House and raising concerns that a race to the right could put in play what should be a safe seat. It comes as the party tries to head off the problem that cost it dearly in 2012: nominating candidates who say things so off-putting to mainstream voters that they blow the election.
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Democrats acknowledge that Georgia's rightward tilt gives Republicans the edge in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss. But they're hopeful that a candidate in the mold of Missouri's Akin or Indiana's Richard Mourdock emerges from a bare-knuckled Southern brawl.
( Also on POLITICO: 2012 blame game: Will it ever end?)
Republican-minded business leaders in the state are clamoring for a more establishment-friendly alternative to enter the race.
National outside groups such as American Crossroads and the Club for Growth, meanwhile, are watching to see how the field shakes out before deciding if and how they get involved. It's unlikely that any candidate will win a majority in the primary, in which case the top two finishers would square off in a runoff. The real fireworks might not start until then.
Facing the high probability of a serious primary challenge from the right, Chambliss announced last month he would not seek a third term next year. Within hours, the jockeying was under way.
Rep. Paul Broun, the only officially declared candidate, has a history of incendiary comments that could plague a statewide bid.
"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell," he told a church group last September. "And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior."
( Also on POLITICO: GOP smackdown: Wonks vs. pols)
Rep. Phil Gingrey, a doctor seen as very likely to run, offered medical justification for Akin's claim that the body has ways of preventing pregnancy after the trauma of rape.
"We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate,'" Gingrey said in January.
After initially claiming he was misconstrued, Gingrey has since said he deeply regrets the comments.
Mitt Romney carried Georgia with only 53 percent of the vote. As points of comparison, the Republican presidential candidate won both Indiana and Missouri — where GOP candidates blew Senate races — with 54 percent.
So while it's clearly a tall order for Democrats, it's not impossible.
Georgia's large African-American community and growing Latino population give Democrats confidence that the state will become increasingly competitive over the next few years. That's a big part of why Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has already passed on this Senate race, settings his sights on the Senate in 2016 or governor in 2018.
On the Republican side, everyone is watching the potentially formidable Rep. Tom Price. The former chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee has promised to make a decision in May. But many, including a former adviser, say Price is reluctant to relinquish his perch in the House.


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Not Just NaMo or RaGa, 2014's Wrestling Bouts Will be Between Many PM Aspirants
The PM copyright has expired. Copycats rule. Narendra Modi is no longer the only declared Prime Ministerial candidate of a political party. The liege lords and ladies of the AIADMK, TMC, SP and Congress have begun confabulations with their paladins to declare themselves as contenders for India's top job. Surprisingly, NaMo's monopoly was effectively challenged by none other than one considered his natural ally in the run-up to the 2014 elections. Last week, the general council of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) unanimously passed a resolution that the party would like to see its supreme leader, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, become the Prime Minister. Their justification in staking the claim was purely regional. The party claimed that only a Tamilian could protect the interests of other Tamilians. Though Jaya has been speaking extensively on national issues and taking on the UPA government even on international subjects, it was for the first time that the AIADMK invoked local sentiments to project her as the most suitable candidate to lead the nation. If the BJP leaders are to be trusted, Jaya's surprise gauntlet has shocked the party. Tamil Nadu sends 39 MPs to the Lok Sabha as against 26 from Gujarat. Like NaMo, Jaya is also known for her decisiveness, economic liberalism and running her state with an iron hand. She believes in free market economy and single window clearances for all projects. Her second term has been the most effective, and she has been delivering on many fronts. The similarity between 63-year-old NaMo and 65-year-old Jaya doesn't end there. Both have successfully decimated their opponents in the state. The Southern Queen may not be crisscrossing the nation and addressing choreographed rallies like her Gujarat counterpart yet, but she has been making the right noises about federal character, UPA's faulty economic policies while keeping away from controversial issues.
It wasn't just Jaya's candidature, which disturbed the high stakes game of selecting India's next Prime Minister. L K Advani left tongues wagging with his unilateral declaration to contest Lok Sabha elections again from Gandhi Nagar in 2014; and no one has, till now, advised him not to enter the fray. Of late, Advani is seen more often in NaMo's company, but his presence in the next Parliament would mean new partnership options would open for current and future allies. In case the NDA falls short of the magic number of 200 seats, Advani would be the front runner for Prime Minister, not NaMo.
While the NDA is busy putting its house together, the Congress and non-NDA parties have also started thinking in terms of how to challenge Modi. The buzz in political circles is that those who expect to win 30-plus seats will be the ones to declare their national intentions. They have already announced their distaste to partner with either the Congress or BJP. This triumphant trio is Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati and Jayalalithaa. Each of them is capable of winning more than 30 seats on their own in their states. Jayalalithaa's singularity is that she enjoys the Left's support and maintains good relations with Sharad Pawar, Naveen Patnaik and Chandrababu Naidu. Opposition to her will come from North Indian leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nitish Kumar and even Mamata. Jayalalithaa enthusiasts expect that she would need to muster the support of over 80 MPs from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to be Prime Minister. Odisha, Maharashtra and the NDA may extend support to her. In another scenario, the Congress and Left may prop her up to keep the NDA out of power. The nation may see over half a dozen visibly declared candidates on the oratorical skyline by the time the dates for the General Elections are announced. Some of them will try social engineering by forging caste and religion. Others could seek an ideological mandate. Once again, the choice of India's Prime Minister is no longer limited to candidates from the two national parties. In 1996, regional outfits favoured the regional satrap H D Deve Gowda because none of the national leaders such as V P Singh or Jyoti Basu were willing to accept the responsibility of being a precarious Prime Minister.
