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Unless she's on the internet in any way, shape, or form.
I dunno about that. She is quite possibly the most popular and most discussed woman in gaming media as a whole right now. Even for someone like me, who doesn't even try to keep up with any Anita related news - am still subjected to threads/articles about her everywhere in gaming media.
I would've actually thought much less about her if she took that route. I've seen channels where users attempt to debate complicated issues, and end up only approving comments that agree with them. That stuff bothers me significantly.
That's called television, and no one ever says that they're "silencing the debate" by not having a scrolling 1-800-OPINION line at the bottom of the screen.
The O'Reilly Factor doesn't have a comments section (save for when he shows a hate letter or two), but we all seem to have come to the consensus that Bill O'Reilly is a massive douche without it.
EDIT: Strikethrough on my censorship example because THIS:
It's not really a bad thing to do, disabling the comments.
But seeing as with the same amount of effort you can disable the notifications, thus never being bothered by them anyway, and allow other people who do enjoy the comments to still have their fun I'd say it's a lesser good though.
Nothing wrong with disabling the comments, but you could do better.
What exactly is youtube without the vulgarity and bad spelling?
Surely it'd be like a cheese and onion pie without the cheese. The two are inseparable companions, how could you do this?
... Monster.
No meaningful definition of censorship limits it to anti-democratic government-instituted censorship.
Censorship is the ereasal or limitation of communication. If I'm quoting your post, and replacing a word with asterisks, then by most common definitions, I am "censoring" your line. If I'm asterisking out my own words, I am prcticing "self-censorship". When the Escapist is deleting forum posts, they are censoring commenters.
I'm not saying that all these forms of censorship are wrong, they might be necessary, but first of all we need to admit what it is. If you are blocking comments from your youtube page, then you are censoring your youtube page. You are limiting other people's communication. And just because you do it in a way that is within your legal rights, doesn't change that basic fact.
To deny that, just because censorship sounds like such an unpleasant word, is a pointless euphemism.
I can understand why she did what she did, I just don't agree with her.
Frankly, I find YouTube comments to be a source of endless amusement.
I agree, mostly because her series of videos was crowd-funded via Kickstarter. This implies that she's willing to accept money from her investors, but not their criticism. Also, disabling ratings does nothing to stop the hate campaign against her. There's nothing vulgar or violent about a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Although a two-way rating system can't be called constructive, she's clearly not willing to listen to criticism of any kind.
In the end, not everyone on Youtube is looking for it to be some kind of public discourse. It's just a depository for videos of all kinds, not a never-ending film festival and public square where people can discuss it. It can have consequences when every single video has some kind of vile hatred a few scroll-ticks below it, it's one of the reasons why other sites have simply but the comments on a separate page (sort of like this one, though still mostly unmoderated and uncontrolled). But you have no right to have your free speech facilitated right below the video, it's never worked that way in other mediums and shouldn't be expected on the internet.
Then maybe they should research their position and not go out in public claiming ridiculous things as undeniable, unquestionable truths that are backed up by (forged) evidence that someone has in their basement and just can't show us (see also Mormonism).
I can't blame them for not wanting to be laughed at openly... but I can blame them for openly saying it, refusing to listen to any counter arguments and then expecting not to be laughed at when the evidence in the basement appears to be made in Peru.
It's kind of like the kid who doesn't really know the answer to a question, but then says it anyway and then refuses to admit that 2+2 =/= 5 but 4 and then quotes magic as his argument.
I can't blame him for not wanting to say the answer, but I can blame him for saying it and then stubbornly insisting that it must be true because leprechauns.
But they don't have to be laughed at, they can just block all those mean nasty people with their science and their facts from the youtube comments by only allowing approved comments.
Would you not like to tap that? She reminded me of early Elaine from Seinfeld which I would tap.
My god, why would people want to NOT be contradicted? What madness is this!
A very slippery madness my friend you see when you say such things you enter the Censorship zone. Where Offensive and Dissenting blur into one big mess where any opinion that does not echo your own soon flow into one big Offending blob that gets chucked out the metaphorical comment window.
As someone once said. I disagree with and am offended by your stupidity, but I will defend to the death your right to express that stupidity on internet forums. Or something along those lines, some freedom was taken in the exact wording.
Also there is no such thing as a right to not be offended outside of dictatorships :)
Why stop at the YouTube comments section? What else on the web is better off censored... >.>
I'm sick of seeing ^this^ idiotic reasoning from the childishly sensitive Left. (What happened to the days where the Left were about freedom? They're as bad as the Right, these days.)
But there is absolutely a right to not listen to the opinions of others. Sure, you could simply not read said opinions, but let's not pretend that disabling the comments on a video that you own is some great slight in the face of free expression. The slope is not so slippery. Not all censorship is equal, or even necessarily evil by definition. No one is saying that you are not allowed to dissent; they're merely disabling your ability to dissent on the same page as the video.
If this were truly such an effective method of curbing discussion, we wouldn't be having this conversation right. Nor would the users above be having a conversation about Tropes VS. Women's disabled comment section. Clearly, disabling comments on her videos has not silenced the discussion.
That all may be true, but it doesn't change the fact that it makes a video look weaker if a person is downright EXPECTING a comments section filled with negative feedback.
Leaving comments on shows confidence in the video they are presenting.
It doesn't matter. Disabling comments and ratings is just bad form unless you are advertising.
Sure, you won't know "who is a faggot and why" but you'll also not get any feedback what so ever. If the video really is an opinion based piece you may be just insulating yourself to other opinions on the same subject, and I can't think of a situation where it's a good idea to isolate yourself from others opinions. Sure you may be called a faggot, but is it really that difficult for an intelligent person to look at a comment like that and come to the conclusion that:
1. Someone calling you gay isn't really much of an insult unless you consider homosexuals to be unsuitable.
These comments are no reason to disable all discussion on a video.
If you consider the audience that useless then you must also consider that trying to express your opinion to that audience just as useless. It would be like trying to teach an ape how to do complex astrophysics, it's a waste of the ape's time and also a waste of the teacher's time.
So really there's no reason to post on youtube if you're going to disable the comments, unless you plan on using youtube as a host to put the video somewhere else. If you consider the audience you're reaching on youtube to be so worthless that they could never say anything that could ever be meaningful to you, that the audience you're expressing your opinion to will never understand your argument or opinion and only call you fag, then why the fuck would you ever bring your opinion to that audience? It's a waste of your time.
If you don't care if somebody has something actually meaningful to say to you, and you still block their comments you're being as close minded as the people who call others fags on the comments section on youtube.
