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Coverage of Obama Post-Health Care Reform; Tainted Cash
Aired March 28, 2010 - 11:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice-over): Victory and intimidation. Is the press boosting the president after his health care win and linking the likes of Sarah Palin to death threats against Democrats? Tainted cash. Why on earth did ABC pay $200,000 to a woman now accused of murdering her daughter? Junkie journalism. Politico's top editors on their bubbly brew of reporting tastes great, but is it less filling? Plus, Tiger talks. Should two sports channels have agreed to five-minute interviews? (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: We all thought that the health care story would fade after President Obama finally got his hotly-disputed bill through Congress. On that point, we were wrong. The coverage took a dark turn this week with reports of death threats and vandalism against perhaps a dozen Democratic lawmakers. Some Democrats started arguing that certain Republicans were encouraging the threats and the violence with their overheated rhetoric about the president and his supposedly socialist program. And in much of the mainstream media, in tone and in story selection, they adopted that view. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BRIAN WILLIAMS, NBC NEWS: It can now be said that the debate over health care reform has gone too far. It's now veered into threats of violence. SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, NBC NEWS (VOICE-OVER): On Twitter, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin told followers, "Don't retreat. Reload." DIANE SAWYER, ABC NEWS: It turns out angry opponents of the bill unleashed threatening phone calls, scathing words, even bricks thrown through windows. JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS (voice-over): On her Facebook page, crosshairs mark the districts of 17 Democratic lawmakers she wants to see defeated in November. ANN CURRY, NBC NEWS: Considering these threats, these concerns that we've been hearing about regarding violence, do you think, do you now recommend that your party use less incendiary language? And will you say that to her tomorrow? SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Ann, I have seen the rhetoric of targeted districts as long as I've been in politics. Please. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Leading Republicans have denounced the violence and accused the Democrats of playing political games. So, are journalists drawing unfair connections here or holding Republicans accountable for their rhetoric? Joining us now here in Washington, Lauren Ashburn, president of Ashburn Media and former managing editor of Gannett Broadcasting; Terence Smith, former media correspondent for the "NewsHour" on PBS; and David Zurawik, television and media critic for "The Baltimore Sun." Terry Smith, should the media be adopting this premise that there's a connection between some of these death threats and Sarah Palin's use of the word "reload"? TERENCE SMITH, FMR. MEDIA CORRESPONDENT, "NEWSHOUR": Well, the reload is loaded as a phrase, that's for sure. But, no. Basically, they ought to cover this as what it is, which is a law enforcement matter. I mean, this is -- some of the rhetoric, it goes beyond rhetoric. KURTZ: But when you say that reload is loaded, don't journalists routinely use such phrases as "targeting incumbents," "air wars," "battleground states?" SMITH: Howie, reload is loaded. Come on. You know, yes, they do. Of course they use kind of military, war-like phrases all the time. But that was not casually used. KURTZ: Lauren Ashburn, Sarah Palin responded to this at a rally yesterday. She called this whole argument a bunch of bunk. And the Fox News contributor turned to the reporters section and said, "We ask you for some fair and balanced reporting here." LAUREN ASHBURN, FMR. MANAGING EDITOR, GANNETT BROADCASTING: Well, you know, I think the problem here is that the leaders of the country are the ones using the hate and the rhetoric, and everybody else is sort of following along. Remember September 11th, when the towers went down and everybody rallied against hate? Right now what's happening now is in our country there is hate. We hearing words like "thuggery" and "recrimination" and "confrontation." And it's not until politicians I think understand that the real reason they're doing this is self-esteem that it's going to stop. KURTZ: David Zurawik, I'm also jumping on people like, say, Congressman Randy Neugebauer, who called Bart Stupak a baby killer on the floor. Then he apologized, and then he did a fund-raising video to capitalize on it. But the Republican National Committee putting up an ad that says "Fire Pelosi and her lot of flames," I mean, it seems to me like pretty standard political tactics. DAVID ZURAWIK, TELEVISION CRITIC, "THE BALTIMORE SUN": Oh, I think we're beyond that. I really do. When you looked at last Sunday night, and you saw that final speech by John Boehner when he was saying, "Hell no," I recorded it and I went back and played it to just freeze-frame his face and the tone. It was angry. And this was the latest. KURTZ: But how do you go from that, his passionate opposition, to a major program that does involve a lot of federal spending, to saying that Boehner and others are responsible for death threats and bullets in windows and that sort of thing? ZURAWIK: Because it's not just passionate opposition to the policy. He said you behaved shamefully. It's personal attacks. It's just like the language of "baby killer." And then that kind of disingenuous jujitsu when he said, oh, I said the bill was a baby killer. And then just as you explained, that is really upsetting and it's really, really dangerous. Howie, in his climate, when worrying right now with people losing jobs, all the really scary stuff that's happening in this country, for people like -- to go out there -- and especially the way Sarah Palin did, to put out that gun rhetoric into the middle of that, very dangerous and irresponsible. KURTZ: The conservative argument is that the media didn't seem quite so concerned with civility when protesters were calling George W. Bush a war criminal and a Nazi and that kind of overheated rhetoric as well. ASHBURN: I think -- let's stop it. I mean, let's stop talking about it. And can we just stop it? And I think that the only way we're going to stop it is to call people to task. There is one word for all of this, and it's kindergarten. I guarantee you that John McCain's kindergarten teacher would not have allowed him to cross his arms and say there will be no more cooperation for the rest of the year. This isn't how leaders are supposed to act on either side of the aisle. Let's just knock it off. SMITH: I think it's three to one against you, Howie. I mean, because it does go -- it does cross a line. It does go too far, and it ought to be reported that way. KURTZ: Where I was concerned was where you had Sean Hannity on Fox News openly doubting -- remember the rally at the capital last week when all the protesters showed up before the health care bill passed, and you had people like Barney Frank and people like John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver having the N-word hurled at them, and anti- gay epithets hurled at them, and Hannity says, well, how do we know it's even happening because there's no video of it? I mean, that's where I would have a problem. Let me turn the conversation slightly to the way the media have covered the president after the passage of the health care bill, finally got it through after 14 months. Let's take a look at some of the reports, including one -- there's one guy on the end there who doesn't like Barack Obama very much. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) HARRY SMITH, CBS NEWS (voice-over): Tonight, making history. The House hands President Obama his long-awaited victory on health care reform, a bill that inspires. SAWYER: Tonight on "World News," from Washington, making history. President Obama celebrates landmark changes in American health care. GLENN BECK, FOX NEWS: This vote on health care was the end of the Democratic Party as we know it. (END VIDEO CLIP) ASHBURN: Gosh. KURTZ: Have the mainstream media -- Glenn Beck aside, Terry Smith -- flipped from calling Obama the new Jimmy Carter to the new FDR? SMITH: Yes, they've flipped, but the facts on the ground flipped, too. Last summer, when they were most critical, Obama and his administration, they were in trouble. They were losing control of the debate over health care. And so it was reported that way. By the time the world had turned and the thing had changed, it was a major victory, and it was worth reporting. KURTZ: Maker victory, absolutely, but for months we heard journalists, columnist, pundits, Lauren, calling Barack Obama too cool, too cerebral, too professorial, too detached, too ineffective, too differential to the congressional leaders. And now? ASHBURN: We love to win and we love to lose, and we love to affiliate ourselves with the winners and the losers. And we do it when people win. You want to be associated with that. So, now, all of a sudden, oh, my gosh, he's not a failure. He is doing the great things. And now we can say, OK, let's promote the winner. Our country loves to be number one. Nobody wants to be number two. And we all want to report on who is number one. ZURAWIK: And Howie, it's not just that he won. Even before that, you know, the day before the vote last Saturday, when he came and made that speech to the House Congressional Democratic Caucus -- KURTZ: Yes. ZURAWIK: --- that was an inspirational speech. That was as good as it ever gets. And I think Americans -- at least I did -- I saw something there where a guy was down and said, A, sometimes in our lives we find out what we're really about, and this is what I'm about. If I go down with this, fine. But I'm going to go down with it. And I think people react -- I know I did as a viewer. I said I'm with this guy right now. ASHBURN: Finally, we saw the Barack Obama of the campaign. He came back, and it was from losing the Olympic bid to this health care mess. KURTZ: Yes. ASHBURN: And all of a sudden, here he is. KURTZ: It was a very emotional speech. And I don't think it got the kind of coverage it deserved, because it was so unlike the Obama we had seen for the last 14 months. ZURAWIK: Yes, that's exactly it. KURTZ: Well, we know what the conservative position here is. "The Weekly Standard," if we can get the camera on here, says, "Repeal." And let me talk about the pundits on this. Speaking of "The Weekly Standard," Fred Barnes wrote back in January -- if we've got a graphic on that -- "The health care bill Obamacare is dead, with not the slightest prospect of resurrection." And here is Chris Matthews in an interview with Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, telling him -- well, you'll see what he told him about the idea that health care could pass in the Senate through reconciliation. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. ALAN GRAYSON (D), FLORIDA: Reconciliation is 51 votes, not 60 votes. CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: What do you mean -- you can't create a program through reconciliation. GRAYSON: You can create an amendment. MATTHEWS: Nobody's ever done with. GRAYSON: The bill's already passed the 60 votes. MATTHEWS: Name a program, Congressman. Just name me the program that's ever been created through reconciliation. Name one. One. GRAYSON: As I said, tax cuts for the rich was -- MATTHEWS: That's not a program. Under reconciliation you're allowed to do two things -- change fiscal numbers. You're allowed to raise taxes or cut program spending. You cannot create something. (END VIDEO CLIP) ASHBURN: Videotape is a wonderful thing. (LAUGHTER) KURTZ: It's not that Matthews turned out to be wrong. There's a lot of that going on. It's that he's mocking his guest for taking this position. SMITH: Well, I mean, it's a good thing in the end that Chris didn't run for the Senate, because the rules got away from him there. KURTZ: Mr. television critic? ZURAWIK: What? ASHBURN: What. KURTZ: Is that good television? ZURAWIK: Oh, it's great television! Howie, it's incredible television. Are you kidding? But it also shows -- yes, it also shows what -- how foolish cable television can also be in this. And that's part of the larger issue that we're talking about here in terms of how they're throwing fuel on the fire. That -- KURTZ: How foolish when people try to predict the future, which is something I very studiously avoid doing because sometimes you're wrong. Let's get a break here. When we come back, ABC hands over big bucks to a woman now accused of murder. Can this payment possibly be justified? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: When Casey Anthony's daughter went missing nearly two years ago, ABC devoted considerable attention to the story on "Good Morning America" and "20/20," showing exclusive photos and videos of the mom and her toddler. Casey Anthony was charged with child neglect that day, and weeks later indicted for murdering young Kelly. But only now are we learning from court proceedings that ABC News paid Anthony a whopping $200,000 for the material. And Lauren Ashburn, I know that networks these days often pay for these kinds of pictures in big cases, but do you find this offensive? ASHBURN: Of course. Well, actually, somebody needs to stimulate the economy, right? Now, come on. I mean, everybody who's a journalist is going to say no, this is ridiculous. Why would you be paying that amount of money? And it all comes down to the bottom line of ratings and money from advertisers, and keeping the news relevant. You know, we're cutting 25 percent -- ABC cut 25 percent of its news staff, and it has to somehow show that it can entice viewers in this age of the Internet. KURTZ: ABC did not get an interview as a result, but let me read a statement from NBC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. "It was a mistake not to disclose the payment to our viewers. We've instituted a policy going forward that if someone is a subject of a story and there's any arrangement made to license material from them, that will be disclosed to our viewers." But that, David Zurawik, doesn't address whether the payment was a bad idea in the first place. ZURAWIK: They say, oh, the answer is we'll disclose in the future. They shouldn't have made the payment. I was astonished by their first response. And now to see Schneider go it again, double down on it, that's not the problem. And Howie, this has escalated. As Lauren said, it's mainly the morning shows and the magazine -- primetime magazine shows where the big money is where they'll do it. And we used to be -- really, we used to really jump on it. There are so many problems now in the media that we almost let this slide, but we shouldn't. SMITH: It goes beyond checkbook journalism. This is checkbook tabloidism. It's creepy, frankly. It's creepy. ASHBURN: But let's take a look. OK. Everybody this week, everybody from society professional journalists, to people like us, have said this is terrible, this is horrible. OK. It's terrible, it's horrible. Now let's step back and look at the big picture. The news industry right now is under fire, and they're going to start aligning content and advertising, and advertising is going to start making the needle move this way when it comes to ethical guidelines and ethical rules. So, let's learn from this and let's figure out how we can make the newspaper industry and the television industry strong without breaking ethical rules. KURTZ: Well, I don't think -- SMITH: Two hundred thousand dollars? This is the same ABC News, is it, that just, as you said, laid off 25 percent, 400 people, 25 percent of its news force? Two hundred thousand dollars? KURTZ: These kinds of payments always make me uncomfortable and always make me feel that the way of getting around the restrictions they all say they abide by it, which is we don't pay for news. Let me hold you up, Lauren Ashburn, because there's one other topic I want to get to before we go that I know you want to talk about. ASHBURN: Oh, thanks. KURTZ: A little bit of a lighter subject, but it's gotten a lot of attention on the morning shows. Not so much elsewhere. Let's roll the tape. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JUJU CHANG, ABC NEWS: We turn now to the latest on Sandra Bullock's marital woes. There are reports this morning that her estranged husband is telling friends he is hoping for forgiveness from the recent Oscar winner. Will she forgive him? NATALIE MORALES, NBC NEWS: Sandra Bullock, of course, moved out of her house after revelations and allegations that her husband, Jesse James, may have been having an affair for 11 months with a tattooed stripper. A.J. HAMMER, HEADLINE NEWS: Big news breaking today on "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT," Sandra Bullock's brand new humiliation over her husband's alleged cheating. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Here is my question. Everybody is talking about this. She just won an Oscar. There hasn't been a word on this in "The New York Times" or in "USA Today," where you used to work. There's been one paragraph in the gossip column of "The Washington Post," nothing on the network newscasts. Do serious news outlets sometimes just sort of pretend that these things aren't going on? ASHBURN: Well, they are not in touch with the conversation that is really happening in America. People love this stuff. And why do they love it? Here's a woman who has an Oscar, she has a hot body, she's got great clothes. Right? And now she has a cheating husband. OK. So, now, my self-esteem has risen because hers has been taken down. And it's the same thing with politics. KURTZ: I'm glad there's some benefit. Now, you're talking about Jesse James. The tattooed alleged stripper, Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, sold her story -- ASHBURN: Oh, come on. This is why you're doing this. You just want to say that. KURTZ: -- to "In Touch" magazine. It's about "In Touch" magazine paying for this. ZURAWIK: Howie, you know, listen, my belief is this -- and it's sort of goes with Lauren, my belief is this -- if there is a large audience out there interested in it, there is usually something going on that's important sociologically with the story. ASHBURN: That's my point, right. ZURAWIK: And our job as journalists is to find what's going on sociologically with the story and try to explain it. That's the honorable way to do this. SMITH: Am I the last man in America who has never even heard of Jesse James? ZURAWIK: Yes, you are. ASHBURN: Yes, probably. Here. Wait Let me find you "In Touch" for you here. SMITH: I am so out of it, it's pathetic. (CROSSTALK) ASHBURN: You have the meat and potatoes, but you can have some dessert, too. Why not? KURTZ: All right. We've just served it up for you. Thanks, guys. Coming up in the second half of RELIABLE SOURCES, is the rush for online scoops helping or hurting Washington journalism? The editors of Politico weigh in. Plus, conservative blogger Erick Erickson on the heated criticism of CNN's decision to hire him as a contributor. And the sports channels that got Tiger to talk, but all too briefly. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: It's become a media brand name in a remarkably short period of time. Politico, as you probably know, is a Web site and a Capitol Hill newspaper that is, of course, fixated on politics. It was launched just over three years ago by two former "Washington Post" reporters, who in turn hired many other journalists from the so-called old media. And it's contributed to a speeded up media where scoops are measured in seconds. That's been controversial at times, but it sure has changed the playing field. Last week, we brought you an editorial meeting from the Politico newsroom, of course, over the river in Virginia. Now here is my conversation with the founding editors. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Scott Harris, Jim VandeHei, welcome. A phrase that is often associated with Politico, I guess, my your star columnist, Mike Allen, is "Win the morning." What does it mean to win the morning? JOHN HARRIS, POLITICO: Well, nobody wins more mornings than Mike Allen does. And we use the phrase a little bit lightheartedly, but it's got a serious meaning behind it, because Politico is a 24/7 operation Web operation. I think we're attuned to the different and changing rhythms by which the audience gets news. And we think it's really important to be putting a lot of our best content out in the morning and to be driving the news story in the morning. That's a different rhythm than the one I grew up with at "The Washington Post," where the most, sort of intense reporting activities were in the late afternoon, early evening, as we approached deadline for the next day's paper. KURTZ: You both spent your whole career in newspapers. Jim, how is it different working in -- I mean, you have a print edition, but you're very focussed on this Web site. How is it different? How is life different? JIM VANDEHEI, POLITICO: Well, I think the speed is definitely different. We don't think about what's going to be happening at night. We're thinking about sort of a continuum of different news cycles, and particularly when you're talking about winning the morning. Like, one of the things that I think a lot about, that we think a lot about is that most of the information consumption that's done by the people that matter in this town is largely done between 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. After that, you're in a meeting, you're too busy to sit down with a newspaper. You're probably too busy or sit at a Web site and read a full story. Our feeling is if you can shape that conversation early in the morning, set the agenda for what the cable stations will be talking about, the networks what other reporters are following, you're already one step ahead of the competition. So, our feeling is, is if you can help shape that conversation early in the morning, help set the agenda for what the cable stations will be talking about, what the networks will be talking about that night, what other reporters are following, that you're already one step ahead of the competition. KURTZ: And one of the ways you win in the Internet business is to get a lot of clicks, a lot of hits on your various stories. I was just looking. This morning, you have got the "44" column, you've got Mike Allen's "Playbook," "Live Pulse," "Morning Score," "Pulse," "Huddle," "Click." Are these all features that you developed in order to get more people to click more often? HARRIS: We like getting traffic, and we get a lot of it. You know, the Editor & Publisher, or Neilsen net ratings, which is the one we pay most attention to, typically puts us in the top 10 among newspaper Web sites nationally. So we love it when people see our content. That's great. Our fundamental model is not driven by traffic. It's trying to be as essential to the conversation of Washington insiders, people who live and breathe this, whose careers depend upon it. That's a rather small audience. Our core audience is kind of at the center of the circle. That's the one we care about. And that's not chasing traffic. That's not chasing a huge number. But for the readers who matter most to us, is does our content matter to them? Is it indispensable? If we can answer that with a yes, then we're succeeding. If not, or somebody else beats us to it, then we're not. KURTZ: Well, it's interesting, because you're sort of constantly on deadline in a way that newspapers never used to be. Is the need for speed sometimes at odds with the depth of reporting, the substance? I mean, we live in an age where you kind of throw up what you have. VANDEHEI: I think it can be intention. I think to be a first- class news organization, you have to do both. I think you can do the quick hits, you can do the information that people need to know at that moment. I think one of the problems with conventional journalism, at last the way I practiced it for most of my career, is the truth is people weren't reading our stories. We might write a thousand words, but people were only reading for about 200 words of information. And often, 250, 500 words will suffice. And I think what we try to do is balance getting people the quick-hit information that is quite perishable, but also take the time then to sit back, when a piece deserves a thousand words, deserves a couple days of real thinking, of real editing. And if you can provide that mix, then I think it's mission accomplished. Then we're doing what we need