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Patrick O�Neill can remember when he drove himself to school, spoke articulately and walked without help. Those days are long gone.
FORT WALTON BEACH � Patrick O�Neill can remember when he drove himself to school, spoke articulately and walked without help.
Those days are long gone.
O�Neill was hit by a drunken driver in 1972. Since then he has lived with a brain injury that has affected his life and his family�s.
Traumatic brain injuries know no bounds. They can occur from vehicle accidents, falls and strokes.
There also is a local support group to help the victims and those who care for them.
�With these types of injuries there�s a real need for socialization and support from people who understand,� said Martha Bayer, the volunteer facilitator for Brain Injury Connection. �These survivors have new personalities and abilities, and understanding that can be difficult. With these injuries the survivors remember what life used to be like.
�All of a sudden their life and your life is not what it was yesterday.�
The group meets every Wednesday morning at Trinity United Methodist Church on Racetrack Road in Fort Walton Beach.
Each week, the small room is filled with members who greet each other with hugs, encouraging words and waves from across the room.
Before the meeting, Bayer writes the agenda on the board and the first people who arrive put a table cloth over the table everyone sits around.
Some members walk in on their own, while others need a walker or help from caregiver. But no matter how they arrive, there are smiles and no strangers.
The group starts with the Pledge of Allegiance. Those who are able stand and face the flag. Next, each person shares one good thing that had happened since the last meeting.
Jim Castlebury tells the group he attended a Bible study he enjoyed. Tammy Zettlemoyer had a good lunch at Denny�s with her mother. Dave Mulvahill worked on his lawn.
�This group lets me know that I�m not alone. Sometimes even small things like taking initiative or planning is hard,� said Mulvahill, who suffered a stroke years ago. �Unless you�ve walked down this road you don�t know how precious life is, and in an instant it can be gone, taken in a moment.�
Castlebury, who fell seven stories at work, agreed.
�We can share similar experiences,� he said. �It means a lot that you can talk to someone who understands your situation.�
Bayer started the group 18 years ago after her son suffered a brain injury in a ski accident.
The weekly meetings can last from two to four hours. No words of anger or judgment are spoken. Everyone is normal. They are patient with those who can�t speak quickly and are encouraging whenever a member speaks, even if it�s just someone saying they are happy to be there.
The meetings usually end with members eating lunch together.
�Everyone has a different story, but they are all dealing with something similar,� Bayer said. �What we do is look at what�s left, what we can work with and develop a quality life now.
�We take each other as is and become a family.�
For more information about Brain Injury Connection, call 244-1310 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Angel McCurdy at 850-315-4432 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @AngelMnwfdn.


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Monday, 28
Library Closed for Independence Day
The Library will be closed on Saturday July 3, Sunday July 4, and Monday July 5 in recognition of Independence Day. We will resume normal hours on Tuesday, July 6. Enjoy your holiday.
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Monday, 21
Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: Cassandra's Sister by Veronica Bennett
Recommended by: Kara, Young Adult Librarian
Cassandra's Sister is a charming, fictional account of young Jane Austen. It follows Jane for nearly a decade as she travels the countryside, attends balls, experiences romance, and eventually writes novels based on her experiences. This young adult novel is a must read for Jane Austen lovers of all ages.
Want more reading suggestions? View previous staff picks.
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Tuesday, 15
Library Receives CLEF Grant
The library recently received a $14,300 CLEF grant from the State Library. We used the grant to purchase the following materials for the library:
Visit the State Library website to learn more about the CLEF grant.
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Regular viewers of "Lou Dobbs Tonight," on CNN, might be surprised at the venue that Dobbs chose for lunch not long ago: the Grill Room of the Four Seasons, a midtown bastion of the very same political and business "élites" that he denounces daily on his television program. The Four Seasons is the enduring commissary of the Old Guard, where Henry Kissinger waves to the former Citigroup C.E.O. Sandy Weill, there is limo-lock at the side door, and the regulars have their checks sent to the office. Dobbs's Town Car left him at the door, on East Fifty-second Street, and the restaurant's co-owner, Julian Nicolini, embraced him that day as warmly as when he welcomed, among others, Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman and C.E.O. of the Blackstone Group; Nelson Peltz, the C.E.O. of Trian Partners; Edgar Bronfman, Sr., the former chairman and C.E.O. of Seagram; and Mortimer Zuckerman, the real-estate developer and publisher of the News. Nicolini led Dobbs to one of five choice banquettes, and Dobbs settled in, looking very much at home.
Dobbs is sixty-one, and his chubby face has a rosy glow. His blond hair is lacquered in place, his black wing tips are impeccably buffed. Other club members having lunch that day—the Nobel Prize winner James Watson, Bronfman, Peltz, the movie producer Harvey Weinstein—stopped at the table to say hello. It is the kind of welcome that one might have expected for an earlier incarnation of Lou Dobbs—the Harvard-educated anchor of CNN's "Moneyline," which in the nineteen-nineties served as a sort of video clubhouse for corporate America. But, in the past four years or so, Dobbs has been reborn as a populist—a full-throated champion of "the little guy," an evangelical opponent of liberal immigration laws. His hour-long program, which airs at six, features Dobbs in a role that combines Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan. On the air, he boomingly assails the upper management of corporate America for its "outrageous" greed, pay packages, and corruption, its opposition to increasing the minimum wage, its hiring of "illegal aliens," its ties to "Communist China," and its eagerness to send American jobs overseas.
The new Lou Dobbs often surprises those who recall the old Lou Dobbs of "Moneyline." Daniel Henninger, the deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, wrote, "Old admirers are aghast. It's as if whatever made Linda Blair's head spin around in 'The Exorcist' had invaded the body of Lou Dobbs and left him with the brain of Dennis Kucinich," a reference to the left-wing Ohio congressman and former Presidential aspirant. After an angry altercation on the show with James Glassman, a former New Republic publisher and current conservative supply-sider, Glassman said of Dobbs, "How did he transform from a business sycophant to a raving populist?" Glassman's answer was that Dobbs had begun to "demagogue these issues." (In questioning Glassman's economic theories on his program, Dobbs accused him of talking "like a cult member.") As if to answer such critics, Dobbs has recently published a book whose title is almost as long as the menu at the Grill Room: "War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and HOW TO FIGHT BACK."
On the cover, Dobbs is standing—hands in pockets, feet apart—like a sentry protecting the boundaries of decency and the nation. At CNN, alone among the cable network's anchors, he is allowed to express his opinions without borders. "I'm never neutral on any issue that affects the common good, our national interest, and working men and women of this country," he writes. In many ways, Dobbs and Bill O'Reilly, of Fox News, who in 2003 wrote a book entitled "Who's Looking Out for You?," are kindred spirits. Dobbs, who lives on a three-hundred-acre farm in a prosperous part of New Jersey, admires his own capacity for compassion and self-effacement. His audience, he writes, knows that he cares "more about them and their lives than about being invited to the White House or playing golf with C.E.O.s and celebrities."
For most of its first half hour, "Lou Dobbs Tonight" contains more domestic and international news than does each of the three major network's broadcasts, and Dobbs fills the role of the well-informed anchorman. Yet he also teases his audience, with headlines from stories that run in the second half hour, which is dominated by what Dobbs's executive producer, Jim McGinnis, refers to as "brands"—segments with names like "Broken Borders," "Homeland Insecurity," "War on the Middle Class," "Exporting America," and "The Best Government Money Can Buy."
"It's very different from any program you'll see on TV, by intention," Dobbs said, as we ordered the fifty-six-dollar Dover sole. "What you won't see on our broadcast is 'fair and balanced journalism.' You will not see 'objective journalism.' The truth is not 'fair and balanced.' There is a nonpartisan, independent reality that doesn't give a damn, frankly, what two Democrats and two Republicans think about anything or say about anything."
The cable-news universe is relatively small. About eight hundred thousand people watch "Lou Dobbs Tonight" (about nine million watch the "Nightly News," on NBC), and in its time slot it lags behind Brit Hume's show, on Fox, which has about a million and a half viewers. But Dobbs is narrowing the gap, and his news program is one of the handful on cable whose audiences are growing, rather than shrinking. The highest-rated cable news program is "The O'Reilly Factor," on Fox, which averages about two million viewers, and Fox continues to lead CNN in the ratings, with MSNBC a distant third. A program's ranking is affected by the length of time that viewers stay with it, and news shows that do best tend to have opinionated anchors, like Fox's O'Reilly and Sean Hannity; MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, whose audience has increased by two-thirds in the past year; and Dobbs, whose broadcast has drawn twenty-two per cent more viewers in the past twelve months. In October, the network announced that "Lou Dobbs Tonight" would expand from five nights to seven, and Dobbs was named one of CNN's four Election Night anchors.