Going to another place on the internet to comment on the specific form of an individual youtube video is just...silly unless the video is extremely popular, like "Gangnam Style". If I just started a thread on this website to comment on(which has a comments section.) A person would have to first be interested in the subject to watch the video before it would make sense. Youtube has a complex system that arranges videos in a such a way that chain videos together by subject matter, this allows a person to be interested in a subject before they click the video link. Not so on internet threads. Worldwide this video has about 743,000 hits, how many of them were from people who also use the forums on for instance The Escapist? Of the people who viewed this video only 1 in 400 commented on it. How many of them were people who visit the Escapist forums? How should I expect a discussion of this video when the odds are such that only 30 people were interested enough to watch even the first minute? No, the perfect place for a discussion to happen on a youtube video is on youtube where the viewer base for the video is located. Where the only reason the video was watched in many cases is because a person had enough interest in a topic to either look the video up directly or follow a series of other videos that have comparable subject matter.
Hey, if breaking into other people's houses is considered limiting my freedom of expression, then so sure as hell is disabling comments on a video in the interwebs.
I think you meant to use the word Hear instead of Listen, because listening implies something else than hearing. You see nobody has a right to force you to listen to something. As in take heed of it or follow orders or something, so in that you are correct. However there exist no right to not hear an opinion. There exist no right that protects me from hearing bad music that I hate or hearing a public official spew hateful things.
You don't have a right to not hear something. You can ignore something, remove it if it is in infringing on your privacy, when a guy is following you or sending you unwanted letters and messages or showing up screaming in front of your house, but there is no right of not hearing. Because by that same stretch that right to not hear becomes a right to silence others.
Now expand turning off the discussion to the entirety of youtube. Then to other sites. Then to the entire internet. The supposition that disabling one comment section does not impede discussion is a flawed argument. That if youtube removes their discussions all together, the rest of the internet will allow for people to discuss. So what happens when every forum decides that they are done with the trolls, the whiners, the idiots and so on? They are using the same arguments and if they are valid on one site they are valid on another, so what would happen to your argument if everyone just decided that they were sick of hearing? For example what would happen if I had the power to just turn off the comments anywhere and I didn't want to hear your opinion? It wouldn't exist now would it, you'd have to find some underground forum where I had no power simply to express your dissent against me.
"Disabling comments is not censorship if youtube does it. We can just go somewhere else to talk about it!"
Unless there is no such place left. What you are saying here is possibly because you have an abundance of free speech. You can choose out of a slew of places to discuss your opinion and whatever else. However you may not be so fortunate when all the motivation you need to remove the ability to say anything is that someone simply doesn't want to hear it.
On youtube you are essentially taking a soapbox and standing in a park voicing your opinion. By disabling the comments you essentially forbid the people listening from saying anything. It would be akin to me getting a roll of ducktape and slapping a piece on everyone's mouth before I continue with my speech about whatever. The weak and flimsy excuse that you just don't want to hear it or that they should go to the other park to discuss what you just said is simply lazy and a self defeating statement when that other park imposes the same rules and the next one does the same and the next one and the next one and repeat ad nausea.
Because I live in this particular Park (read Country) I can say that the King of Thailand is a corrupt inbred mongrel resulting of a dated tradition that should be abolished. In Thailand I go to jail no matter WHERE I say that because of the king's "right" to not hear what I think of him.
Sure this is an extreme example, but it shows you that the slope is not just slippery, but that it is buttered up with 56 different types of grease and we are barely holding on. Your blase attitude to youtube comments is possible because you have other options. Just imagine if you didn't have those.
Finally someone with sense, was reading too much "lol youtube comments" when many escapists comments are the same or similar only with moderators with ban-hammerers around. There are many an insightful debate to be had even with 500 words apiece. In a conversation do you ever go on long winded monologues?
And why are we to feel sad about this? She profited far more from her kickstarter than she would've without those "trolls" giving her free advertising and pity from the general person. She also only received those 1 million views, due to those "trolls".
We all have to deal with "trolls" and get over it, it's called life.
She actually doesn't have to deal with them, that's why she turned off comments. So she doesn't have to.
Considering what i see underneath many vids maybe she was right to disable the comments section. If you look at any vid over say 1000 replies you will see a trend of people commenting on one thing that can often have little to do with the actual vid. For example someone posts a vid of Static x I guarantee the comments section will be derailed by a Beiber is a no talent fag hate chain or any vid that has anything to do religion will get derailed into god vs god is dead.
Also lets not forget the 400 pound gorilla in the room and that is the user's ability to downvote someones comment to the point of it not showing up unless you click on it. Any good point or any point which might be seen a being in any way in favor of her point would likely suffer that fate. Not to mention moderating her vids with a likely one hundred thousand plus comments would be pretty time consuming she would likely have to start another kickstarter to hire a staff to handle that.
You absolutely have a right to protect you from hearing bad music or hate speech. You can wear headphones that play music you enjoy, wear earmuffs or earplugs, or even stick your fingers in your ears and yell "LA LA LA LA LA LA." All of these things are not only possible, but well within your rights. Saying that everyone has to hear everything you say is the opposite extreme of saying no one should be able to say things you don't like. If YouTube contributors don't want to hear (rather, READ) comments, they disable comments. They are able to do this. They do not get arrested and their accounts are not deleted for doing so, so clearly they do have a right not to hear things they do not want to.
Why should they have to hear things that they don't like, but they cannot do things you don't like (disable comments)? You were the one to bring up what rights we do and do not have. No one on YouTube has hand-picked your rights. I understand if you are not in favor of such a thing, but to say that they do not have the right to do so is more oppressive than the very thing you're criticizing them for.
You're only providing an example of your slippery slope argument, not providing evidence that one exists.
I don't see how I could have an "abundance" of free speech. Free speech is just that: free. To say that I have an abundance of it implies that having a deficit of free speech is possible. To have a deficit of free speech would be to limit what I am and am not able to say. It would no longer be free speech. Besides, we're not talking about limiting WHAT people say, only where they say it (an argument you seem to have agreed with in your "showing up in front of your house screaming" statement.)
Slippery slope again, but I digress. Your point falls flat when you use the park for your example. The park is a public place. Your YouTube channel is YOURS. You may say "But YouTube is a public website!" True, YouTube is public. But if your channel is then also public by extension, why are we given the option to set our videos to "Private?" We own the intellectual property within them, we can control who sees and shares them, and we make money off of them. Our channels and the content on them belong to us. I shouldn't be able to say things on someone's channel against their will any more than I should be able to publish editorials on the front page of The Escapist, or someone would be able to show up at your house screaming incoherently.
I agree, this is an extreme example, and I don't think it works in this context.
Oh, look. Yet another sting at all the internets because focusing on the people who makes sense is boring.
Disabling comments, disables debate and sends a poor message. Don't like'm, don't read'em.
It's quite simple, if you don't want to hear idiots commenting obscene crap all the time on your video, DON'T POST THE VIDEO TO BEGIN WITH!!! If you are so sensitive that you can't just ignore what those idiots post like a mature human being and just read the comments worth reading, you shouldn't be putting videos on the net. Disabling comments because of idiots is no less a dick move than what those idiots themselves post to begin with. Worse, you're condemning everybody for the actions of only a few.