to do. We're informing readers, we're educating our readers and we're keeping people in the loop. (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: But since you can measure how every single story does, every column, every item, does that influence and, some might say, distort news judgment? I mean, if it turns out that story is about lobbying, and don't do that well in terms of traffic, would you shy away from doing more lobbying stories? HARRIS: Well, I go back to the point that the point is connecting with the audience and the readers who matter most to us. And -- KURTZ: But you're not just writing for inside the beltway. You've got a lot more traffic than that. HARRIS: We absolutely do. We want both. We want a large national impact, and we also want to be indispensable here in Washington. So, different reporters would sort of measure success in different ways. I'm not expecting a reporter who covers an essential for policy subject or covers lobbying in Washington to be among our huge traffic drivers. KURTZ: It's interesting. You keep talking about this driving the conversation. You don't really feel like you've succeeded unless you are either in the middle of a debate or starting a debate or getting people talking about what you're doing at Politico. But does that lead to -- I mean, a while back you did a story about Obama's team was sort of starting to talk about who would play roles in the 2012 re-election campaign. But a lot of people said, well, of course he's gearing up for 2012, where is the great scoop here? But you played it as your lead story. VANDEHEI: Right, but that was like a great piece of reporting by Mike Allen that had a lot of internal intrigue, that gave you an idea of who might do what for the campaign in 2012. And I think for our audience, for political junkies, that's crack. People love that stuff. People want to know who's up, who's down. And I think you can do those pieces and you can do very sensitive health care coverage. KURTZ: So you're basically are dope suppliers. (CROSSTALK) VANDEHEI: We're basically -- to our junkie audience. We do think a lot about our audience as sort of -- like, they are political compulsives, they're political junkies. They thrive on this stuff. They know a lot of information, and so the bar is kind of high to make sure that you're telling them something that they don't know, or giving them a new analytical context to view information. So you're able to help them do their job better, help then understand politics better, help them understand Washington better. KURTZ: Is there such a thing as being too far inside and therefore missing the larger landscape? HARRIS: I mean, there's such a thing. That's why you have to do both. You know, if you've been in this business, you've got to sort of walk and chew gum at the same time. Politico is not edited for the casual observer of politics who maybe once a week wants to check in from wherever they live in Minneapolis or San Francisco, and say I wonder what's happening in the political world? Those people are welcome, and they might enjoy it, but we fundamentally edit this publication for the people who are clicking three, four, five, half a dozen times a day, who aren't casual observers of this but are intensive observers. And in most cases, also participants in this process. KURTZ: How many editorial employees do you have roughly? HARRIS: I think that we are around 70, 75. KURTZ: So, is one reason that you're trying to be part of the conversation and cater to the insiders is because, I mean, look, we're in Washington, there's a zillion news organizations here, the big networks, big bureaus here, "Washington Post," "New York Times," and so forth, and you need to have turf that's somewhat different, or do you see yourself as playing on the same turf? VANDEHEI: I mean, I think there's a lot of people covering politics. What we focus on -- and we're kind of confined by our name of Politico, so we're going to be -- it's going to have -- KURTZ: You have no sports section. VANDEHEI: We have no sports section. We're not going to -- KURTZ: Do you ever talk about sports here? VANDEHEI: We're not going to have a metro section. We're going to talk about politics and governance. And our ambitions -- and some day we hit it, some days we don't -- are we want to be the dominant Washington news organization, and that requires a pretty big editorial staff, probably bigger than the one we have right now. It requires us to expand or reach into other topics that we might not be covering as heavy as we are, say, health care right now. But that's what we want to be able to accomplish as a company. KURTZ: Could you ever see charging for some of this content? HARRIS: It's conceivable. I've never -- the bet that Jim and I and our publisher, Robert Allbritton, who's I think really one of the true visionaries in terms of media right now, and the kind of aggressive commitment he's made to expanding media, the bet we placed is on information as a niche. I think the way to succeed in media these days is to define your niche that you want to own and then work to dominate that. And that can work as a business, because when you've got such a highly defined and attractive audience, advertisers want to be next to that content, so you can make a lot of money that way. But the difference I go back to is we define ourselves by dominating a niche. You don't come to Politico for Washington Redskins news or for D.C. City Council news. That's different than the sort of broad focus that major metropolitan papers have typically. KURTZ: But even on the political battlefield, do you think that newspapers have become too bland, too cautious, too dull? Or are they now adapting to try to compete with you because everybody has got a Web site and newspapers like "The Washington Post" have bloggers, and "The New York Times" has the "Caucus" column and all that? VANDEHEI: I think everybody is adapting. The days of sitting back and saying the Web is not for real -- and it was real. I remember when I was at "The Washington Post" three years ago, there was a lot of folks, to be honest, like ourselves included at times, thinking, well, if this Web is -- and maybe I should do a couple more videos or something for the Web, but did not think it would have a dominant presence. Everybody knows it's the dominant vehicle right now, so everybody is trying to play catch-up. I think the advantage we have is that we focus, laser-like, just on politics and Washington governance. So if you're "The Washington Post" or "The New York Times," yes, you have a very robust bureau. But still, ,you have to focus on so many different topics. You have to do style. You have to do business. You have to do politics. You have to do government, foreign policy coverage. So it's harder to dominate six or seven things simultaneously. We're very focused and I think our readers appreciate that we're very focused because they know exactly what they're going to get every morning when they wake up and they log on. KURTZ: What's your greatest frustration? What do you wish you could do more of? HARRIS: Being interesting every single day is hard work. That challenge is no different than the one I had when I was at "The Washington Post." But being interesting every single day and -- (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: Because people are not getting this home-delivered to their doorstep. They have to make a firm decision to click on to this and not "The Huffington Post" or "The Daily Beast," or the "L.A. Times" or "The New York Times" or the network Web sites or the cable Web sites. HARRIS: You've got to keep the conversation going all the time. Ben Smith, who's one of our most popular bloggers, he says you can't just coast -- if you're going to be a successful blogger, you can't coast for a week. You can't go on vacation for a week and let the blog go dead. He does go on vacation, but when he does, we make sure that he gets a great substitute writer in there trying to keep that conversation alive. You can't -- KURTZ: You are in favor of people going on vacation? HARRIS: I'm all in favor of people going on vacation and getting their batteries recharged. KURTZ: But there's a lot of pressure. HARRIS: But I am not -- everybody here is acutely conscious of we can't let the conversation die. Because even for a few minutes, you know that audience has expectations. And if those expectations aren't being met in this competitive world, they'll go elsewhere. KURTZ: John Harris, Jim VandeHei, thanks very much for letting us into the newsroom. (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Our conversation at Politico, part of Allbriton Media. The company owns local television stations, some of which are CNN affiliates. Up next, Erick Erickson of RedState.com. CNN's latest contributor came with a history of some inflammatory comments. We'll ask him about them after the break. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Erick Erickson made his debut this week as a CNN contributor. He is a Georgia lawyer, a church deacon, and managing editor of the conservative Web site RedState.com. Erickson's hiring generated a great deal of publicity, most of the decidedly negative variety. I spoke with him earlier from Atlanta. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Erick Erickson, welcome. ERICK ERICKSON, MANAGING EDITOR, REDSTATE.COM: Thanks for having me. KURTZ: You have been getting hammered by liberal commentators since CNN decided to bring you on as a contributor to John King's program, and it all revolves around the things that you have written. So let's just go through some of them. ERICKSON: Right. KURTZ: On the administration's health care spokeswoman, you wrote, "Linda Douglass is really the Joseph Goebbels of the health care shop." You're comparing her to a notorious Nazi? ERICKSON: Yes, to propaganda. I probably shouldn't have said that. And to be honest with you, I got her confused with one of the congressman who, the same day she came out and was urging people to begin e-mailing in to the White House the -- forwarding on the e-mails from friends who were "misrepresenting" the president's health care plan, a congressman came out and referred to people as "brownshirts." And I got my wires crossed that day and thought, you know, if they're going to go down that road, I will too. I probably shouldn't have, but I did. KURTZ: Yes. And She never said that, and she assures me that she never said that. The first lady, you wrote the following -- the headline was, "Is Obama shagging hookers behind the media's back?" And you write, "I assume not. I assume that Obama's Marxist harpy wife would go Lorena Bobbit on him should he even think about it." Why would you describe Michelle Obama in those terms? ERICKSON: Well, you know, back during the campaign trail in 2008, a lifetime ago, frankly, in blogging, I was very passionate, very aggressive in defending my side. And at the time that I wrote that, the Eliot Spitzer story was breaking, and the point was -- distracted by the language, obviously -- that Barack Obama was as much a creature of the media as Eliot Spitzer was. Neither have been investigated. And, you know, since that time, I've really learned, headed into, frankly, the David Souter comment, that I don't have to get personal in blogging to make my point. I've definitely evolved over time. KURTZ: Well, let's deal with the David Souter comment. When Justice Souter announced his retirement, you said, you wrote, "The nation loses the only goat (EXPLETIVE) child molester ever to serve on the Supreme Court." Do you regret writing that? ERICKSON: Yes, absolutely. It was about the dumbest thing I've done. You know, counterintuitively, I guess, some good came out of it. It was the very first time I realized, Howard, how what I do for a living affects my family as well. Having my 3-year-old heckled and booed in the front yard by a neighbor, having my wife be berated at her office, you know, being a blogger, up until that moment I always considered I was just a guy chatting with friends, even on Twitter. And I realized that I actually reached a point where people listen to what I say and care about what I say, and frankly it was a wake-up call to me that I had to grow up in how I write. KURTZ: Well, ,you know, at a time when there's this great debate about threats against Democratic -- mostly Democratic and some Republican lawmakers in the health care debate, I stumbled upon something you wrote about a Washington State controversy in which you said, "At what point do people march down to their state legislator's house, pull them aside and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?" Now, I assume you were being metaphorical, but some people might react differently to that. ERICKSON: You know, the left tried to blow that one up, and I've written subsequently about that with a legislator in New York who wants to ban salt in restaurants. And I think the point is valid. The left may not like it. I'm a local legislator myself, and I am afraid and have been since that time that we're reaching a point where reasonable people are just going to get kind of crazy with government intrusion in their lives. The particular case in that situation was Washington State banning phosphates from dishwasher detergent. KURTZ: Yes. I understand, but I'm just talking about your language. Let me make sure I understand now. Are you now, on RedState.com, going to forcefully make your arguments -- and nobody disputes your right do that -- without these inflammatory personal attacks? ERICKSON: Yes, I think so. I mean, I've definitely had to grow up over time and realize that it's not just me and friends anymore. I think everyone understands you talk in ways with friends and about things with friends you don't in public. And in some ways, when you talk about things in private and in public, you sometimes use different language. And I've definitely had to grow up and realize I am someone now on a national stage and a platform, and what I say and write affects not just me and my family, but others. KURTZ: I've got half a minute here. This week, David Frum, the conservative author and columnist, frequent guest on this program, was forced out by the American Enterprise Institute after he called the health care vote the Republicans' Waterloo and criticized it as a big defeat. Does the right have a lack of tolerance for dissent? ERICKSON: Oh, good lord, no. You know, David Frum, I think, is disingenuous to a degree. Yesterday -- or I guess it was earlier this past week -- said that he wasn't forced out because of his Waterloo comment. He was forced out because he wasn't spending any time at AEI. In fact, in talking to several people at AEI, they've all said the same thing, he was never there and never participated. And his story has evolved and the criticisms have evolved. David Frum is one of those Republicans who calls himself still a conservative when it's clear to me he has evolved, but people still call him that. KURTZ: All right. Well, "never" might be overstating it slightly. Erick Erickson, glad we had a chance to talk to you about this. Thanks very much for joining us. ERICKSON: Thanks very much. (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: David Frum says he was very productive during his time at the American Enterprise Institute, having written three books, a thousand columns, and made untold TV appearances. And with AEI under going pressure from conservative donors, Frum says, his firing came just a day after a "Wall Street Journal" editorial denouncing him for criticizing the Republican Party. In a moment, it's the first Sunday since the health care law passed. Candy Crowley will help us break down what's being talked about on the talk shows. That's next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Time now for a look at what's happening on the other Sunday shows. Here's Candy Crowley. CANDY CROWLEY, HOST, "STATE OF THE UNION": We were watching the other Sunday shows and sort of seeing what everybody out there is talking about. We opened our show saying it's over. We've got a health care vote, it's now health care reform law. Let me just amend that a little. It's all over but the voting -- but the shouting. Because what's happened is we've moved arenas. It's just gone from the legislative arena to the political. Take a listen. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: It is a house of cards. It is a Ponzi scheme of the first order. It's going to blow up the deficit. It's going to affect every business, every family in this country. It was done by one-party rule, and it was a shame we had to go down this road. (END VIDEO CLIP) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER (D), NEW YORK: Six months from now, by election time, this is going to be a plus, because the parade of horrible, particularly the worry that the average middle class person has that this is going to affect them negatively, will have vanished and they'll see that it will affect them positively. (END VIDEO CLIP) CROWLEY: You know, one of the other big issues obviously has been the whole issue of civility. Who started all of this? Did the Republicans? Did they really add to the furor? Did they incite people to throw bricks? Did the Democrats take advantage of it? We found one Democrat at "STATE OF THE UNION," Senator Barbara Mikulski, who did agree that perhaps Democrats should not have fund- raised off of some of these attacks. She called it strident. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (D), MARYLAND: If we don't take ourselves seriously and act in a serious way, we're not going to be taken seriously by the American people. I have a suggestion. Let's go back to the three Rs: respect, rules of engagement that promote decorum. And number three, stop the reward system that enables you to raise a lot of money after using outrageous and bizarre behavior. (END VIDEO CLIP) CROWLEY: So far, no takers on the three Rs, but hope springs eternal for a little civility in politics. Last issue, as you know, the president made some recess appointments. That is, putting people in office that the Senate had had not yet confirmed. KURTZ: Exactly. CROWLEY: This is always incendiary. In particular, this time around for an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, which Republicans had expressly asked the president not to make a recess appointment. He, of course, did that. Two very different views this morning. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DAVID AXELROD, WHITE HOUSE SR. ADVISER: We are in a position where the Republican Party has taken a position where we're going to try and slow and block progress on all fronts, whether it's legislation or appointments. (END VIDEO CLIP) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER (R), TENNESSEE: What it's called is checks and balances. And what the president has done here is throw fuel on the fire at a time when the civil -- when the debate about politics is a very angry debate to begin with. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Candy, this the off-lead (ph) of "The New York Times" saying that this is a president who is now unafraid to provoke a confrontation with the minority party. George W. Bush appointed 15 recess appointees in the same period of time when he was president. CROWLEY: He did. And also, not a president afraid to go ahead and do some things that area -- we know from the itinerary. We've just received word, a little breaking news for you here in your show, that President Obama has just landed in Kabul, Afghanistan. For obvious reasons, this isn't something they like to make public ahead of time. So far as I recall, the president has not been to Afghanistan since becoming president, so a very big trip for the president because, after all, as we have said many times, this has really become his war. This is the man who has sent more troops there than George W. Bush did. Now in Kabul, obviously getting the lay of the land there. KURTZ: He's made it his war by sending more troops, and he is now guaranteed that this is going to be probably the major story this week moving on from health care, his presence in Afghanistan. And that's quite a move on Obama's part. CROWLEY: It is. And they think that they have had some successes there, although they do understand as well that the more Americans you put in Afghanistan for what they believe to be a just war, the more targets you have out there. So always a tricky situation, to be a wartime commander-in-chief, but indeed Barack Obama is. KURTZ: Candy Crowley, thanks. We'll be right back. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: You've heard me sound off about how Tiger Woods had to get out of the bunker. No way could he head into the Masters and keep ducking the press and hope to keep the focus on golf. This week, he gave in. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ (voice-over): Now, lots of people said I was wrong. The scripted, stage-managed apology was enough. That, at least, is what Barbara Walters told me. BARBARA WALTERS, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": I have said publicly that I don't think Tiger Woods should do an interview, because I think that he made his statement. I think he did his apology. I think he has to get his life back and get his wife back. And to sit down with a journalist like myself, or like you, well, what about the first one, what about the third one? KURTZ: That's true. And yet, Tiger was sitting on a pressure cooker. Much of the public was not going to accept his return to golf unless he stopped stiffing the press. Ari Fleischer undoubtedly gave him that advice when the former White House spokesman signed on as an adviser. So Tiger tried to lower the temperature a bit by granting interviews, not to some big-name anchor, but to reporters for The Golf Channel and ESPN. And while Woods stonewalled about what happened during his Thanksgiving night crash, when he was either pursued or rescued by his wife, he did answer most of the questions about his serial infidelity. KELLY TILGHMAN, THE GOLF CHANNEL: Were there moments you thought you should stop but didn't? TIGER WOODS, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: Yes. I tried to stop and I couldn't stop. And it was just -- it was horrific. TILGHMAN: You went from being recognized as the greatest golfer in the world to becoming a punch line. How did that make you feel? WOODS: It was hurtful. But then again, you know what? I did it. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You said you've made transgressions. How would you in your own words describe the depth of your infidelity? WOODS: Well, just one is enough. And obviously that wasn't the case. And I made my mistakes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why not seek treatment before all of this came out? WOODS: Well, I didn't know I was that bad. I didn't know I was that bad. KURTZ: Tiger's team limited those interviews to just five minutes. That prompted CBS Sports president Sean McManus, whose network will carry the Masters, to reject the chance to conduct a third interview with Tiger. And ESPN's Tom Rinaldi acknowledged that he could only get so far. TOM RINALDI, ESPN: This interview, ,in a five-minute limitation, is not conclusive, nor is it comprehensive, nor will it stop so many of the other questions that so many other people have about Tiger Woods over the last four months. KURTZ: But it was a start. And you know what? President Obama has limited his interviews to five minutes when he's done a round of them with network correspondents. It ain't great, but sometimes in journalism you take what you can get. (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Those Tiger interviews aired last Sunday night, just as the House was passing the health care law. Coincidence? I don't think so. Thanks for joining us here in our new studio. Now "STATE OF THE UNION" with Candy Crowley.


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I'm hosting this month's T-SQL Tuesday blog party, but that doesn't mean I can't participate. I posted the invitation last week, and hopefully we'll have a large number of people participating today.
The Cost of HADR
I've dealt with a lot of business people over the years, and for a variety of reasons. At one job, I worked for a small company, literally about 50 people, and we had a number of systems critical to our business. We had a large fax server, receiving hundreds of faxes a day from overseas. We had a large imaging server/platform in which we stored our faxes along with quite a bit of other business correspondence that we needed a record of, and we had an inventory management/sales system running on SQL Server that people used every day to run the business.