Dobbs has been with CNN since Ted Turner launched the cable network from Atlanta, in 1980, and both Dobbs and CNN have changed in the intervening years. Turner once liked to contrast CNN with the broadcast networks by saying that "news was the star" and that CNN expunged opinions from its news. Today, CNN heavily promotes its star anchors—particularly Dobbs, Larry King, whose show airs at nine, and Anderson Cooper, who comes on at ten. Cooper regularly travels to trouble spots and shares with viewers his personal responses to situations, and one longtime CNN employee said of his show, "It's almost a fact-free zone. It's a feeling zone."
Unlike Fox, whose identity among its core viewers is often described as a celebration of conservatives, CNN seems to have adopted a "We're on your side" stance as a way to boost ratings. It was encouraged by Dobbs, but also by Cooper, who expressed his outrage at the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, and by Jack Cafferty, in cranky commentaries on Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room." For nine nights in October, CNN ran a series called "Broken Government," as well as two hour-long Dobbs town-hall meetings—the first on the "forgotten middle class," the second on illegal immigration. CNN's ratings improved dramatically, particularly among the most desirable demographic, twenty-five- to fifty-four-year-olds.
Jon Klein, the president of CNN in the United States, told me that when he arrived at the cable network, soon after the 2004 election, there was a perception that CNN would become more like Fox and that news, as he put it, "had to be glitzy and a diversion"—a series of tabloid narratives with constant updates. "No one wanted to cover Natalee Holloway, but they thought they had to," Klein says, referring to the teen-ager who disappeared in Aruba. "That's not said from some moral high ground. It's business. If everyone else on television is doing it, don't you want to do something else?" With its excitable coverage of these stories, Klein believed that CNN "was alienating its audience," and damaging its credibility. From the digital world, where he once worked and where he could chart what people watched and when interest waned, he "learned that people get tired of stories easily." Although CNN hardly ignores the more diverting stories, Klein wanted people at the network to "decide for ourselves what is important," and CNN to distinguish itself through what he called "differentiation."
Klein, who is forty-eight, spent nearly two decades in various capacities at CBS News, where he produced both serious work (overseeing "60 Minutes" and winning a Peabody Award for "48 Hours," which is emphasized in his official biography) and less-serious news (the softening of "48 Hours," which goes unmentioned). In 1999, after leaving CBS, he founded a broadband video company, the FeedRoom, which tells companies how to use video on the Internet.
With a worldwide staff of four thousand, CNN had more reporting resources than any of its competitors. When the tsunami struck Southeast Asia in December of 2004, Klein says, he worked with his CNN international counterpart, and "We gang-tackled the story. We asked correspondents not to do standups but to find real human stories, to do storytelling." He says that he quickly took note of Anderson Cooper's talent for displaying empathy (Cooper replaced Aaron Brown in November 2005), and also decided that Dobbs's program was fine as it was. "I committed 'benign neglect' on Lou," Klein told me.
For some years, CNN has billed itself as "The most trusted name in news." (A recent Pew poll, however, suggested that there is little difference in credibility among the cable news networks; the poll also noted that the number of Americans who said they believed "all or most" of what CNN reported has fallen from forty-two per cent to twenty-eight per cent since 1998.) Under Klein, CNN has, once again, placed greater emphasis on its chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, and given more airtime to John King, the chief national correspondent. After largely abandoning documentaries in recent years, the network plans to produce twenty-four hours in 2007; among the topics that the scheduled programs will cover are Iraq and the environment. After it became clear that CBS would choose Katie Couric to replace Dan Rather as anchor, Klein hired the CBS White House correspondent John Roberts, who had once been in contention for Rather's job. He recruited Time's Baghdad bureau chief, Michael Ware, as well as senior broadcast network-news producers: David Doss, formerly of ABC and NBC, to executive-produce Anderson Cooper; and Victor Neufeld, a veteran of CBS and ABC, to executive-produce Paula Zahn, who anchors the news at 8 P.M. He also replaced "Inside Politics" and the shouting match "Crossfire" with the more news-oriented "Situation Room."
The showman in Klein competes with the newsman and, in the atmosphere of cable news, the showman often wins the contest. "There's no question that Jon Klein wants more edge," a senior CNN employee told me. "Klein is the most personality-driven manager we've had." This employee respects Klein "as a leader" for returning the network to its news roots but worries that Klein is drawing the wrong conclusion from Dobbs's improved ratings. "When we did the 'Broken Government' series," the senior employee said, "in the first conference call he said, 'I don't want preconceived solutions, but, when you reach a conclusion, don't be afraid to express it. I don't want 'He said, she said.' "
CNN's news coverage coexists uneasily with its Dobbs-led populism. Among the viewers who are less than happy with the network's current direction is Ted Turner, who told me, "CNN in the U.S. is quite a bit different than it was. They've gone more into emphasizing personality, and to some degree, particularly in the case of Lou Dobbs, they've encouraged him to promote himself and his own ideas to create a cult of personality to increase the ratings." Turner paused for a moment before adding that Lou Dobbs is "a very talented newscaster, and he's personally a friend of mine. Having said that, I personally think he's gone too far inserting his opinions, for my taste."
Dobbs often describes himself as "a kid who grew up poor" in rural Texas. He was the younger of two sons, born in September, 1945, in Childress (pop. 6,000), not far from Amarillo. His father was a partner in a small propane business, and his mother was a bookkeeper. When Lou was twelve, the propane business collapsed and the family, in search of a better livelihood, moved to a farm in Rupert, Idaho, where Lou attended public schools. His teachers encouraged him to apply to Harvard, from which he graduated in 1967, with a degree in economics.
His first job was working in federal anti-poverty programs in Boston and Washington, D.C. Dobbs recalls, "I decided to go out and make some money. I decided I wasn't changing the world." He then moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a cash-management specialist for Union Bank, earning what was then an excellent salary of thirty thousand dollars a year to come up with ways for companies to manage their capital more efficiently. In 1969, he married a former high-school sweetheart; in 1970, the first of their two sons was born. But Dobbs grew restless at the bank, particularly after spending time with two friends who were journalists, and who, he says, "seemed to be having so much fun." He had been saving money, and moved his family to Yuma, Arizona, where he'd heard about a job as a police and fire reporter for a radio station. His imposing physical presence and booming voice had been quickly noticed, and he soon began working with the affiliated television station. "I found what I really loved to do," he says. His starting salary was seventy-five dollars a week. In the mid-seventies, he was hired as a television anchor-reporter, first in Phoenix and then in Seattle. At the end of 1979, a recruiter called to ask if he would be interested in the all-news cable network that Ted Turner was starting. Dobbs liked the idea of challenging the three broadcast networks, and Turner hired him to anchor a half-hour business newscast. On the Chicken Noodle Network, as CNN was sometimes called then, Dobbs was the youngest anchor. He is the only one from that period who is still with CNN.
Dobbs soon became a member of the network's executive committee, and eventually supervised a staff of more than three hundred, overseeing all of CNN's business coverage. He was also put in charge of business news on CNN.com, and became the president of CNNfn, a business cable network. His main job, however, was to anchor the half-hour "Moneyline" program, which in 1984 moved to New York. In 1998, it was given an additional half hour, and renamed the "Moneyline News Hour with Lou Dobbs," allowing Dobbs to offer a wider range of reports.
Dobbs's personal life had undergone a few changes during these years. In 1981, he divorced his wife. The following year, he married Debi Lee Segura, a sports anchor and a reporter for CNN; in 1988, Segura gave birth to twin girls. Dobbs bought his farm in Sussex, New Jersey, a ninety-minute commute to CNN's studios in Manhattan, where he raised and rode horses, joined a country club, and collected guns. (His two sons, both businessmen, live in nearby Sparta; his daughters were recently accepted at Harvard.)
On the air, Dobbs celebrated capitalism and helped conjure the Internet bubble of the nineties. In the 2000 book "The Fortune Tellers," Howard Kurtz wrote that "Moneyline," like CNBC's "Squawk Box" and much of the financial press, sought "a nonstop flow of tips, touts, picks, and pans to lure consumers with the idea that they just might get in on the Next Big Thing." CNN billed "Moneyline" as the business-news program watched "by more C.E.O.'s than any other," and its audience was so demographically desirable that CNN was able to charge advertisers some of the steepest cost-per-thousand rates in television.
Dobbs flew on a private plane and befriended the well-to-do—among them Henry Kravis, the billionaire and leverage-buyout specialist. He accepted speaking fees to appear at corporate retreats. He was paid to do promotional videos for Shearson Lehman Brothers, Paine Webber, and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and when these relationships became public and Dobbs was asked if this wasn't a conflict of interest, he said, "That is a silly, silly question. Would I do it if I thought I were compromising anything?" Nevertheless, Dobbs said that he would return the money, and insists that his practice today is to donate such fees to charity. Tom Johnson, the chairman and C.E.O. of CNN News Group, expressed full confidence in Dobbs.