Oh, and the definition of censorship is: "Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body." So yes, disabling comments IS censorship.
Yeah people have fought countless wars over the ability to say and stand for what you want and died in the millions for it. But you know if people send some hate your way just blanket censor everyone because that helps. The new thing is censoring and it's going to get much worse.
Honestly, disabling youtube comments only does the world a favor. But its not as if Anita allows discourse on any other site, hell she could almost entirely dodge the trolls by creating a backers only forum. Plus she's perfectly happy to have youtube comments when she's after press attention for a kickstarter campaign.
So what you just said was that you have a right to protect yourself from hearing something by ignoring it, doesn't really matter how you do it that's basically what you are doing :D. Congratulations you went 100% full circle! You however have no right to smash the other guys "insert music machine brand" or stop them from talking just so you don't have to hear it.
It's actually a very simple thing that I already explained and with the first paragraph explained it the second time. However I am a good sport and will thus repeat myself a third time. You do not have a right to not hear something, you can ignore something, block it out or remove yourself from the place where things are being said. However you have no right to prevent yourself from hearing something by taking away the ability to voice something from another person.
In less eloquent terms you could literally spread your cheeks and overpower the other guy by the sound of your flatulence drowning out their voice, thus preventing you from hearing them, but you can never duck tape his mouth shut just so you don't have to hear it. Therefore there is no right to not hear something, there is simply no law that says you have to hear them.
Did I not just give you a nice example? If a Thailander living in Thailand says something bad about the King Anywhere, they get arrested. In other words a person with the ability to silence a particular set of comments anywhere has done so and enacted punishment on those that did so. All for the sake of not wanting to be offending or having to hear critique. I think it actually fits quite perfectly. You see the King is a Youtuber, he doesn't like to be called an opulent dictator with a penis the size of shaven down pencil. So what did he do? He applied a national level filter to the comment section of his entire country. Making sure that no mean things were being said about him anywhere. Should anyone dare to do so though then that comment is quickly deleted with a nice jail sentence.
I don't think I could have found a better real world example than that. Now I deliberately did not go for the easy and even more extreme ones like China, North Korea or Russia, where dissenting journalists are liquidated. That would have been bad examples because those are basically censorship ruled regimes. They are however a nice example of how free speech is not just binary but a gradient where certain things are allowed to be talked about and other things aren't.
Think of the gradient of free speech like the rules of conduct on the Escapist where I can admit to piracy, but on Steam forums I get banned even if it was a game not even available on their services.
I guess you think you own your facebook page and your videogames, how cute. No the same license bullshit they tack onto your games also applies to your channel. In reality your channel is on loan from youtube, they allow you this space to post content, view content, etc. in and can terminate, edit or change any content in it for any reason. In other words youtube is like a park in internet land, where everyone can go and talk, laugh, do whatever but the park is still owned by youtube. Your channel is just the soapbox you are standing on in that park :)
Sure we can bicker about the differences in places where you can exercise free speech and the ability to speak freely but that is all just semantics. Best left behind with the same notion that you own your youtube channel and that it is in some way a private area.
The thing being that if the notion that an offending or unpleasant remark warrants it's exclusion from a comment section or the closing of that comment section is acceptable then we really don't have much left do we? As I pointed out already had I enjoyed the power to filter comments I could have simply filtered yours out, you see people not agreeing with me offends me quite severely and this entire discussion would never have happened. You might have gone to some other forums I frequent but I would find you filter you out all the same, I might have gone a step further and started actively filtering out your comments on random sites, eventually silence you in almost all of the public forums forcing you to either give up or go deeper underground.
It is a slippery slope, especially when people think some compromises on free speech should be admissible for the sake of sparing someone's feelings.
(Also if you are just going to answer in chronological order, don't break up the comment in separate sections. Just a pet peeve of mine but it makes it harder to respond to and annoying to read.)
Freedom of speech means Sarkeesian is entitled to not subject herself, or her viewers, to the inane ramblings of illiterate morons in a comment section.
It actually means the exact opposite, that she can't prevent those people from saying insane things even if she wanted to. Thankfully though there is no law that says she has to hear them, meaning that if she ignores them nobody will force her to read them.
Though if that is all you are concerned about then she could just disable comment notifications on those videos and still allow people to comment. Best of both worlds, the idiots can scream and she doesn't have to hear them.
The most common comments that make it to the top (on Youtube) are;
a) directly quoted from the video
Based on an observational period of seven years.
Basically, what I'm saying is that the voting system does not make sure a smart comment gets featured.
People can act like morons anywhere, censoring them doesn't help, ever. If you think all discussion that takes place in the Youtube comments section is automatically invalid, well, don't read the comments. That's still not a reason to stop them existing in the first place.
Censorship is always bad, no matter how mind-numbingly stupid the people you're censoring are.
My view also.
But, to be fair I had a pretty inteligent conversation with a youtube commenter
in this video
Yeah, better lock up those comment sections. I mean, without some form of a voting system for the comments or the ability to flag comments for inappropriate content, those comments can't be properly contr-
Wait... I feel like maybe there's something wrong with my above statement.
Thank GOD for posting this comic.
Thank GOD for posting this comment.
Thats the long and the short of it. Anita has no obligation to provide space on her channel so 3 reasonable responses can be washed away in comments about rapeing her. If anything, she did her opponents a great SERVICE by not giving them the rope to hang themselves with.
Yes, some people with reasonable responses won't be able to post a comment on youtube...oh no, where on earth can this person discuss something about video games ON THE INTERNET? Just imagine how much discussion has been had about the lack of discussion caused by her disabling comments. The point begins to look comically absurd. Saying that disabling youtube comments is stifling the debate is kind of like saying that spitting in the ocean is contributing to rising sea levels. And quite frankly, saying that she needs to grow a thicker skin and not be offended by assholes on the internet when said assholes are threatening rape and violence is dumb, naive, involves a psychopathic lack of empathy for fellow human beings. Her disabling comments did nothing except improve the quality of the debate.
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WELLESLEY, Mass. – It was a close one today at the Nor'Easter Bowl for the MIT women's tennis team. Taking on Bates College it came down to a deciding third set in the No. 1 singles match. It was Bates that came up with the key victory and the win in the match, taking a hard-fought, 5-4 win over the Engineers.
As it did in its first match at the Bowl, MIT (8-6) picked up one win in doubles play at the No. 2 position with the team of sophomore Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) and freshman Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.). The duo scored the point with an 8-3 win over Ashley Brunk/Nicole Russell.
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Balbir Singh Dance Company, The Opera Group and Pavilion Dance South West joined the scheme in September 2012.
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"We believe a player should hold the club away from his body and swing it freely," USGA executive director Mike Davis said. "Golf is a game of skill and challenge, and we think that's an important part of it."
Three of the last five major champions, starting with Keegan Bradley at the 2011 PGA Championship, used a belly putter.