These were all important systems, and if they were down, business would slow to a crawl. The owner of the company wanted to take advantage of all our technology and mandated "no downtime" and "zero data loss" to my boss, the VP of sales for the company. He was, of course, happy to push this down to me as a goal for the next year.
This was in 1997, and as I investigated our possibilities for achieving this, I realized very quickly that it wasn't a good move for the company. Clustering in SQL Server v6.5 was shaky and hard to install and maintain. Marathon Technologies had a machine that was basically a "cluster-in-box" that would do a lot of what we wanted, but it would have been around a $30k server. Since our two SQL Servers cost about $7k together, this didn't seem like a great solution to me.
Instead I investigated what downtime cost us. What would it cost in terms of work and salary if we had to re-enter data that might be lost. We had been down for various periods of time due to different events, and the business had survived, even one day when we were shut completely down for 2 days.
It quickly came to light that we'd have to be down for over a week to really cost the business more than $30k, and that was debatable. We could still conduct lots of work on paper and over the phone, so it didn't make sense to aim for zero data loss and zero downtime. I explained it to my boss, laid out a simple case for him with a few numbers highlighted, and the provided an alternative for investment in a little redundancy, designed to minimize losses, but not prevent them.
In the end the big boss agreed. He hadn't really meant zero loss, after all, anyone in business knows that there are always going to be some losses. What he wanted was his business to keep running, cost effectively. That's what we gave him at a much more reasonable price.


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Well, now that we are moving in a little over a month to Colorado, this bucket list feels more like a daunting task hanging over our heads and less like a fun way of site seeing. Now we have a mission.
We still have to visit the White House, the Pentagon, the Capitol, and all the Smithsonian museums that we've missed.
duck tour of the city. You ride around a World War II amphibious vehicle through the Mall and then into the Potomac and back around the city for 90 minutes. Captain Wayne pointed out all sorts of interesting stuff that we never would have noticed even though we've walked by them a million times. Austin even got to drive it! Sure, you look goofy doing it, but don't let that deter you from having a good time. Best part? The captain gives you a "quacker" halfway through :)
I've got no good way to tie that story together with this recipe for Avocado Pesto Pasta. Sorry, I've got nothing for you. Well, that's not exactly true, I have a delicious, easy, weeknight meal for you :)
Recipe slightly adapted from A Cozy Kitchen
1 handful fresh basil
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1/2 box linguine
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1. Bring water to a boil and cook noodles according to package directions.
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Anyone who followed along with the 25 Days of Pride & Prejudice last year knows I have a fond spot in my heart for statistics. So why should this year be any different? 😘
Yesterday I asked everyone on our Facebook and Twitter pages to tell us their favorite moment in the 1995 Sense & Sensibility and your answers were… very specific!
I tallied hundreds of votes up, found the top 10, and threw in a few honorable mentions for good measure.
Let's start with No. 1!
First Place
The Proposal
Far and away, the winner and number one favorite scene mentioned was Edward's awkward proposal to a sobbing Elinor.
Whether it was his awkward explaining of the situation, the way Mrs. Dashwood ushers Marianne and Margaret out of the room posthaste, the way Margaret climbs up into her treehouse and starts a running commentary of events, or Elinor's sobbing (oh my god, so many of you love the sobbing!) this scene is SO. MANY. people's favorite. Of course, it's easy to see why: It's the culmination of everything we've been hoping for since the first 15 minutes of the movie… and isn't it so nice to Elinor get what she wanted after so much sacrifice?
Second Place
Colonel Brandon & Sick Marianne
For the sake of… well, let's be honest, for the sake of my sanity, I rolled together pretty much every vote for any scene between Marianne being carried by Brandon all the way to her thanking him at the door when her fever has broken.
A TON of people though, specifically called out the scene where he says "Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad…"
Y'all realllllly love that deep voice, don't you 😏
Other sickbed scenes that really stood out to our voters where when Marianne finally recognizes Brandon's help and says "thank you," and also when Brandon carries her through the rain, only giving one, manly stumble right at the end. *Le swoon*
Third Place
Many voters told us you love the sorority between Elinor and Marianne — and more than a few of you side fully with Elinor every time she has to put her own feelings aside to comfort her younger sister!
But also, many of you pointed out the scenes where Elinor cries over Marianne's sickbed, their fun and funny moments together, and how deep and real their sisterly love is.
All I have to say is, sisters before misters 😘✌🏻
Fourth Place
Love At First Sight
My personal favorite comes in fourth, when Colonel Brandon sees Marianne at the piano, and falls in love.
To be honest, most of you just responded with this gif and I counted that as a vote for this scene because YASSS ❤❤❤
Fifth Place
Brandon The Poet
This scene is just too, too sweet. Brandon — finally appreciated by a recuperating (and chastened) Marianne — is reading her poetry and she asks him not to stay away too long. It's the first real glimpse we have of their budding relationship, and the first promise of something good happening for dear Colonel Brandon. (Not to mention, any scene that Alan Rickman reads poetry in is a good one!)
Speaking of any Alan Rickman scene…
Sixth Place
Literally Any Alan Rickman Scene
Yes Katie, apparently it is! And for those of you wondering, yes, SO MANY of you voted distinctly for different scenes featuring Colonel Brandon IN ADDITION TO so many people voting specifically for "Any Alan Rickman scene" that it warranted its own entry!
Seventh Place
Lucy Steele Gets A Beatdown
Eighth Place
Mr. Palmer's Eyerolls
Y'all love you some Regency-era House, don't you?
Mr. Palmer's droll wit and surprisingly tender side when it comes to the Sisters Dashwood comes in at number 8. I will admit Hugh Laurie looks very dashing in a top hat and cravat. 😍 And I think some of you may be brewing up some steamy AU fanfic where Elinor and Mr. Palmer get together… (If you are actually doing this, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME!)
Ninth Place
Edward and… Margaret?
This is actually adorable — a bunch of you said your favorite scenes were with Edward and Margaret: the "Abyssinia"/Atlas scene, when he play-swordfights with her, when he keeps his promise to send her the atlas, and generally just treating her with respect and kindness. Many of you said you saw that as a mark of Edward's good character.
Tenth Place
The Wedding
OF COURSE the wedding made the favorite scenes list! It's the denouement of everything and is so sweet. (By the way, did you know that the scene is not a double wedding? I always assumed Elinor and Edward coming out of the church meant they'd all gotten married at the same time, but no, Elinor was the matron of honor and Edward was the parson for Marianne and Brandon. You learn something new every day!)