Inside CNN, Dobbs was known for his intelligence as well as for having a nasty streak. There were stories of how he verbally abused people, including the time, reported by Howard Kurtz, that he was said to have ordered a short producer to stand on a chair so that he—Dobbs is six-feet-two—could scream at him standing eyeball to eyeball. "It's absolute bullshit," Dobbs says. "It never happened," although he concedes that he was "a very tough editorial manager."
Dobbs met his volatile match in Rick Kaplan, who became CNN's U.S. president in 1997, and by 1999 the two were barely speaking. Dobbs was leery of Kaplan, who had been a news producer at CBS and the executive producer of both "World News Tonight" and "Nightline," at ABC, but who also happened to be a friend of President Clinton's. "I didn't agree with the journalism he was doing," Dobbs said. "In my judgment, he was clearly partisan. He was pushing Clinton stories." Kaplan responded by saying that most of CNN's Clinton stories were negative. He thought that Dobbs was a prima donna—"just a very difficult person to deal with." He added, "Lou doesn't think he's opinionated. He just thinks he's stating the truth."
Their final clash came in May of 1999, while Dobbs was anchoring "Moneyline." CNN, like Fox and MSNBC, had planned to cover a speech that Clinton was giving in Littleton, Colorado, after the shootings at Columbine High School, where two teen-age gunmen killed twelve students and a teacher, and then committed suicide. Clinton's speech fell in the middle of Dobbs's program, and the broadcast cut away to Colorado. Kaplan was watching at home and heard Clinton say to the families, "There's something you all can do," and then the President was cut off and CNN returned to "Moneyline." Dobbs says that he considered the President's speech a staged event, and ordered his producer to return to the studio. Kaplan told me, "Tell me what journalistic reason there was not to cover the President at Columbine soon after the shootings? Everyone else was covering it. . . . There are two sides to almost every story in the world, but not to that one." Kaplan countermanded Dobbs's order, and Dobbs, at that point, looked into the camera and told his audience, "CNN President Rick Kaplan wants us to return to Littleton."
Several days later, Dobbs announced that he was leaving CNN to start a Web site, Space.com, devoted to collecting news about space: technology, astronomy, NASA missions, and more; a co-investor in this effort was Venrock Associates, the venture-capital firm affiliated with the Rockefeller family. "I'd had it," Dobbs says. "I just couldn't take the hassle. I was not having fun." There was another, unspoken reason for his departure: Dobbs wanted to stay on the air at CNN while also investing in Space.com, and CNN officials believed that this would entail a clear conflict of interest. How could he objectively cover the dot-com world when he had a stake in its success? Ted Turner could not persuade Dobbs to back down, and he quit.
Dobbs had other reasons to be unhappy: CNBC, the NBC business cable network, was building an audience throughout the day, and by evening it often had more viewers than "Moneyline." Many C.E.O.s now appeared first on CNBC. Maria Bartiromo, a reporter whom Dobbs had declined to make a correspondent, and who had been given her own show on CNBC, was drawing a large audience. Dobbs was annoyed that Time Warner, CNN's corporate parent, had refused to invest more in CNNfn. Dobbs became the C.E.O. of Space.com, and soon signed on with NBC to produce a financial newsletter, host an NBC radio program, and become a "guest" financial commentator on both NBC and CNBC, apparently allowing him to skirt a non-competitive clause in his severance agreement. At CNN, meanwhile, "Moneyline" continued, but it was slowly losing viewers.
By April, 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst and Rick Kaplan had left CNN. That month, Dobbs announced that he was ending his association with NBC, stepping down as the C.E.O. of Space.com, and returning to CNN to be the anchor and managing editor of "Moneyline." Dobbs says, "I never dreamed I'd miss news. I watched the 2000 coverage of the Presidential campaign, and it drove me nuts not to be able to report that story. CNN approached my agent to bring me back." Jeff Gralnick, the executive producer whom Dobbs had recruited to "Moneyline," in 1999, had a somewhat different version of events. In Electronic Media in May of 2001, Gralnick wrote that because of new competition from CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and Bloomberg News, Dobbs's comeback "is dicey, and achieving success has to be seen as problematic. . . . So why would Dobbs abandon what appeared to be his growing relationship with CNBC and NBC?" Gralnick mentioned the temptation of a high salary, but his conclusion was that "anyone who knows Dobbs or has competed against him or crossed him knows there has to be more to this than just the dollars. Dobbs' return to CNN in the role of 'savior' is the ultimate gotcha." (Today, Dobbs is paid about six million dollars a year by CNN for his TV work and a weekly column that he writes for CNN.com. Space.com never became an Internet triumph, but it remains alive. Gralnick has since become a consultant for NBC News, among others, on new media.)
At first, the impact of Dobbs's return on the program was slight. The ratings for "Moneyline" went up only slightly. Dobbs says that his new, more aggressive tone was prompted by a series of events: corporate scandals (Enron, M.C.I., Adelphi, Tyco); tax cuts that Dobbs felt benefitted the rich at the expense of the middle class, and also generated enormous budget deficits; and, above all, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. After September 11th, Dobbs began wearing a flag pin on his lapel; other changes came gradually.
Dobbs and his producers agreed that the C.E.O. interviews were too soft. "We were doing—I don't want to say puff pieces—but we were just scratching the surface," Jim McGinnis, who has worked with Dobbs for two decades, says. They noticed that their e-mails spiked every time they did pieces on jobs going overseas or on illegal immigration. They began talking about adding more edge to the program. "I was determined to drive the broadcast very hard on issues that affect the quality of life of most Americans," Dobbs says. As the managing editor, he already enjoyed editorial control. He decided that he also needed more freedom to express his views, and says that he went to Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide, who agreed to relax the network's no-opinion strictures. "Take it as far as you want," he says that Walton told him, although viewers had to be informed at the beginning of the program that it would include opinion. Walton confirms this conversation. Opinion is fine, he told me, "if it's clearly labelled. One of the things our critics said years ago was that CNN is the same"—boring. What Dobbs is doing demonstrates that "CNN is not the same."
Five correspondents work for Dobbs, and during the second half hour they usually report on a story that Dobbs treats as a scandal, and that he invariably describes as "outrageous," "alarming," "idiotic," "disgusting," or "sickening." On the air, Dobbs's reporters appear deferential. On August 16th, Christine Romans filed a report describing how the town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, "decided to fight illegal immigration itself" by fining landlords a thousand dollars a day for knowingly renting to illegal aliens and by denying business permits to companies that hire them. In an interview with an A.C.L.U. official who opposed the law, she allowed him a single on-camera sentence; the mayor, who supported the measure, had seven lines and the last word. In a colloquy with Romans in the studio, Dobbs was told that the A.C.L.U. said that if voters were unhappy with federal laws they could always vote for new members of Congress. "Why doesn't that apply, then, to the local community," Dobbs asked, "and why are they interfering there, I wonder?"
"That's a very good point, Lou," Romans said.
On September 12th, Lisa Sylvester reported from rural Taneytown, Maryland, where the town council was debating whether to legislate English as the official language. Two people who favored the proposal were interviewed, and only one opponent. Dobbs, betraying impatience with those who were opposed to such legislation, said, with a smirk, "As we can often say on this broadcast with seemingly greater frequency, 'Only in America.'" On October 2nd, the correspondent Casey Wian began his report from California, "Lou, there are an estimated seven million illegal aliens now working in the United States. Neither they nor their employers have much to worry about in Congress's latest efforts to secure the border." Wian interviewed two critics of corporations who hire illegal aliens and said that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce "refused to provide" a rebuttal, but its Web site says that new regulations would unduly burden employers and would either be "unworkable or cost too much money." Dobbs thanked Wian and concluded the segment by saying that most lobbyists in Washington try to keep everyone from being "overly burdened; that is, everyone except working men and women and their families in this country." CNN's regular correspondents often appear during the first half hour, but not always comfortably. Two days after the midterm elections, at the conclusion of a report from John King, Dobbs looked into the camera and said that he hoped the public had finally "had a bellyful of wedge issues."
"We can hope, John, can't we?" Dobbs said.
"We sure can, Lou," King said, looking uneasy.
The changed emphasis of the program was probably brought about by a mixture of conviction and commerce. With so many choices, McGinnis observes, "there's a blur out there. If you don't stand for something and people don't see what you are, you're passed by. . . . It's a business." By May, 2002, the anniversary of Dobbs's return, the "Moneyline" ratings had doubled. A year later, the title of the program was changed to "Lou Dobbs Tonight." When he was asked to describe his ratings success, Dobbs, anticipating skepticism, said, "You're not going to believe this, but I don't pay a lot of attention to the numbers. I can tell you the trend is up."