What concerned the governing bodies, however, was an increasing number of players who were turning to the long putters because they saw it as an advantage, not as a last resort to cure their putting woes.
"Anchored strokes have very rapidly become the preferred option for a growing number of players, and this has caused us to review these strokes and their impact on the game," R&A chief executive Peter Dawson said. "Our conclusion is that anchored strokes threaten to supplant traditional strokes, which with all their frailties are integral to the longstanding character of our sport."
Players could still use a broom-handle or belly putter — as long as it is not pressed against their body to create the effect of a hinge.
The R&A and USGA now offer a three-month period for open comment on the proposal before they approve it. But this already is shaping up to be a divisive issue, from industry leaders worried about the growth of golf to players who have been using these putters for years.
"Any competitive player likes to have an extra advantage," Matt Kuchar said. "I think you're going to find anyone using the short putter is glad, and anyone using the belly putter or long putter is not happy."
Kuchar used a mid-length putter that rested against his left arm when he won The Players Championship. That style is OK.
Fred Couples, the 53-year-old former Masters champion, uses a belly putter, though it rests against his stomach — it is not anchored — and the end of the club moves freely. He was not sure if that would be allowed, and he wasn't sure golf needed such a rule anyway. Couples' argument is that if the anchored stroke was that much of an advantage, everyone would be using it.
None of the top 20 players on the PGA Tour's most reliable putting statistic used an anchored putting stroke.
"In my opinion, they haven't screwed up golf yet, and I don't think this will screw it up," Couples said. "But I feel bad for Keegan Bradley, because I'll tell you what: If they banned it tomorrow and we played a tournament, I think I'll be a better player than Keegan. And I don't think that's fair."
Proposal would ban anchoring of putter
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We are a group of student involved with student government at a prominent US business school. The main method of internal circulation at our school is a set of 4-story escalators, which are constantly clogged, and impassable when students are in a hurry to class. For fun, we're implementing a "Stand Right, Walk Left" campaign to encourage the type of etiquette held dear by, for example, Metro transit riders in DC, to improve circulation between classes...and to undertake a ridiculous social experiment. Ultimately, the goal is that those that aren't in a rush, or that are simply taking their time, would stand to the right of the escalator stairs, so that those in a rush could advance up and down the escalators to the right - like a passing lane.
We want to have fun with this campaign, but we want it to be highly legible, and in turn, successful, at change the escalator-riding habits of our fellow students.
Undergraduate and graduate business school students. When conceiving the target, though, there's not need to overplay the business aspect (unless you find some truly hysterical use for incorporating it). At the end of the day, the targets are 18-32 year olds, members of both sexes, quite cosmopolitan and diverse, very funny, and very socially aware.
The image in an of itself should be powerful enough to make clear our request that, as a matter of practice, people stand right, and walk left on the escalator. We need vector-based illustrator graphics for use on bumper stickers that will be handed out at the escalators and at parties over a 1 week campaign. The image may also be made into t-shirts or other swag. The image should be fun or funny, can be simple (using stick figures or restroom logo-style people), and should be easily converted (or native) to black and white + 1 color (though depending on the design, we might accept the added cost of printing for a more colorful, legible image).
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Taylor Hill
|Youngstown, Ohio - 6'2" 190
|4*, #21 OLB, Rivals 250
|Other Suitors
|Oklahoma, LSU, Michigan State, Pitt
|Larry Foote
|Previously On
|Taylor Hill Commits?
|Glenville-Mooney scrimmage video,
If you want to add Taylor Hill to the snake-oil bonanza, feel free. At one time Hill was committed to Oklahoma, and he had just committed to Rodriguez at West Virginia when Rodriguez left for Michigan. So he's a quasi-decommit. Even odder: Hill committed to Oklahoma before visiting the campus and didn't meet Bob Stoops until October. He promptly decommitted. (Joking!)
It's hard to decipher the split between Hill's offers and his ranking. He originally decided in June between the four suitors listed above, which means he had early offers from both LSU and Oklahoma. Normally when LSU and Oklahoma offer a kid from Ohio that's a strong indicator he's elite. In this case, both Bob Stoops and Bo Pelini are both Cardinal Mooney alums who had reason to know about Hill's existence, and when Hill told Oklahoma he was going to look around they yanked his offer. They weren't exactly desperate to hang on to him.
After Oklahoma and Hill parted ways, Hill verbaled to Rich Rodriguez two days before he took the Michigan job. He decommitted again, promising to open things up. A visit to Michigan State later, he committed to Michigan. So... do we believe the early LSU and Oklahoma offers or his second-wave recruitment, during which the big candidates were second-tier schools like West Virginia and Michigan State? Two of three gurus say the latter; Rivals is more optimistic.
What does Michigan have in Hill? The comparison above, Larry Foote, is a strong one. Like Foote, Hill is an undersized WLB who played his high school ball as a defensive end and specialized in getting into the backfield. A Scout.com report from Mooney's game against Pennsylvania power Gateway:
Taylor Hill is another player that helped change the game early on. He got a ton of pressure on the Gateway quarterback off of the edge. The Gators just never could get it going offensively due to the fact they could not establish a passing attack, and Hill played a huge role in the disruption.His athletic director echoes the thought in a piece from late in Hill's junior year:
While several other Cardinal defenders have got a lot of attention this year — specifically, junior linebacker Michael Zordich and senior defensive tackle Ishmaai'ly Kitchen — junior defensive end Taylor Hill has flown under the radar despite a terrific season.A local columnist summed up Hill's season after Mooney's one-point loss to Coldwater in the state championship game: "Coldwater's game plan in the state finals was, basically, to get rid of the ball so quickly it wouldn't have to block Hill."
"This kid causes a lot of havoc," said legendary Mooney coach Don Bucci, now the school's athletic director. "When you talk about that junior class, people always name the big three of McCarthy, Zordich and [running back Brandon Beachum], but he's in their class as far as an athlete."
On the other hand, ESPN's scouting report notes that he's playing out of position and has some praise for his athleticism but spends most of its length saying things like "can be undisciplined" and "can run, but needs to improve instincts and feel for the game." It's an uncommonly negative piece for ESPN. Unsurprisingly, their rating of Hill is significantly lower than that of either Scout or Rivals.Guru Reliability: Moderate. High profile player, but playing out of position.
General Excitement Level: Moderate. A project that requires a lot of development both mentally and physically before he's ready to play, but Oklahoma and LSU offers are Oklahoma and LSU offers. High upside, high bust factor.
Projection: Obvious redshirt candidate what with the position switch and being 180 or 190 pounds and all. After that will try to find a role as a blitzing linebacker a la Foote or Shawn Crable.