But the Congress hasn't given up on its claim to govern India for the third consecutive term. Since it has announced the date of the AICC session in advance, speculation is rife about Rahul Gandhi being formally declared as the party's challenger to NaMo. The 41-year-old inheritor has decided to take the plunge and lead the party from the front. He may not be formally declared the party's prime ministerial candidate before the elections. But the Congress could also project a Dalit or a woman with clean record as the party's face for 2014. Rahul's only objective and mission is to block the BJP from becoming the largest single party and stop the relentless advance of the NaMo juggernaut in its tracks. The young Gandhi and his team are convinced that their party's future lies not in the gains it makes in 2014 but in its ability to demolish NaMo's larger-than-life hologram. Hence, they are thinking of even supporting a non-Gandhi Congressman as Prime Minister or perhaps adopt one from a non-BJP coalition. Taking a cue from its mauling in Delhi and elsewhere, the Congress plans to retain and woo the minorities which stood by it in the Delhi Assembly polls. 2014 is as much a make or break opportunity for RaGa as it is for NaMo. Do not expect a war of ideologies. Welcome to the desi political ring of Indian-style wrestling between home-grown opponents. The one with the most innovative manoeuvres will be the victor.
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Humans of HOKA: Kurt Madden
Adversity gave the top age-grouper the tenacity and resilience that transformed him from street fighter to world champion triathlete.
"Dysfunctional" and "daunting" only begins to describe Kurt Madden's start in life.
"My parents never graduated from high school. Between my mom and my dad, there were nine marriages. I was in a dysfunctional home my entire childhood. I ran away twice. At the age of five, it was determined that I had an arrhythmia in my heart and the doctors gave me six months to live. For the first 20 years of my life, all I knew was one word — adversity. And the only way I could overcome adversity was survival of the fittest. So when I grew up in an inner-city environment, I just knew I had to be a street fighter. It's as simple as that. I was the crazy guy you didn't want to mess with."
Kurt "Mad Dog" Madden, a lifelong educator, is now a well-regarded triathlon coach, the CEO of four Southern California non-profits and an IRONMAN All World Athlete. Madden competed in this year's IRONMAN World Championship brought to you by Amazon—38 years after his seventh-place finish in Kona. After winning his age-group (60-64) for the previous two years, he ended up finishing a still-impressive 15th.
"As an athlete and a coach, I learned what the sport brings to a person used to overcoming adversity and realized it made me a perfect candidate for triathlon," says Madden. "No matter how many times in my life I get knocked down, I'm going to get back up. That's what I try and share with my athletes."
Born and raised in San Diego in a tough home environment, Madden pulled himself out of his given circumstances through self-improvement and sheer strength of will. He swam competitively in high school, graduated, and went on to earn a master's degree in exercise physiology. He then found his niche for endurance sports in college through his participation in swim-run-swim events.
"The organizer of these swim-run events, Tom Warren, approached me and showed me a newspaper article describing how he'd won the 1979 IRONMAN event in Oahu the previous year. He said, 'I know you can run and bike and swim, so what do you think?' I was just 21 at the time, but I raced home and asked my wife what she thought. She said we should go for it. I showed up in Oahu and there's Dave Scott, Bob Babbitt, Diana Nyad and Jim Lampley who was there with ABC Wide World of Sports. I thought it was kind of a Woodstock deal—one and done. In the race I came out near the front in the swim, hung in on the bike and the run and finished seventh."
That race catapulted Madden into a life of triathlon competition and when the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run events weren't enough, he turned to 100-mile races through Leadville, Colorado, 24 Hour Run National Championship races and Ultramans (a three-day, 320-mile multisport race). Madden says the "mad dog" got into his DNA and never left him. However strong his competitive spirit though, Madden believes in encouraging his fellow athletes whenever he can.
"At the 1995 USA Track and Field 24 Hour Championship (a race where you run as far as you can on a repeated one-mile loop in 24 hours), for some reason I had decided that I wanted to run 140 miles. About six miles into it, I started running with a fellow competitor I connected with. After 23 hours and 56 minutes, he stopped, looked at me and said, 'You have worn me down to nothing. I cannot run another step,' I paused and I said, 'That's quite a compliment.' He didn't know it, but I was actually about to say the same thing. Selfishly, I had a goal and I was 4/10 of a mile from that goal. But he had helped me to get to this point, so I had a moral dilemma. What do you do to make it right? What I decided to do was just stand there and let the clock tick down. I felt that was the right thing to do."