Dobbs's actual politics are not easily categorized, and his book, like his nightly program, contains opinions that are both satisfying and infuriating to the right and the left. On Dobbs's office wall is a framed drawing with a note from Kurt Vonnegut: "You, as the only big-time television personality capable of not only feeling but experiencing sorrow for American working stiffs, are our hero." The left, to which Vonnegut belongs, can embrace Dobbs for his opposition to big corporations and his support for a higher minimum wage, national health insurance, and abortion rights. The right likes him for his views on immigration, political correctness, gun control, the United Nations, and all efforts to limit American sovereignty. Dobbs believes that the middle class, which he has described as being composed of two hundred and fifty million Americans, is taken for granted, an argument that could be challenged by those who point to the growth of middle-class entitlement programs, including Social Security and Medicare, or to the unwillingness of elected officials to offend this constituency by curbing entitlements.
Although Dobbs opposes gun control and supports a woman's right to an abortion, he calls these fake "wedge issues" designed "to excite a certain base." He opposes holidays that celebrate a group rather than a nation, and on his program last spring, when a Hispanic-rights activist defended the displaying of the Mexican flag as an expression of ethnic pride, like that exhibited on St. Patrick's Day, he told her, "Let's be clear. I don't think there should be a St. Patrick's Day."
Dobbs sometimes seems oddly formal; he does not roll up his sleeves, and he puts on a jacket when he leaves his office area. In conversation, he does not harbor much doubt. One day, in his fifth-floor office at CNN's Columbus Circle headquarters, I mentioned that Henry Kissinger has said that many of the decisions he made as Secretary of State were sixty-forty choices, meaning that the opposing argument could claim forty per cent of the truth. Did the "rock hard" truths that Dobbs once told me he believed in exclude the possibility that the other side could claim twenty per cent, or even forty per cent, of the truth?
"In free trade?" he said. "In illegal immigration? In education? No. Everything I believe, I believe unequivocally."
Bill Tucker, a correspondent, has worked with Dobbs for twenty-three years. "There are a lot of dumb bastards in the world," Tucker told me. "Lou is one of the smart ones. There's a big difference working for someone who is smart and engaged." On some issues, Dobbs's program has taken strong positions, Tucker acknowledged, adding that the reporters who work for Dobbs "are expected to file reports within that editorial point of view. The opinions are left to Lou." The correspondents try to get all sides, Tucker went on, but on many of the stories "the quote unquote other side often makes it difficult, because they don't want to coöperate if they know I'm with Dobbs."
One of Jon Klein's stated aims has been to persuade the producers of CNN's various programs to widen their vision (he speaks of them climbing out of their "silos")—to make sure that, say, when Anderson Cooper travelled to Africa other CNN programs, from "The Situation Room" to Paula Zahn's broadcast, would welcome his reports. Yet the dispatches filed by Dobbs's correspondents are rarely welcomed. The senior CNN employee says that "other shows are not comfortable with them," because too many of these reports are on Dobbs's pet subjects and the reporters are widely perceived to be Dobbs's acolytes, feeding him the alarming news that he wants.
"I think he's the most influential political reporter of the time, certainly over the last year," Klein told me. "He's someone politicians ignore at their peril." Klein cited Dobbs's response to the Dubai ports deal: for fifteen evenings, Dobbs spoke about "the outrage" of allowing a Middle Eastern country "with ties to the September 11 terrorists" to operate six American ports. Dobbs certainly was not the only person to raise questions, but the resulting furor eventually prompted Dubai to abandon the plan. Slate recently wrote that Dobbs's brand of economic nationalism had been reinforced by the results of the midterm elections, in which many Democrats expressed Dobbsian viewpoints. As for the "illegal immigration" story, Dobbs provided a nightly stage for like-minded members of Congress to express their opinions, an exposure that he believes helped to shift Congress's agenda. Dobbs became so closely identified with the issue that it prompted the humorist Andy Borowitz to offer this fake news story:
**{: .break one} ** In his toughest stand yet against illegal immigration, President George W. Bush today announced that he would move CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs to the United States' border with Mexico. For Mr. Bush, who one day earlier had announced that he was moving 10,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, the decision to dispatch Mr. Dobbs means that the deployment of Guard troops was no longer necessary. **
Dobbs's program also features letters that usually echo his views, as well as poll questions that appear to be slanted, such as "Do you believe illegal aliens who have anchor babies in the United States should be immune from deportation?" In August, ninety-three per cent of those who were asked this question opposed granting immunity. When two U.S. border agents were convicted for shooting at an unarmed man who was smuggling more than seven hundred pounds of marijuana across the Mexican border, Dobbs was incensed. (A jury had found the agents guilty of various counts of assault, among other charges, for firing fifteen shots at the man.) Dobbs returned to this story in many broadcasts. He solicited contributions for the agents. In an August 16th report, he entertained the possibility that "somebody is paying off the government of Mexico" to protect the drug smuggler. He pressed the president of the National Border Patrol Council by asking, "Why isn't there more of a show of support from your members and for other Border Patrol officers?" He inserted the issue into his poll, asking, How many viewers thought this was "a travesty of American justice?" Ninety-six per cent of Dobbs's viewers agreed that it was an outrage.
Dobbs's rabidness provokes his critics. Not long ago, the Times columnist Thomas Friedman told a law-school audience, "And then you have a blithering idiot like Lou Dobbs, in my view, who's using the platform of CNN in a news frame. . . . This is not news. And so we have a political class not making sense of the world for people and that's why the public . . . is so agitated." The Economist said that one might expect "CNN's flagship business-news programme . . . to strive for economic literacy," but, instead, Dobbs greets "every announcement of lost jobs as akin to a terrorist assault"; The Nation accused him of "hysteria and jingoism"; the Southern Poverty Law Center said that Dobbs "failed to present mounting and persistent evidence of anti-Hispanic racism" in his reports on anti-immigration groups like the Minutemen; one Hispanic group urged Time Warner to take Dobbs off the air.
In his new book, Dobbs says of Friedman, "His name calling would bother me more if he were anything more than a tool of international corporatism and a card-carrying member of his own Flat Earth Society." In a weekly column for CNN.com, Dobbs wrote:
**{: .break one} ** I will tell you it does make a fellow think when attacked so energetically and so personally. But in none of the attacks on my position on outsourcing has a single columnist or news organization seen fit to deal with the facts. Number one: We're not creating new jobs in the private sector, and that's never happened before in our history. . . . Number two: We haven't had a trade surplus in this country in more than two decades, and our trade deficit continues to soar. Number three: We've lost three million jobs in this country over the last three years. . . . That seems to me, at least, to be more than sufficient evidence for all of us. **
Some journalists at CNN worry that Dobbs harms the network's credibility. John King says that he likes Dobbs and admires his talent, but adds, "Lou clearly has strongly held beliefs, and he's decided to share these beliefs. In doing that, does it sometimes cause concern in the company? Yes." Klein admits that he wants to "increase the audience's intensity," but not in the way he believes that Fox has. "They have a clear brand identity," he says of Fox, "which does not afford them as many places to go when their viewership dips. They have a definite right-of-center view of the world. Most of their hard-core viewers are older; sixty-five-plus is their median age"—CNN's median age is about sixty-one. "When you define yourself that way, it's very hard to move to the center without alienating the core audience. I'd rather be playing our hand now. By focussing on news, there is much more we can do." In response to Klein's remarks, a senior Fox executive called him hypocritical for saying that he was pushing serious news, when, according to the executive, he was still running soft news and taking CNN "on a hard tack to the left." The executive said of Dobbs, "He has tapped into strong opinion. He'd be good on Fox."
Klein's immediate goals include boosting the ratings of CNN's "American Morning," which has gained viewers but badly trails "Fox and Friends." (CNN's morning program attracts about half a million viewers; NBC's "Today," the leader among the broadcast networks, reaches six million.) And Klein must give some thought to a replacement for Larry King, who is seventy-three, when King retires. "There isn't going to be another Larry King," Klein says. "And it's not clear that we'll have another interview show." There has been published speculation that he might make a bid for Diane Sawyer, the co-anchor of "Good Morning America," who is eager to escape morning television and seems now to be blocked from an anchor chair at ABC, CBS, or NBC. Klein appears interested; they worked together at CBS. "She has a lot of attributes that would help her fit into CNN," he says. She also has a salary of about twelve million dollars, which CNN could not easily justify for a program whose audience is so much smaller.
CNN's challenge is how to balance its credibility with the emotive direction of cable news. "If you're going to fill 24/7, you have to look for other angles after the basic facts," Rick Kaplan, who, until June, was the president of MSNBC, said. Ted Turner takes a different view. He believes that traditional television news, like print media, is at risk. "We're moving into a 'Brave New World,' like Huxley," Turner says, with "a dramatic reliance on wireless." Turner believes that "somebody has to gather the news," and that CNN has held "the high ground." He remembers that, when he started CNN, it was said that the public didn't want twenty-four-hour cable news. "I certainly hope they are able to maintain its position as the world's most important and trusted network," he told me. "That's a hell of an important position to have. If CNN does keep its quality image above all the temptations to become more 'edgy,' I think they have a very bright future. If they go over the line too far, they risk losing their pole position."