Marcus Witherspoon
|Absecon, New Jersey - 6'2" 210
|4*, #14 WLB, #212 overall
|#91 overall to Takkle
|Other Suitors
|Rutgers, Tennessee
|Shawn Crable
|Previously On
By the time Marcus Witherspoon committed in early June, I had a couple articles in which he claimed offers from BC, Florida, Georgia, Notre Dame, and 25 others... unfortunately, those have evaporated and I think maybe a couple of those are iffy. In any case, when Carr retired and Rodriguez was hired there was a minor panic as Witherspoon re-opened his recruiting, seriously considered Tennessee, and seemed headed there for a moment or two before re-committing.
Witherspoon was rated and recruited as a linebacker, but with no defensive ends in this class and just one in the previous year's, someone's likely to move. Witherspoon seems a likely candidate. Check it:
The Michigan commit definitely looks like a top DI prospect physically. Although he's listed as a linebacker, he spent most of the day at defensive end, and used an assortment of moves to harass the Immaculata quarterback and running game. He'll likely start off as a linebacker with the Wolverines, but don't be surprised if he grows out of that position after a year or two in their strength and conditioning program.Witherspoon in the wild:
Last year Witherspoon racked up 27 sacks as his team went undefeated, winning the state championship as Witherspoon wreaked havoc on the edge. Witherspoon's coach before his junior season:
"We still consider him raw, so this (season) is going to be interesting," Holy Spirit coach Bill Walsh said. "At the high school level, he has the ability to take things into his own hands. We're looking forward to see what's going to happen this season. He's one of the special ones that make everyone else better.An explosive edge rusher who's probably too small to be a fulltime defensive end in college? Add four inches and some chicken legs and that sounds like Shawn Crable, who actually spent quite a bit of time as a defensive end anyway. ESPN's scouting report reinforces that belief:
"His first three steps are explosive and for a kid that big to run a legit 4.5 (seconds in the 40-yard dash), there are not too many kids who have his weight and size that run that legit speed. When you watch him on tape, he gets after it. But he still has a lot of growth."
Natural pass rusher, who possesses the quick first step and lean to effectively get by offensive lineman. This excellent, vertical attacking ability is also evident in the run game. Very difficult to block him when trying to get the edge.Concerns are expressed about Witherspoon being the product of an "attack-style defense" who might need some serious technique and responsibility work as a collegian... again, Crable.
Guru Reliability: High. They're all in the same ballpark; no sleeper marks.
General Excitement Level: Moderate++. Michigan's probably better off if Witherspoon doesn't see serious time for a year or two and then develops into a weakside defensive end. He won't have to be an enormous guy if VanBergen, a much larger guy who projects on the strongside, works out.
Projection: Obviously, this blog is projecting a move to DE. Or, rather, a non-move from DE.
JB Fitzgerald
|Princeton Junction, New Jersey - 6'3" 225
|4*, #10 SLB, #152 overall
|4*, #18 OLB, #145 overall
|80, #14 OLB, #141 overall
|Other Suitors
|Florida, Rutgers
|Victor Hobson
|Previously On
|Shamefully, nothing.
|Greg Schiano followed this dude around in a helicopter.
Only CB Boubacar Cissoko has a set of guru ratings as consistent as JB Fitzgerald's: three separate services have Fitz from around the 140th to 150th-best player in the country, and all say he's an outside linebacker. Despite that the tentative plan is to play Fitzgerald in the middle.
Fitzgerald picked Michigan over Rutgers and a legit Florida offer in late August, then picked Michigan over Rutgers again on Signing Day. Other offers came from Cal, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Georgia Tech, and a wide variety of other school.
Why did he get those offers? Well, you know what they say about a guy with huge hands...
"Coach Smith had told me that at the end of his sophomore year, he took J.B.'s hand and put it on a photocopier machine," said David Fitzgerald, J.B.'s father. "He mailed it out to all these schools."..."boy, those guys make good linebackers." And lo, the offers flowed. ESPN($):
Possesses the flat-out speed to turn and chase down backs to the sideline, rare and very impressive for size ... His overall read-and-reaction skills need improvement. We have yet to see great reactive athleticism and a good initial jump to the football. He is such a good short-range athlete that these weaknesses are often masked.So he's a bit raw as a linebacker, but nowhere near as raw as either Hill or Witherspoon. In marked contrast to the sack-heavy statlines of Michigan's other linebacker recruits, Fitzgerald's numbers actually look like those of a linebacker: 125 tackles, six forced fumbles, two interceptions, and two sacks. He was picked the Gatorade player of the year and Newark Star-Ledger defensive player of the year in New Jersey over OMG shirtless Florida recruit Will Hill. (Side note: the "hands" article is enormous and enlightening.)
You'd think there would be more out there on Fitzgerald, but unfortunately that's all the info I could dig up. At least it's positive.
Guru Reliability: High. Not much of a position move, three-year starter, no injury concerns, consistent rankings.
General Excitement Level: High. A good bet to be a multi-year starter.
Projection: Gives Johnny Thompson a run for his playing time in the fall; ends up a frequently-used backup and is groomed for a starting spot starting his sophomore year. Ezeh will probably head out to SLB.
Kenny Demens
|Beverly Hills, Michigan - 6'1" 220
|Other Suitors
|Michigan State, Nebraska
|Chris Graham
|Previously On
|The only youtube hit for "Kenny Demens" is so awesome. And Scandanavian. Commitment presser.
The high school teammate of top-ranked instate running back Jonas Gray, Kenny Demens found himself similarly ignored by Michigan for the first half of the recruiting year. By June he had picked up offers from West Virginia, Nebraska, and most of the Big Ten outside of Penn State and Ohio State.
Michigan didn't get serious about offering until Demens attended their summer camp and put in an impressive performance; the late-developing interest had them temporarily behind Nebraska and Michigan State.
ESPN spends much of its scouting report discussing his potential as a fullback; when they finally get around to the idea of Demens as a linebacker they note that his short-range closing speed "can match most of the elite linebackers in this 2008 class" -- it's too bad none of Demens' film was released into the free areas of the internet, because it's mostly him laying wood to people -- and that he has some trouble moving through the muck but is a "tough, physical tackling machine" before referencing his lack of ideal measurables and giving him about the same grade everyone else does: on the three-four star borderline.
Chris Graham may not be the most appealing comparison, but the elements are all there: a little undersized (I am of the belief the 6'1" frequently thrown around as his height is overstated), has difficulting getting through traffic, praised for his short range burst and thumping tackling. Graham never figured out how to play in control or get to the right place at the right time and was thus a disappointing starter; if Demens can play smarter he could be anything from a decent starter to a borderline all Big Ten pick.
Guru Reliability: High; they all agree and there's no reason he'd be particularly underrated.
General Excitement Level: Moderate--. Offers and ratings are pretty much in agreement; Demens is a low upside sort.
Projection: Think he's a little less likely to contribute than any of the other linebackers in the class, but not by much. It'll depend on how smart he is about maximizing his abilities.