Madden did, however, go on to beat the same athlete the following year in the same competition. The street fighter spirit is always there, but as Madden would put it, he prefers to "speak softly and carry a big stick." Given his accomplishments — three-time top ten finishes at the IRONMAN World Championship and two wins at the Ultraman Triathlon World Championshipdistance—Madden hasn't been afraid to use the stick when necessary.


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Today sites around the internet are either shutting down for 24 hours, or have altered their logos in some way to draw attention to two bills pending in the U.S. Legislature this year.
In the U.S. House is the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, (Read more: Govtrack.us / Wikipedia) and in the Senate is its companion bill, Protect Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA (Read more: Govtrack.us / Wikipedia). These bills aim to curb online copyright infringement, but opponents claim they are written in a way that will impede free access to information on the Internet.
Wikipedia claims the policing burden placed on websites such as itself by the bills would force these websites to cease operation rather than continue.
The Motion Picture Association of America is sponsoring the bills as a way to prevent piracy of American movies by foreign countries.
Before the Internet, if you wanted to know something, you called a library and asked a "Reference Question." Many people still do, and not just the technology holdouts. Even those who are Internet savvy are sometimes not research savvy.
Teachers are now having to drill into children, sources other than Wikipedia.
Free access to information is something we have come to rely on in the modern age.
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MySpace Cuts 300 International Jobs
MySpace on Tuesday announced that it will reduce its international staff by 300 workers.
The news comes a week after the social networking site reduced its U.S. workforce by 30 percent.
MySpace's international headcount will drop from 450 to 150 staffers. London, Berlin, and Sydney will become the primary regional hubs for MySpace's international activities. The company will also consider a "possible restructure" of existing offices in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Sweden, and Spain.
MySpace China and the company's joint venture in Japan will not be affected.
"With roughly half of MySpace's total user base coming from outside the U.S., maintaining productive and efficient operations in our international markets is important to users worldwide and our immediate financial strength," MySpace chief executive Owen Van Natta said in a statement. "As we conducted our review of the company, it was clear that internationally, just as in the U.S., MySpace's staffing had become too big and cumbersome to be sustainable in current market conditions."
The changes are intended to "transform and refine our international growth strategy," Van Natta concluded.
Van Natta, who previously served as chief revenue officer and vice president of operations at Facebook, was named MySpace CEO in April.
Last week's U.S. layoffs brought the total number of domestic staff to 1,000 workers.


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The lament of the prophet Habakkuk, as he decries the violence, strife and clamorous discord in his day, seems to have a timelessness to it. During the hot summer, several U.S. cities saw a spike in gun violence and senseless deaths. Public discourse has grown more rancorous as marchers promote competing visions for what would make for a peaceable world.
Habakkuk wants God to intervene and put an end to the distress of his time. God's answer to Habakkuk is an order to write down the vision clearly upon tablets so that everyone can read it readily. The prophet is reminded that although it seems long in coming, the vision of God's peaceable reign will surely be fulfilled. He must be patient and stay faithful.
The divine directive to Habakkuk is an excellent reminder to us that no transformative change ever comes without groundedness in the vision of God's peaceable reign. It is not enough, however, to wait patiently and persistently keep the vision alive in one's own mind and heart. God directs the prophet to write down the vision, not only to keep it before his own eyes as a way to bolster his own flagging hope, but also to publicize it so that it boosts communal faith and committed action.
It is precisely when things seem at their worst that the prophet is called to articulate the vision. In the struggle for civil rights in the United States, it was when the backlash against Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for an end to racism was most intense that he publicly proclaimed his dream for equality and freedom for all. Likewise, it is from prison, where Paul is suffering great hardship, that he writes the vision for Timothy, reminding him that God has given him the power of love, self-control and strength. By stirring this gift into flame, he can overcome any fear or cowardice in giving testimony to the Gospel.
Not unlike Habakkuk, the disciples in today's Gospel want Jesus to fix things by giving them more faith. Jesus reassures them that they already have faith enough to transform what seems utterly immovable. A mulberry tree has a deep and extensive root system and is extremely difficult to uproot and replant. It is an apt image for deep-rooted systems of injustice and violence. A mustard seed, by contrast, is tiny, but the plant spreads like wildfire and is also nearly impossible to eradicate. Disciples who feel puny in the face of massive systems of injustice have all they need to do the transformative work toward fulfillment of Jesus' vision of the reign of God. Jesus encourages them by saying not only that they have all the faith they need, but that it is by their persistent, day-in, day-out service that the transformation of seemingly intractable systems comes about. Moreover, just as fieldwork and table service were simply what was required of a slave in Jesus' time, so faithful service on behalf of the Gospel is what is expected of disciples. One way in which the analogy limps, however, is that discipleship is a freely chosen service, not an imposed servility embedded in an unjust system.
The final verse of today's Gospel asserts not that faithful servants are "unprofitable" (NAB), "worthless" (NRSV) or "useless" (NJB), as some translations render the Greek achreioi. Rather, the word means literally that they are "without need." Proclaiming the empowering vision of God's reign and rendering faithful service to bring it about satisfies every want and need of disciples.


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