Turner recently criticized journalists who fail to convey a sense of "covering the news from an unbiased" perspective. Turner didn't single anyone out, but Dobbs is sure that he was referring to him. Dobbs says that his old friend and former boss "is an American citizen, and he has a right to say what he thinks," but he rejects the journalistic "neutrality" advocated by Turner. According to Dobbs, viewers expect him to take positions, and like his program because he draws attention to issues that are often ignored by the mainstream press. "I hope that every time the government lies, our broadcast grabs them by the scruff of the neck," he says. ♦


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- Reuters had a story about the death of Mickey Rourke' 18-year-old pet chihuahua.
- CBS News reported on cart that transforms into a sleeping tent for the homeless.
- Associated Press told me that Twitter was limiting message length and intending to start testing ways to make money.
- The New York Times informed me about people walking and running in stairwells as a means of keeping fit.
- CNN reported that Lance Armstrong's stolen bicycle had been recovered.
- The Los Angeles Times reported on a city council candidate criticizing a rival for being defense attorney that represented a client who was accused of shooting a sea lion four years ago.
- ABC News carried a story on its website about efforts to produce cola containing cow urine in India.
- MSNBC reported that Starbucks is increasing the products its offers in offers as part of an effort to improve its performance.
Interesting? Yes. Significant? Hardly. Economically valuable enough to get people to pay for the news? Never.
Therein lies the problem. Most news organizations are still stuck in the get-the-attention-of-audiences, entertain-them-with-some-news-in-hopes-they-will-attend-to-serious-news-that advertisers-pay-for mode. They complain about declining audiences and use of news, but they are doing little to add value that makes it worth consumers paying for it themselves or spending time with it.
News as commodity; news for the masses; news that is fleeting; news that doesn't provide significant intrinsic and extrinsic value will never induce readers, viewers, and listeners to pay for it. We are already paying what it is worth—little or nothing.


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This overhead shot captures the gorgeous design and comfortable planning of this stunning poolhouse. A large covered patio sits aside the home with a bar and dining area. On the spacious lawn, geometric pavers turn the grass into an artistic statement.
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As in the living room, the overall kitchen design emphasized visual simplicity and clean lines for a relaxed and uncluttered feel as seen on HGTV's Fixer Upper.
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"I love a bath at the end of the day, so I think Luke was channeling me in here," says Miranda. He paired the fiberglass tub by AKDY with a floating vanity he designed that's topped with black soapstone. Tall mirrors from IKEA look even sleeker with globe pendants hung low in front—since they're see-through, they don't obstruct the view in the mirrors.
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Anyone who needs a quiet spot — whether Miranda's preparing homeschool lessons or one of the kids is playing a computer game — can find it in here. Normally the wire shelves are filled with books and plants, but they got cleared out for an Advent calendar made of gift boxes, with a treat in each one. Ever the retro furniture fan, Luke found the military desk at a thrift store and the chair at a garage sale, then had it reupholstered.
One of Luke's early visions for the house was a matte black kitchen. "It contrasts nicely with wood and makes the appliances blend in seamlessly," says Luke. The cabinets and the island are from IKEA, and he got vintage green pendants from a local flea market to play up the hints of green veining in the black soapstone counters. Industrial-style counter stools from Craigslist provide the perfect place to perch with hot chocolate after playing in the snow.
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Luke and Miranda got a king bed for the first time — their old place didn't have the space — and it's appreciated by everyone. When Luke designed the room, he was going for something unexpected. "I thought the 'Love Always' sign, which I had made as a headboard, was romantic," says Luke. (Yes, it has a dimmer.) The rug, nightstand and dresser are vintage finds.
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This spot off the kitchen, where both meals and schoolwork happen, is bustling all day long. Luke brought in pops of color with yellow chairs by Coavas and a wall hanging by local artist Kate Crowley-Gilbert. "I don't like spaces that seem cold or sterile, so Luke gave every room softness," says Miranda. Here it's a round table (vintage) and a woven pendant (from Candelabra). The wood piece against the wall is a refurbished plant stand, found at Boise Vintage.
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Looking at the offense and the lack of play makers and TD scorers the pick at 1.17 becomes obvious. I'm sure the Steelers would love to pick Tavon Austin. Too bad he won't be there. However the next man up without any major issues or concerns is Tyler Eifert. It's not real sexy but it fills a huge need for now with Heath out and for the future. I like it.


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The Morning Download: How Big Data Matters
The Morning Download comes from the editors of CIO Journal and cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. Send us your tips, compliments and complaints. You can get The Morning Download emailed to you each weekday morning by clicking here.
Good morning and welcome to 2013. Cutting-edge information technologies are changing how Western economies literally fuel their growthRoyal Dutch ShellBP andChevron are leveraging predictive analytics, visualization technologies and automation to reach deep into ocean depths and raise production levels to previously unattainable heights. Shell gave CIO Journal's Steve Rosenbush access to the Noble Bully 1, a new kind of drill ship outfitted with some of the world's most advanced technology, which the company is using to to help extract oil in once-inaccessible regions.
The areas from which these companies are trying to extract resources are inhospitable to say the least – as Shell's current struggles in the Arctic attest – but the new technologies have already helped Shell and others extend the life of oil fields thousands of miles below the ocean surface. Technology has dramatically extended the life of the largest oil field in North America, Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska. BP originally expected to recover about 10 billion barrels of oil, or 40% of the field's capacity, Bruce Williams, BP's Alaska operations manager said. Now the company expects to recover 60%, or 15 billion barrels. Mr. Williams tells CIO Journal technology provides a "way to extend the life of the facility in the safest manner possible."
Why Big Data won't go the way of the pet rock. The term "big data" is being used by many vendors "to describe even the most prosaic reporting" capabilities, writes CIO Journal guest columnist Thomas H. Davenport, leading some to assume the technology will go the way of other passing tech fads. But as the oil and gas exploration example above illustrates, this technology truly represents a "sea change" in business software. "We are moving beyond automating transactions to analyzing the data they generate," he writes. "God knows what terms we will use to describe what we do in the areas of big data, analytics, BI, and so forth, but we will certainly be doing it for the foreseeable future."
Creating more intelligent organizations. CIOs should keep track of continuing research at MIT that could help ensure group collaboration results in better thinking, not worse, writes regular guest columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger. "The Internet has given us the means to leverage collective intelligence to an extent greater than ever before; it has also given us the means to leverage collective stupidity. Fortunately, there is research ongoing into group dynamics that could help business and IT leaders predict the nature of the collaborative groups they empower with technology. And it seems possible for us to create the conditions necessary for collective work to reflect a sum that's greater than the total of its parts, rather than reflecting a most common denominator," he writes.
Antivirus makers struggle to adapt. Consumers and businesses spend billions of dollars a year on antivirus software, but these programs rarely block freshly minted strains because the malware creators move too fast, writes the NYT's Nicole Perlroth. A new study by Imperva, a data security firm, and students from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, is the latest confirmation of this. According to the study, which compared 82 new computer viruses against more than 40 antivirus products, made by top companies likeMicrosoftSymantec, McAfee and Kaspersky Lab, the initial rate at which antivirus products were able to detect new viruses was less than 5%. On average, it took almost a month for antivirus products to update their detection mechanisms and spot the new viruses. And two of the products with the best detection rates — Avast and Emsisoft — are available free.
Cable companies feel heat from faster Internet rivals. Broadband revenue growth has helped cable operators offset a stagnant pay-TV market, but they're falling behind when it comes to ultrafast Internet service, writes the WSJ's Shalini RamachandranGoogle and other companies are building up fiber-optic networks that offer speeds of a gigabit per second, while cable companies are balking at the cost of upgrading their networks. Cable executives say consumer demand for gigabit broadband is lacking, and there are too few applications requiring such speeds to justify more investment in fiber. But some big U.S. cities are setting goals for more access to ultrafast broadband and offering to help offset the cost of laying fiber. John Tolva, Chicago's chief technology officer, said he would bring a gigabit fiber network to Chicago whether the incumbent operators want to build it or not, though he would prefer their cooperation.
TV makers set sights on 'Ultra HD.' TV makers are gearing up to promote "ultra high-definition" televisions at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Such TVs create images using more than eight million pixels, compared with about two million pixels of today's full high-definition televisions. At the moment, however, a major obstacle stands between consumers and sharper pictures: price, writes the WSJ's Daisuke WakabayashiSony andLG Electronics have introduced 84-inch ultra high-definition sets priced at $25,000 and $20,000, respectively.