Mike Martin
|Novi, Michigan - 6'1" 285
|4*, #12 DT, #196 overall
|Other Suitors
|MSU, PSU, Notre Dame
|Terrance Taylor
|Previously On
|Say Hello to Mike Martin, Crabman
|Don't blame me. ESPN said it.
Martin committed in early June, about a month after picking up his Michigan offer. By that time Penn State, Michigan State, Purdue, and a dozen other schools had offered, but there weren't any heavyweights on his list. IIRC, he was a late-emerging sort that no one mentioned until around April or May, at which point people began to catch on. Notre Dame offered and attempted to sway Martin after the coaching change, but Martin canceled a planned visit and stuck with his commitment.
In Martin, Michigan appears to have a player almost identical to current NT Terrance Taylor. Both are mildly undersized nose tackles who were terrifying heavyweight wrestlers and powerlifters with multiple state records to their credit. Taylor was generally ranked higher (IIRC, anywhere from around #60 to the tail end of top 100 lists) and entered college much larger.
Martin doesn't look much like your stereotypical pot-bellied defensive tackle; check this video of a Martin wrestling match:
That is a slab of muscle Mike Barwis would be mildly impressed with.
This extensive highlight reel covers Martin's senior season; it often features him running ballcarriers down like he's Shawn Crable (you might want to skip the first minute, which is all still shots):
Martin is the platonic opposite of Gabe Watson, a penetrator reminiscent of USC terror Sedrick Ellis. Ellis was an All-American because he can do the sort of things Martin does in the clips above at 305 pounds and hold up at the point of attack when doubled. Martin's usually listed at 280 and is obviously way more advanced in the tao of weightroom than 99% of high schoolers: there's a chance he's just not going to get any bigger.
Guru Reliability: High.
General Excitement Level: High. The highlight reel is totally impressive, there are zero questions about work ethic or how in shape he is, and he's got pretty good guru rankings.
Projection: Will play in the DT rotation immediately, and will probably leap past Ferrara, Kates (if Kates remains on the team), et al to claim a starting spot once Taylor and Johnson graduate.
Position Grades
Linebacker: B+. Michigan picked up its share of athletes and did well in an area they had to after a disappointing 2007 class with just two sleepers, but some immediate impact sorts were needed and other than maybe Fitzgerald there doesn't appear to be a guy who can compete for serious playing time as a freshman.
Defensive Line: C-. I really like Martin and think he's very likely to be a productive starter and eventually an All Big Ten sort. But... uh... that's it. A year after picking up just one DE, Michigan got zero; the position now looms as the far and away #2 area of need for the 2008 class (quarterback, obviously, is #1). Losing Nick Perry hurt badly on a Signing Day otherwise full of pleasant surprises.
We'll see if Witherspoon or Koger or both end up at DE, but given the way the class was announced this is the biggest issue with the class outside of the understandable QB fiasco.


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Department of Revenue News Release
September 02, 2010Camdenton and Olivette License Offices Awarded Using Competitive Bidding Process
JEFFERSON CITY - The incumbent agent for two local motor vehicle and license offices has been awarded the contracts to continue to manage the offices. The winning proposals for both offices were chosen as part of a reformed, competitive bidding process for all of Missouri's local license offices.
Alternative Opportunities, Inc. will continue to be the agent for the Camdenton License Office, which is located at 61 McCrory Dr. The Springfield not-for-profit corporation provides a variety of services for youth, veterans and the physically challenged, and it has been the office agent since September 2009.
The winning bid for the office was one of four submitted. The contract with the state is good for one year, and the state has the right to renew the contract for three additional one-year periods. According to figures from Fiscal Year 2009, an estimated 71,757 transactions were conducted at the office during FY 2009, and $252,257 in contract agent processing fees were generated.
The Olivette License Office will also continue to be managed by Alternative Opportunities. The corporation has operated the office since September 2009. The winning bid was one of six submitted, and the office is located at 9652 Olive Blvd. An estimated 86,096 transactions were conducted at the office in FY 2009, and the office generated $289,914 in agent fees.
Bidders have the option of returning a portion of an office's revenues to the state. Alternative Opportunities' winning bid for the Camdenton office included a 6 percent ($15,135) annual return to the state, and the bid for the Olivette office included a 7 percent ($20,293) return. More than $1 million is estimated to be returned to the state in the first full year of operations from the 183 license offices statewide.
The Camdenton and Olivette License Offices were two of 10 offices initially awarded in 2009 that are being re-bid at the request of the Missouri Department of Revenue because of incomplete information provided by the winning bidder during the first round of bidding. All 10 of the offices have now been re-awarded to various agents.
Details about changes in office operations, if any, will be announced by the agent.
Although Gov. Jay Nixon authorized the Department of Revenue to implement the new bidding system in January of 2009, it didn't become part of state law until legislation was signed by the Governor in July of 2009. The new law was overwhelmingly approved by both Republican and Democratic members of the Missouri Legislature.
Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Department of Revenue, noted how the competitive bidding system benefits Missouri citizens.
"The new bidding system provides an incentive for each bidder to develop as good a bid as possible," she said. "Each proposal submitted by a bidder is judged on its own merit, and the Department has been pleased with the high quality of the bids."
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Blooming Heroes
We are creating a business that will offer products and information that will help "bloom" the inner hero in our children and ourselves.
Our offerings will include:
•A line of conversation cards meant to trigger discussions with our kids about social and environmental responsibility.
•A line of fundraising products for kids and adults.
•A line of t-shirts emphasizing social and environmental topics for kids and adults – some will be fun, some will be more serious in nature.
•Information about both contemporary and historical heroes as well as "everyday" heroes (kids).
•Information about books, websites and other resources that help parents raise socially and environmentally responsible kids.
•A blog that will act as a forum to share real life situations that our kids are experiencing that relate to making socially and environmentally responsible choices.
Parents, Educators, Nonprofit Leaders and members of the general population who are socially and environmentally conscious. Males and Females aged 29-55.
The name "Blooming Heroes" must be included in the design
Colors: PMS 261 and PMS 375 (green & eggplant)
The logo should be edgy and artistic, but not techno or cold, fun but not "cutesy". Sophisticated & cool --- appealing to a large audience.
Reflective of our philosophy "growing/nurturing the inner hero" cultivating change, unlimited possibilities, giving and growth. Growing or discovering the good that lies within all of our kids and ourselves.
Would love to have a design that acts as a creative, artistic trademark (can be a symbol embedded in the brand name (woven into or placed near it - to be pulled out for use on it's own at some point).
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I Miss Paul Frees
Article by Lilly.
I love voice-overs. I love doing them and I especially love hearing really great voice-over talent. Best part of Disney's recent Alice in Wonderland? Paul Whitehouse as the March Hare. He was crazy. It was awesome. I listen Keith David perform "Friends on the Other Side" all the time. He did an outstanding job with the character of Dr. Facilier.