Intel's Web TV push hits delays. Intel's effort to develop Internet-based TV service and associated hardware is taking longer than expected, in part due to delays in reaching content agreements with media companies, the WSJ's Don Clark and Christopher S. Stewart report. Intel plans to discuss new chips for PCs and mobile devices at CES, but not its TV plans.
Tech firms brace for more scrutiny. Tech companies are bracing for a year of intense lobbying as governments world-wide revisit legislation on issues like consumer privacy and online security, the NYT's Somini Sengupta writes. And a looming question for Web giants will be who takes the reins of the Federal Trade Commission. David C. Vladeck, the director of the commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, has resigned, and there have been suggestions that its chairman, Jon Leibowitz, will step down. The agency is investigating Google over possible antitrust violations and will subjectFacebook to audits of its privacy policy for the next 20 years. Its next steps could serve as a bellwether of how aggressively the commission will take on Web companies in the second Obama administration.
Mobile's path to glory. As the fury with which iPhone users reacted to Apple booting Google Maps for its own inferior offering reveals, so-called "discovery" tools are important to determining which mobile platform dominates in the years to come, reports the WSJ's Rolfe Winkler. So far Google, with its search engine expertise and a vast data library, including assets from Zagat and Frommer's, stands poised to deliver increasingly sophisticated tools that offer users guidance beyond the quickest way to the interstate. Recently Google launched a predictive tool called Google Now for its Android OS. Users give the tool access to their location, email and calendar. In return, it provides useful information before they have even asked for it. Apple has massive third-party development support for its iOS devices, but third-party apps don't let Apple control its own destiny, he writes. The company may still feel pressure to beef up its own services With $121 billion in cash, Apple could easily boost its investment in data.
The full economic impact of today's technology has yet to hit. Count Paul Krugman, NYT columnist and winner of the 2008 Noble Prize in Economics, as a believer in the power of Big Data and other technological innovations to fuel economic growth. He sees machines playing a larger role in performing human tasks as technology, such as speech recognition, continues to improve. Of course, smarter machines "may make higher GDP possible, but also reduce the demand for people — including smart people." In the future, wealth gains will go to the owners of the smarter machines. "And then eventually Skynet decides to kill us all, but that's another story," he writes.
Banks fight 'password creep.' The value of the password as a security mechanism has been eroded by a proliferation of malware that can intercept them, and a preference on the part of users to opt for easy-to-remember convenience over security, reports John Adams of American Banker. This has led a number of financial institutions to explore new ways to authenticate users, including using smartphones to allow people to identify themselves using biometrics such as voice or facial recognition.
Huawei partner offered H-P gear to Iran. An Iranian partner of telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies was behind efforts to sell 1.3 million euros worth of H-P equipment to Iran's largest mobile operator. The deal, which ultimately failed to develop, still raises questions about the China-based company which has been trying, in the face of resistance from the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, to do more business in the U.S., reports Reuters's Steve Stecklow. Washington has embargoed the sale of U.S. technology to Iran.
Pressure builds on FAA to open up device usage. Dealing with FAA resistance to allowing people to use their devices during takeoffs and landings is "like arguing with a stubborn teenager," writes the NYT's Nick Bilton, who says the agency has no hard proof that such usage can harm a plane's avionics. Recently the FCC and Sen. Clair McCaskill (D., Mo.) have stepped into the fray, telling the FAA to drop the restriction if it can't show proof of danger.
Damaged lithium batteries pose flight risks. The real potential threat from devices during flight may come not from radio-interfering emissions, but from the lithium batteries used to power smartphones, tablets and others personal electronics. In the wake to two "fiery crashes of jumbo-jet freighters," believed to have been caused or abetted by fires originating in bulk shipments of batteries, the U.N.'s air-safety arm adopted stricter shipping standards set to take effect Jan. 1, report the WSJ's Daniel Michaels and Andy Pasztor. Meanwhile pilot unions and air safety experts are calling for further protections, including strict controls on the number of batteries permitted in individual shipments, along with greater safeguards for damaged batteries and certain oversize versions that power vehicles.
Big in China: Apple's smaller offering. Nearly all models of Apple's iPad mini sold out in China and Hong Kong last week. A Topeka analyst called demand "insatiable" noting that the iPad mini's popularity has already outstripped that of the fourth-generation iPad. AllThingsD's John Paczkowski believes that Apple's latest offering is creating new markets and not cannibalizing sales of the full-size iPad, which is starting to feel the squeeze from Android tablets.
Amazon outage hits Netflix, other AWS customers. Netflix was one of the most prominent customers hurt when Amazon's cloud-based infrastructure service, Amazon Web Services, suffered an outage Christmas Day, reported the WSJ's Greg Bensinger. The latest outage should cause CIOs to look into new options, including cloud-to-cloud continuity services, to prevent mission critical functions running on public clouds from going dark, Forrester Research analyst Rachel Dines told CIO Journal. Short of re-examining its use of outsourced cloud computing, Netflix may not have many attractive alternatives; but CIOs at other organizations may want to evaluate how much it would be worth spending to mitigate an outage of this magnitude. "It's a tradeoff," says Ms. Dines. "You are giving up some level of control when things go wrong, but the cloud allows you to put your resources towards something that you hope will move the business forward."
Google Apps takes on Microsoft in business. Google is muscling in on Microsoft's turf as it wins over more business customers with its cloud-based software. In the past year Google Apps has notched up a big string of wins, including at the Swiss drug maker Hoffmann-La Roche, where over 80,000 employees use the package, and at the Interior Department, where 90,000 use it, the NYT's Quentin Hardy reports. CIO Journal's Rachael King wrote earlier this month that CIOs still want to see some improvements to Google Apps – particularly improved security and integration between Google Plus and Gmail.
New breed of consultants 'sherpa' CIOs to the cloud. Consultants such as Cloud Sherpas, which just raised $40 million in VC funding, help companies migrate data from applications residing locally on computers to Web applications hosted by the likes of Google and Salesforce.com. Paul Lones, CIO of Fairchild Semiconductor, tells CIO Journal he considers those cloud vendors "new business innovation partners," and the new breed of consultants are important facilitators, ultimately allowing him to focus his staff on building systems that help the company better compete versus rivals, such as Intel andIBM.
Microsoft's new tech strategy chief is no stranger to Microsoft. Eric Rudder, stepping into Craig Mundie's shoes, has been with the company since 1988. He takes over the position at a key moment in the company's history, however, as mobile devices are upending the way people conduct business. Rudder's tenure may well be measured by how successfully he rallies application developers to the company's new mobile-friendly Windows 8 operating system. Michael Cherry, an analyst with independent consulting firm Directions on Microsoft, tells CIO Journal the success of Windows 8 "hinges totally on the Windows 8 store and getting app developers over there – even for apps that exist on other platforms, making sure the Windows version is the one that stands out will be key." Without those apps, consumers are unlikely to flock to the new platform, forcing CIOs to turn to technology vendors that appeal more to their employees.
IT Deals: 2012 Was the Year of Social Software.Throughout the year, big corporations were on the hunt for potentially disruptive smaller companies that are socializing IT functions such as messaging. Microsoft led the way in June by acquiring Yammer, a Twitter-like short-messaging service for business use, for $1.2 billion. Microsoft plans to integrate Yammer into its other productivity offerings, a sign that social media is being integrated into the way businesses operate at every level. In other highlights, Facebook bought Instagram and Salesforce.com acquired Buddy Media. Deal volume for publicly and privately held tech companies declined on a global basis to $168.4 billion for the year to date on Dec,. 19, down from $219.5 for the year to date on Dec. 19, 2011. Volume for full-year 2011 was $224.6 billion, 451 Group said.
Delivery problems: online grocer FreshDirect lets domain name expire. FreshDirect failed to do a simple but vital task for an Internet retailer—renew its website address, reports the WSJ's Dana Mattioli. The company's site was unavailable for much of Christmas Day and Wednesday, so instead of customers seeing its trademark orange logo and pitches for fresh vegetables, they were greeted by a generic Web page for domain registrar Network Solutions, saying the freshdirect.com address needed to be renewed. "Renewing a domain name is ecommerce 101," said Sucharita Mulpuru, a retail analyst with Forrester Research. Increasingly, retailers use auto-renew to prevent a gaffe like this from happening, she said.
Job creation in the digital era is job number one. Technology advances are running so far ahead that large numbers of people may not be able to keep up, and the future will bring even more serious economic disruptions, Guest Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes. These technological advances have given rise to a sharply polarized labor market that is hitting middle-income workers the hardest. Policymakers, business, labor and the research community must work together to try to come up with innovative answers to this critical societal question, he says.