But of course you know my favorites go back to the early days of Disney. I love those classic voices like Ed Wynn, Andy Devine, and Eleanor Audley. Phil Harris? No wonder Disney used him a million times, he had a great voice. I love how back then they chose incredibly rich and distinct voices. Adriana Caselotti often gets criticized for her cheesy interpretation of Snow White, but you listen to "With a Smile and a Song" and tell me it doesn't warm your heart a little. That movie wouldn't be the same without that voice, I wouldn't change it a bit.
Of all the voices that I've ever heard in my life, one stands out as my absolute favorite. The late Paul Frees. Hands down, Paul Frees is my favorite voice actor of all time. Of course, as a young girl, I always loved Frees' deep and evocative voice as the Ghost Host in the Haunted Mansion, but I also loved his resounding narration in Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. Then I found out he did several of the pirate voices, including one of my favorites, the auctioneer. I began to be really impressed, but my mind was blown when I found out he did Ludwig Von Drake, too. Is there no end to this guy's talent? I propose that there is not. Since then, I have adored the man. I have listened and watched everything he's ever done and have missed him terribly since he passed away November 2, 1986. Disney isn't the same without him.
Go ahead and listen to some Paul Frees amazingness. The last 4 minutes are Paul Frees in the sound booth recording for The Haunted Mansion. Pretty cool to hear him at work.
And if you would like to see Frees in a live action role, check out The Shaggy Dog (1959) where he plays Dr. Galvin, a psychiatrist.
On October 9, 2006, Paul Frees was honored as a Disney Legend for his contributions to the Disney legacy. Mr. Frees, you are missed!
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Diagnostic imaging is indicated for patients with low back pain only if they have severe progressive neurologic deficits or signs or symptoms that suggest a serious or specific underlying condition. In other patients, evidence indicates that routine imaging is not associated with clinically meaningful benefits but can lead to harms. Addressing inefficiencies in diagnostic testing could minimize potential harms to patients and have a large effect on use of resources by reducing both direct and downstream costs. In this area, more testing does not equate to better care. Implementing a selective approach to low back imaging, as suggested by the American College of Physicians and American Pain Society guideline on low back pain, would provide better care to patients, improve outcomes, and reduce costs.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.– National clothing retail giant Abercrombie & Fitch, doing business as Abercrombie Kids, allegedly discriminated against a 17-year-old Muslim by refusing to hire her because she wore a hijab, or head scarf, in observance of her sincerely held religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in discrimination lawsuit filed today in federal court.
According to the EEOC's suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Civil Action No. 09-CV-602-GKF-FHM, Abercrombie Kids interviewed Samantha Elauf for a position at its store located in Woodland Hills Mall in Tulsa, Okla. The EEOC alleges that Abercrombie refused to hire Elauf because she was wearing a head covering when she was interviewed and this violated the company's "Look Policy," which prohibited the wearing of head coverings. Elauf had applied for a sales position with Abercrombie Kids.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, protects workers from discrimination based upon religion in hiring and in the terms and conditions of their employment. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
"The EEOC is committed to eliminating religious discrimination in the workplace" said Webster Smith, acting director of the EEOC's St. Louis District Office, which is responsible for the agency's litigation in Oklahoma. "As religious diversity increases in the workplace, companies need to be more vigilant in respecting and balancing employees' needs to practice their religion, including engaging in religious expression."
EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Michelle M. Robertson added, "Employers must abide by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and reasonably accommodate employees' sincerely held religious practices unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the company. It is unlawful for employers to treat applicants or workers differently based on their religious beliefs or practices in any aspect of employment, including recruitment, hiring and job assignments."
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The economy was "catastrophically bad" in the first quarter of 2014, says Alan Blinder, and the Princeton economics professor is less sanguine than many other economists about economic growth for the rest of the year.
Despite the fact that unemployment has not settled between 5.2% and 6%, and that inflation, as measured by core personal consumption expenditures, remains below the Federal reserve's "macro mission" target of 2%, the former Fed vice chairman nevertheless expects the Fed to continue tapering its buying of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities through October or December of this year.
Tapering, however, does not mean that the Fed's balance sheet will shrink to anywhere near $900 billion, where it stood "prior to the Lehman collapse." Blinder says his "guess" is that it will settle around the $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion mark.
Then what will the Fed do? When will the Fed-controlled federal funds rate be raised from its near-zero level, where it has been since 2008? How is the Fed, or more specifically the Federal Open Market Committee, making its decisions? The answers to those questions were at the core of Blinder's keynote speech Sunday evening at the Investment Management Consultants Association's national conference in Boston, and he claritied and elaborated on those answers in an individual interview after the speech.
First, about those bad first-quarter economic numbers. Blinder said in the interview that he believes the 0.1% annualized GDP growth reported by the Commerce Department on April 30 may well be revised, as some observers have speculated. However, he believes it may be revised downward, not upward, and may even be negative by the next revision, which Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis plans to release on May 29.
There is one tangible benefit to the economy this year, he said. The government's "Titanically large drag on the economy" last year will be smaller in 2014, though he quipped that "the bar wasn't too high" in predicting that the government's heavy hand will be lighter this year.
Blinder says he remains concerned about the state of housing in the U.S., and the lack of a "wealth effect" that would encourage more consumer spending. Looking at the other large economies around the world, he called the Japanese economy "surprisingly good." Though with a new consumption tax that was implemented just last month by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Blinder is concerned that the Japanese economy might be staggered like it was the last time an increase in the consumption tax occurred back in 1997, which pushed Japan into recession.
As for China, Blinder believes that if that nation's growth only "slows" down to 7.5%, "we won't even notice it," partly because "they don't buy much from us." By contrast, he called Europe "decidedly a mixed bag," but said it certainly "won't give the U.S. a boost."
There is always the possibility of an oil shock, he said, which might be prompted by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, though he stressed the rather minimal economic footprint of Ukraine, if not the political. What's Next for the Fed?
Assuming that QE ends in October or December of this year, when will the federal funds rate lift off? Blinder believes that may occur a good six to 12 months after tapering ends. In the interview, Blinder said he expected a slow, steady rise in the fed funds rate that will eventually be reflected in higher longer-term interest rates, again at a slow pace — assuming that Chairwoman Janet Yellen can corral the FOMC members to cooperate.
Blinder has been teaching economics at Princeton for a long time, interrupted by service in Washington on Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. An admitted friend of the former chairman Ben Bernanke and of Yellen, Blinder is on record as having supported Yellen to replace Bernanke last year, and has long advocated, like Bernanke and Yellen, for the Fed to take a more "open, transparent" approach to the outside world.
Bernanke and now Yellen also have taken a different approach to decision making, he said. The traditional power structure at the Fed, most famously epitomized by former chairs Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, was that of a "dominant chairman," to the point that the media would report on "what will Volcker or Greenspan do, not 'What will the Fed do?'" in its reporting.
Bernanke wanted to move away from that "more personal" structure, Blinder said, and believed that better decision making could be encouraged through a committee approach, which reflected Bernanke's own personal style. Yellen also believes in the power of a committee-based decision, but Blinder believes she'll try to "exert more authority" on the FOMC's deliberations, in a "nuanced way."
However, Blinder suggested in his speech that Yellen may be facing a "cacophony" problem, with various members of the FOMC speaking out publicly and often as not disagreeing with one another. "As taper comes to a close" in his predicted October or December timeframe, Blinder expects "a major, vocal debate" at the FOMC over "what comes next" for the Fed.
That debate between the Fed's 'hawks and doves' may well "rattle the markets," he worries. "Traders will completely" focus on the taper and what will come afterward, he said, "if they haven't already."
In the interview, Blinder said the problem isn't that there's disagreement among the FOMC members over what actions to take or not take. Rather, it's that there's public disagreement after a consensus has been reached that could cause those market jitters. Yellen, he said, "has her work cut out for her."
What about the financial crisis and the regulations it spawned, in particular the Dodd-Frank Act? In his speech, Blinder said that there was "such a severe backlash" worldwide over "the bailout" of financial firms, in the event of another similar crisis, he worries that there won't be the political will to take similar bold action. As for Dodd-Frank, while it's far from perfect, he said he "likes Dodd-Frank in general" and argued that, generally speaking, the rest of the world is behind the U.S. in financial reform. In the interview, when asked about the perceived overregulation of the industry via Dodd-Frank, he said that "the regulated never like to have regulation." Blinder said that imposing a fiduciary duty on advice givers would be good for investors, though he said it was important that the different sides of the debate be heard.
With that in mind, he took a different approach to the controversy over Dodd-Frank's complexity and scope. After most similar wide-ranging legislation, he said in the interview, Congress usually "corrects" the original act through additional legislation that addresses its shortcomings. But with the partisan atmosphere in Washington, where the Republicans have tried and failed to repeal Dodd Frank "42 times," such corrective legislation has no chance to be approved.
In the question and answer session following his prepared remarks, he agreed that "there's too much cash" in the banks, and said he had long lobbied (unsuccessfully) to remove the 25 basis points of interest that the Fed is paying to banks on their excess cash.
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Green practices are increasingly implemented in the automotive industry. Green practices characteristic have direct effects on green innovation. The associations among different of green practices (internal environmental management, technology integration, logistic management, customer focus, supplier focus) and reviewed which green practices can effect on green innovation (green product innovation and green process innovation). Thus, the main purpose of this study is to develop a model that the structural analysis of green practices and green innovation in Malaysian automotive industry. The conceptual model using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) has been proposed. Base on the proposed conceptual model and reviewed, research hypotheses are being developed, the paper culminates with suggested future research work.
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They felt sick, angry, cheated, deceived.
Not only did Ryan Braun let down scores of baseball fans Monday, he riled up players all around the majors.
The guys who used to be in his corner. The guys who make up the union membership.
"Watching him talk right now makes me sick," Skip Schumaker of the Los Angeles Dodgers said. "I have an autographed Braun jersey in my baseball room that I'll be taking down. I don't want my son identifying what I've worked so hard to get to and work so hard to have — I don't want him comparing Braun to me."
The Milwaukee Brewers slugger accepted a 65-game suspension Monday for unspecified "violations" of baseball's drug program and labor contract.
Just last year, the 2011 NL MVP dodged a 50-game penalty when an arbitrator overturned his positive test for elevated testosterone because the urine sample had been improperly handled.
Then he held a news conference at spring training in Phoenix and read a defiant statement, insisting he was innocent and "the truth" was on his side.
Jason Bay watched it on television, just like everyone else.
"I think for me what makes me mad," the Seattle outfielder said, "basically it just kills all the credibility of anybody."
Reaction poured in after Major League Baseball banned Braun without pay for the rest of the season and the postseason, the beginning of sanctions involving players reportedly tied to a Florida clinic accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs.
Plenty of it was pretty harsh.
"I think everybody's frustrated, especially the players. I think we all feel a little bit cheated," Mariners pitcher Joe Saunders said.
Schumaker thinks Braun should hand over his MVP award to Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, who finished second in the 2011 balloting.
"In my opinion, he should be suspended — lifetime ban. One strike, you're out. It's enough. It's ridiculous," Schumaker said. "He lied to a lot of people. I was convinced, after that MVP, that he didn't do it."
Braun, struggling through an injury-plagued season, will miss Milwaukee's final 65 games, costing him about $3 million of his $8.5 million salary. But his punishment probably won't affect the Brewers' playoff chances much — they were last in the NL Central at 41-56, already far out of wild-card contention.
"I talked to a lot of the guys and we think the penalties aren't harsh enough," Saunders said. "I think it should have been a year's suspension, at least. Just my take on it. I don't get why guys have to do that stuff."
Braun issued a statement Monday saying he's not perfect and realizes now that he has made some mistakes. He apologized "to anyone I may have disappointed" and said he was happy to have the matter behind him "once and for all."
But that doesn't mean there's no fallout for others in the game.
"It's a sad day," Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "It's a black eye when something like this happens."
New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia, Braun's former teammate in Milwaukee, said he was shocked.
"I never would have thought it, but I guess you never know," Sabathia explained.
Some players were more forgiving.
"He stepped up. It's just like when you get a ticket, a speeding ticket," Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter said. "You know you were speeding. You get a ticket and you go and you do your time or pay your speeding ticket, then you're doing what you're supposed to do. That's what Braunie is doing. Everybody makes mistakes. It takes a man to forgive him. If you don't forgive him, then are you a man?"
Bay thinks Braun could have handled his situation differently.
"If you look at the guys who have done stuff and just come out and admit it, a lot of guys don't remember who those guys were," Bay said. "But the guys who run up and down and say, 'No, no,' and then it gets drug through the mud 10 times worse, it makes it tougher on themselves and the rest of us."
It appears more penalties are coming, too.
Braun was one of more than a dozen players targeted by MLB, including injured Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, following a report by Miami New Times in January that they had been connected with Biogenesis of America, a now-closed anti-aging clinic.
"The guys that are cheating or whatever are taking something away from the other players. They're lying to the fans, they're lying to their teammates, they're lying to their GMs, their owners, and they're going to get caught," Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson said.
Braun addressed his stunned Brewers teammates Monday afternoon. Second baseman Rickie Weeks described the slugger as "somber" and "embarrassed."
"I've said all along he doesn't need that stuff to perform," catcher Jonathan Lucroy said. "I don't know why he ever took it."
Lucroy acknowledged he initially felt deceived. But he said Brewers players were supportive, and he forgives Braun.
"I don't think anybody here is going to hold a grudge," Lucroy said. "He was depressed, but at the same time he felt a lot of weight come off his shoulder, come off his chest. That's a tough burden to bear, withholding the truth for so long."
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