Little holiday cheer for Microsoft. The holiday shopping season didn't turn out quite the way Microsoft might have wished. PC sales are still sluggish and while there are lots of tablets running Windows 8, "they have so far failed to emerge from the shadow of competing products from Apple and Amazon and other devices that are being snapped up by holiday shoppers," writes the NYT's Nick Wingfield. Emmanuel Fromont, president of the Americas division of PC maker Acer, tells Wingfield that sales of the company's Windows 8 PCs had been lower than expected. He said the new operating system's unfamiliar design appeared to be making consumers cautious. "There was not a huge spark in the market," he said. "It's a slow start, there's no question." Research firm NDP backs up Fromont's assertion. U.S. stores sold 13% fewer Windows devices from late October -- when Windows 8 made its debut -- through the first week in December, than in the same period last year, it says.
The year in quotes. Between high-profile stock market glitches, the roll-out of one eagerly anticipated operating system, an endless docket of patent battles, accusations of financial improprieties and the usual assortment of disses, challenges and chest-thumping meted out by technology's most influential (and loudest) executives, 2012 was blessed for good quotes. CIO Journal offers some highlights.
Cliff dive averted. Economic disaster has been averted – for now. The House of Representatives voted 257-167 last night to approve legislation to block most of the tax hikes coming due, while postponing the spending cuts. The vote culminated a day of high drama, the Hill notes, as Republican leaders considered and then abandoned a plan to attach big spending cuts to a measure passed by the Senate in the early morning hours Tuesday. The final deal forced Republicans to swallow the first major tax increase in two decades, Politico says and President Obama "was able to at least partially fulfill a campaign promise of raising taxes on upper income Americans."
But the deal disappointed business leaders who had hoped for a grand bargain that could tackle the deficit and ease uncertainty, the WSJ says. And the compromise sets the stage for another showdown because in two months, the delayed $110 billion in spending cuts will kick in – at about the same time Congress will need to raise the debt ceiling. Leaving that in the air is bound to cause anxiety among businesses, potentially crimping hiring, investing and consumer spending, the Washington Post says.
How some companies are preparing for Obamacare rollout. One of the biggest decisions for many companies this year will be what to do about their health benefits, writes the WSJ's Anna Wilde Matthews. Companies trying to blunt the impact on their expenses will have to weigh the possible downsides in morale and recruitment – and potential consumer backlash, as Darden found out when it said it wouldn't expand coverage. Ernst & Young partner Kate Barton touched on some of these issues in a guest CFOJ piece last month. Dots, a women's-clothing chain, projects that its health costs could go up by around a third because of the law. So it's been trimming its costs with moves such as boosting workers' premium contributions and putting new employees into a more basic health plan for their first year.
China manufacturing heats up. Manufacturing activity in China expanded for a third straight month, adding evidence that the rebound will extend into the new year, Bloomberg reports. The PMI report came in at 50.6 in December – just over the 50 mark that indicates expansion. Along with a separate manufacturing gauge yesterday showing the fastest expansion in 19 months, the report reflects increased infrastructure spending that's helping drive a rebound from a seven-quarter slowdown as a new generation of Communist Party leaders takes the nation's reins.
Fallout from U.S.-China audit spat could spread. As U.S. regulators and Chinese authorities spar over the right to oversee audits of companies in China, some U.S. firms could suffer collateral damage, the WSJ's Michael Rapoport writes. Electronics maker Sanmina has major operations in China and is partly audited by KPMG affiliate KPMG Huazhen, which is one of five Chinese accounting companies facing legal action from the SEC over their refusal to turn over audit work papers. If the SEC prevails, the firms could be banned from auditing dozens of Chinese companies listed on U.S. markets. An SEC victory also could affect U.S. multinationals like AppleQualcomm andKimberly-Clark that have major Chinese operations.
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Romney gets B-list treatment at CPAC
Indifference awaits Mitt Romney Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference as he delivers his first public speech since election night.
The base moved on four months ago, and most Republican activists don't really care what their failed nominee thinks any more.
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The apathy that pervades the halls at the Maryland resort hosting the meeting is born not so much from hostility as a desire to turn the page.
( Also on POLITICO: Mitt Romney at CPAC: 'Learn from my mistakes')
During the heat of the 2012 primaries, CPAC is where Romney described himself as a " severely conservative governor" in an ad-libbed effort to shore up his right flank that only raised fresh doubts about his authenticity.
"He's kind of last year. I'm ready for some new blood," said Laurie Pettengill, 55, a former New Hampshire state representative. "The Beltway doesn't want to let go of a lot of things … You shake your head and say, 'C'mon!'"
Pettengill supported Newt Gingrich in the first-in-the-nation primary but backed Romney after he secured the nomination. Now she talks with friends about what might have been.
"People have a little bit of anger that he never went after the jugular. He is a nice gentleman [but] there wasn't enough fight," she said. "Newt just knows how to pounce."
( WATCH: Full CPAC video coverage)
Several attendees shrugged when asked about the Romney address; they preferred to talk about the electrifying back-to-back speeches from Rand Paul and Marco Rubio.
The banner above the podium where Romney will speak declares the theme of the conference: "America's Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives." Romney, who turned 66 on Tuesday, is part of neither.
( PHOTOS: Scenes from CPAC 2013)
"He's getting kind of old now," said Zachary Pohl, 20, an Ohio State University student who backed Romney in 2008 and 2012. "I'm not going to lie about it."
The conference draws a mix of millennials looking to network with like-minded true believers, baby boomers looking to brag about their role in the Reagan Revolution and politicians looking to build grassroots support.
Five years ago, at CPAC in 2008, Romney ended his campaign against John McCain for the GOP nomination.
"CPAC has been very good to Mitt Romney over the years, and this is a chance for him to express his appreciation for all that support," longtime adviser Eric Fehrnstrom emailed in response to a question about the focus of the speech.
The Republican base never felt completely comfortable with Romney. They accepted him only after exhausting the alternatives, from Rick Perry to Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, driven as much by a desire to deny President Barack Obama a second term as anything else.
Romney won the straw poll four of the past six years with the help of operatives quietly maneuvering to bring in supporters. The victory last year, on the same day Romney won the Maine caucuses, helped slow Santorum's momentum coming out of Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado.


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If you're looking for a good, inexpensive point-and-shoot to take to the beach or for a dip in the pool, the Nikon Coolpix S30 is it. Nikon stripped down the shooting options and the interface to make the camera simple for the whole family to use.
Powered by AA batteries, the S30 is basically ready when you are. It can survive for up to 60 minutes underwater to depths of 9.8 feet and can survive minor drops. I wouldn't necessarily call it rugged, but it'll certainly handle more abuse than a regular $120 compact camera.
However, its photo quality and shooting performance are those of an inexpensive camera: it's slow and turns out above-average photos and 720p HD movie clips, but needs lots of light to do so. And, again, the S30 is a very basic camera. If you're after more than just automatic snapshots for sharing online, this isn't the one you want.
|Key specs
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|Price (MSRP)
|Dimensions (WHD)
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|Weight (with battery and media)
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|Megapixels, image sensor size, type
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|2.7-inch LCD, 230K dots/None
|Lens (zoom, aperture, focal length)
|3x, f3.3-5.9, 29-87mm (35mm equivalent)
|File format (still/video)
|JPEG/Motion JPEG (.AVI)
|Highest resolution size (still/video)
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|Image stabilization type
|Battery type, CIPA rated life
|AA (2, alkaline included), 240 shots
|Battery charged in camera
|Storage media
|Bundled software
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The S30's photos are good, basically on par with a decent camera phone. Give it plenty of light and you'll get good-quality snapshots. Given that this camera is designed for outdoor use, that's not such an unreasonable restriction. However, I would not recommend it if you need a camera that performs well in low light. Above ISO 200 there's a significant increase in noise and softness and, unfortunately, it's these higher sensitivities that are needed for indoor and low-light shots. The less light you have, the more noise and softness you get. Again, for shooting in bright, outdoor lighting, the S30 is good, but I wouldn't get it for regular indoor use.
Colors are bright and pleasing from the S30 when shooting outdoors in good lighting. However, Nikon does include simple sliders if you want to adjust brightness, vividness, and hue. It's an extra bit of control I wasn't expecting to find on such a simple camera. (Read more about the S30's photo quality in the sample photo slideshow.)
Video quality -- both in and out of water -- is good enough for Web use. You get quite a bit of noise and artifacts, but at small sizes the results look fine. The zoom lens does not function while recording; there is also a digital zoom, but it gives unpleasant results.
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|Nikon Coolpix S30
|ISO sensitivity (full resolution)
|Auto (80-1600)
|White balance
|Recording modes
|Auto, Close Up, Fireworks, Food, Underwater, Highlight Color, Soft, Diorama, Continuous
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|Center, Face priority (auto)
|2 inches (Wide)
|Metering modes
|Multi, Center
|Color effects
|Hue, Vividness controls
|Burst mode shot limit (full resolution)
|4 shots
You will not find a lot of fancy shooting options or a lot of control over results with the S30; it's just not that kind of camera. It's made for point-and-shoot use and while there are a few extra shooting modes beyond its auto mode (labeled "Point and shoot" in the camera), they're all basics. That's not a criticism, since in this case it's better that Nikon limited settings and functions.
Nikon did include a few effects to make those fun summertime shots by the pool a little more interesting, including a miniature/tilt-shift mode and an adjustable soft filter. These and more can be added after you shoot, too, in the playback menu.


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Finally some happy Bethenny news to report! In a new interview with In Touch Weekly, Bethenny Frankel opens up about being a mommy and discusses trying for a second child with husband, Jason Hoppy. In a shocker, Bethenny also reveals she is open to adopting!
"Women tell me they never regret having a second one, they regret not having a second one," Bethenny reveals of wanting a sibling for daughter, Bryn. And now is the time for baby number two!
Following a year of many ups-and-downs, the Bethenny Ever After star who just celebrated her 41st birthday is ready to expand her family and is wondering if she will be able to get pregnant a second time. Bethenny tells In Touch: "I'm getting up there, especially for getting pregnant."
While Bethenny insists they haven't "ruled out" another biological child, if the couple does not conceive, Bethenny isn't worried! "I am also open to adoption," she shares. Bethenny explains that adoption has a lot of benefits, including "the freedom of not worrying about my age and the ability to give a child a home." And hey – not having to worry about baby weight! Although that could be a whole 'nother line of Skinnygirl products to roll out…
Bethenny confesses that she always knew motherhood was her destiny and before she had a man she considered adopting as a single mother. "When I had no prospects, and no idea what the future held, I thought I would adopt," she declares.
Though she finds that "balancing career with being a mother is challenging," even with nannies, she definitely wants to expand her family. "I know what's important now and I just love being home with my family." The Frankel-Hoppy family adopting would definitely be an interesting and exciting twist on what could possibly be the final season of their show!
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I can get it to enter amount and also enter rate and enter amount of years but can't get it to tell me the monthly payment for some reason. I know I am missing something.
import java.util.Scanner; public class project5{ /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { //Print out the welcome screen System.out.println ("Welcome to the Loan Calculator"); System.out.println(); double loanAmount; double interestRate; double months = 0; String choice = ("y"); double numberYears; while (choice.equalsIgnoreCase("y")) { //read loan amount Scanner sc = new Scanner (System.in); System.out.print("enter amount"); loanAmount = sc.nextDouble(); //read interest rate System.out.print("enter interest rate"); interestRate = sc.nextDouble(); //read number of years System.out.print("enter number of years"); numberYears = sc.nextDouble(); //calculate the monthly payment double monthlyPayment = loanAmount * interestRate / (1 - 1/Math.pow(1 + interestRate, months)); //display the monthly payment System.out.println ("The monthly payment is:"); //see if the user wants to continue System.out.print("continue? (y/n): "); choice = sc.next(); System.out.println(); } } }


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The Old Testament tells the story of the beautiful and faithful widow Judith, who killed Holofernes, the general of Nebuchadnezzar, with his own sword. Klimt's "Golden Judith" is the modern "femme fatale".
Original: Oil on canvas, Austrian Gallery, Schloss Belvedere (Belvedere Castle), Vienna.
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Gustav Klimt: Art print "Judith I" (1901), Gallery frame
The Old Testament tells the story of the beautiful and faithful widow Judith, who killed Holofernes, the general of Nebuchadnezzar, with his own sword. Klimt's "Golden Judith" is the modern "femme fatale".
Original: Oil on canvas, Austrian Gallery, Schloss Belvedere (Belvedere Castle), Vienna.
High-class art print. Limited edition of 499 copies. Handmade gallery frame. Format 37 x 73 cm. Especially at ars mundi.
1862-1918, Austrian painter, famous representatives of Viennese Art Nouveau
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) already was a renowned artist, Vienna's Ringstrasse with its Mural Art Nouveau crucial had distinct and was co-founder of the Vienna secession, was his "Golden style". Inspired by Byzantine mosaics, he added ornamental surfaces in a golden bed such as aggregate gems. In his image, Klimt describes the way of life of the people, by the shoots adversely affected that finds his salvation in the kiss. The representations of the body have a subtle erotic, however the figures dissolve into ornamental, geometrical colour surfaces. He does not only apply this principle style for his images of pair, but also the portraits of wealthy ladies and the landscape images. This flat style is today synonymous with the intense colour art of Klimt that characterizes his work but only in 1905.
Klimt was understood not only to gold and opulence, he was also a great artist. In the course of his life he produced numerous drawings. Most of the time as preparatory studies for larger works.
The son of an engraver learned his craft at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. Still searching for an independent expression, his early work is marked by the historicism Hans Makart, the artist Prince of the Habsburg monarchy in the late 19th century. A community of artists with his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch making, the young painters have received numerous orders for the design of new buildings on the Ringstrasse. The staircases of the Vienna Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum bear witness to the historicist style of this community studios. Like so many young and open-minded artists of the Fin-de-siècle also Gustav Klimt turned off at the end of the 1890s of the academic tradition. In 1897, he founded the "Vienna secession", which he presided in 1905 until his exit as President with other artists. The own exhibition building of the secession is still place and temple for the new young art.
Art Nouveau, known as Jugendstil in Germany, is a term for the art in 1890-1910. The name originates from the Munich-based magazine "Jugend" (Youth) founded in 1896. Internationally, the style is known as Art Nouveau (France), Modern Style (England) or Secession (Austria).
The Art Nouveau conquered all of Europe and there were created countless objects whose spectrum ranges from painting, applied arts to architecture. The Art Nouveau requirement was the artistic creation of everyday objects, that is beauty and practicality should be combined with each other. The desired unit of the artistic ability could only be achieved by individually expressed design, which allowed Art Nouveau to become an early stage of modernity. The essential characteristic of the Art Nouveau is a linear, often asymmetrical ornamentation whose models are to be found particularly in nature and flora.
Major Art Nouveau centers were formed in Munich, Darmstadt, Brussels, Paris and Nancy (Glass Art by Emile Gallé). The Viennese architecture of that time was determined by Otto Wagner and J. Hoffmann. Gustav Klimt created paintings that gave sensual form to the spirit of the Art Nouveau.
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I am wanting to be able to set up a script or event whereby my mailboxes are compressed on a schedule, such as weekly. I tried setting up a simple script with the compressmailbox command and using the Tools>Events?Timed to establish the event. Using the menu, I selected the script to run and ticked the box to run once every week. However, I found that the script runs everytime I start Pocomail, although the next start date is computed correctly - but ignored. If I untick the 'repeat' box, the script doesn't run at all. Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding timed events? One of the options is to run a script so I'm guessing it's a bug. Please advise.
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Greetings Lords and Ladies of The Empire,
I hereby submit my letter of intent for the position of Imperial Minister of Combat within the Empire of Chivalry and Steel.
I have served the Kingdom of Galandor as Kingdom Marshal for the past year, and have been the Territorial Marshal for the Marquisette of Solaris for two years. In that time I have overseen the local and kingdom-wide testing of multiple new weapons, forms of equipment, as well as assured that all marshals of the Kingdom of Galandor, within all three territories, are properly warranted as per the Legis Imperium.
Through these offices, along with serving as the Marquis of Solaris, I have displayed my desire to educate and lead the current and future generations of this empire. By my actions, through mouth and hand, I look forward to further serving the Empire of Chivalry and Steel.
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Home video releases of Bear in the Big Blue House. Columbia TriStar distributed the VHS releases and the first set of DVD releases, up to 2003. From 2004, the DVDs were released by Disney DVD.
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Early to Bed, Early to Rise
Storytelling with Bear
Practice Makes Perfect
Party Time with Bear
Shapes, Sounds & Colors with Bear
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Potty Time with Bear
Tidy Time with Bear
Visiting the Doctor with Bear
Dance Party
Everybody's Special
A Bear for All Seasons
Heroes of Woodland Valley
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In Hong Kong, a number of episodes are available on Video CD distributed by Deltamac. The packaging is styled in the shape of a house to resemble the Big Blue House and contains a simple jewel case with a pressed CD. The video is smaller than any regular TV aspect ratio at 352x262. Traditional Chinese subtitles are hard-coded onto the image, and aren't removable. The audio track consists of a Chinese dub in the right channel, with the original English in the left.


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Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Game Software Development
This program prepares students to apply relevant knowledge and skills in the area of game development. Using graphics engines and physics, game developers design computer-based games and simulations for a variety of platforms. This program will impart to students the requisite programming and scripting skills necessary to design computer-based games and simulations.
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