So that's the official Top Ten, but I'd love to share a few Honorable Mentions…
Tea On The Stairs
Sad Willoughby Stares
What about you!? Did your favorite make the list? Tell us in the comments! What scene from the novel do you wish had been included? What scene from the movie do you wish was Austen canon?


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BC Hydro claims a Mission homeowner is ultimately liable for a fire that originated at the base of a smart meter one day after it was installed.
A report by the Mission fire department said the blaze, which destroyed Trish Regan's house in the 7900-block of Burdock Street and leaped to the roof of a neighbouring home on June 15, originated at an insulating "lug" in the lower left corner of the meter base. The report says the terminal, which attached the meter base to the home, appeared cracked and "radiated heat to combust the wall at or near the meter base."
The base is the mounting plate for the meter, which measures how much electricity a home consumes during each utility-service billing period. Electricity must pass from the meter through the lugs to connect with the house wiring.
BC Hydro maintains the meter base is part of the house and thus any damage or faulty wiring is the customer's responsibility.
Spokeswoman Cindy Verschoor said the Crown corporation has fixed about 1,000 homes with faulty or damaged wiring before it installed the smart meters, but residents should be ensuring they have electricians check the wiring regularly.
"We are fixing that for the customer free of charge as long as they give us permission," she said. "Those are cases of a fire risk. They are potential accidents waiting to happen.
"We're always [doing work] on good faith that the customer has working, functional equipment to support our infrastructure."
The meter bases function like household electrical sockets and are built to withstand meters being plugged in and pulled out multiple times, Verschoor said.
If a resident is concerned about their meter base, they can call Hydro to come unlock the meter and remove it for about $100, she added.
Verschoor acknowledged the technician in Regan's case did not see the crack when installing the smart meter at her home, but wouldn't speculate as to what caused the damage, saying the issue is still under investigation.
"It's possible there was a pre-existing condition that wasn't evident," Verschoor said.
But Regan argued she had no idea she was responsible for the fire, noting smart meters are locked in place on the base and she has no access to them. Furthermore, Regan said the crack could have been caused by the installer, noting that she wasn't home when he arrived, but her daughter witnessed him trying three or four times to jam the meter onto the base.
"If there's an existing crack they're not supposed to put a meter on it," she said. "I've lived in my house for 20 years and the day after they put in a smart meter, it burns down."
Regan is also increasingly frustrated by the Mission fire department, who initially told her the fire was caused by a crack on the base of the smart meter; it later revised its verdict to "electrical in nature." Her insurance company filed a freedom of information request, which indicated the fire did originate at the base of the smart meter.
The blaze destroyed Regan's home, three vehicles in her driveway, and damaged her neighbour's house.
The smart meter itself was eliminated as the cause of the fire, and BC Hydro maintains it did not see any cracks when the meter was being installed. The utility said out of the 1.5 million smart meters it has installed to date, only 250 residents have complained of faulty meter bases.
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Destructiod's Editor-in-Chief Nick Chester has announced he is leaving the site to become a publicist for Harmonix.
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Destructoid turned three yesterday, and gushed itself all over the internet in the process.There's one birthday story I like to tell about the Internet and gaming in particular — one of this art school drop-out who wanted to go to a video game event so badly that he blogged his little heart out until he […]
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Rockstar has requested that US site Destructoid remove details of GTA IV's multiplayer compenent. Following the launch of Rockstar's GTA IV website yesterday, the site posted some rumoured information about online play. The word "multiplayer" was seen for the first time on the game's site, tantalisingly ghosted out."We've been asked by Rockstar to wait until […]


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Amid growing concerns over the privacy policies of mobile phone apps, the GSMA has published a set of guidelines that aims to give users more transparency, choice and control over how apps use their personal information.
The guidelines, published on Monday, outline how consumers' privacy should be protected when they are using mobile applications and services that access, use or collect personal information. European mobile phone operators including Orange, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom have said they will implement the guidelines, but with many apps being developed independently of the big players, digital rights organizations have questioned how valuable a voluntary code of conduct really is.
Anne Bouverot, Director General, GSMA admitted that there are significant privacy concerns over what apps do with users' information. "The privacy guidelines which are being implemented now are an important first step, but to effect real change, there needs to be close collaboration between the mobile industry, Internet industry, civil society and regulators," said Bouverot.
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Facebook is just one of the companies in the firing line following revelations over the weekend that installing its Android app gives the Internet giant permission to read users' text messages. Facebook says that this permission is freely given by users and that it has not taken advantage of this right anyway.
"Other than some very limited testing, we haven't launched anything so we're not using the permission. When we do, it will be obvious to users what's happening," said the social networking site.
Path, another mobile social network, also recently attracted criticism for uploading users' address books without explicitly asking for permission. But apps from Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Foodspotting, Flickr, Yahoo and Yelp also suck information from users' phones.
Most commonly, apps access names and email addresses. Some store this information and some do not, some ask for permission and some do not. There is such confusion in the market, that Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, described it as "an unregulated Wild West."
He welcomed the move by GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, but said it fails to address the broader question of who is responsible for the unscrupulous gathering of personal data. "Far greater regulation is required before apps are installed, as it is hardly a fair choice between granting apps the access they want or not being able to use the app at all," said Pickles.
"Consumers are downloading seemingly innocuous apps without realizing their phone calls, location and text messages are all potentially being monitored," he continued. The Facebook app has been downloaded to Google's Android smartphones more than 100 million times. If Facebook is not using the information it collects, why has it gone to such lengths to collect the data, Pickles asked. "There appears to be a mentality amongst app developers that just because they have the ability to access this data then they should, whether they have the intention to manipulate it or not."
For many apps developers the answer is simple: they can make more money selling information about consumers to advertisers and market research companies than charging for the app. It is a problem that even the big mobile companies have started to take note of.
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"The same procedure as last year, Ms. Sophie?" - "The same procedure as every year, James!" - at least when summer is coming, every year Google starts its "Google Summer of Code" (GSoC). This contest is a yearly event since 2005. Wikipedia states:
The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program, first held from May to August 2005,[1] in which Google awards stipends (of 5,000 USD, as of 2013)[2] to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free and open-source software coding project during the summer. The program is open to students aged 18 or over – the closely related Google Code-In is intended for students under the age of 18.
The program invites students who meet their eligibility criteria to post applications that detail the software-coding project they wish to perform. These applications are then evaluated by the corresponding mentoring organization. Every participating organization must provide mentors for each of the project ideas received, if the organization is of the opinion that the project would benefit from them. The mentors then rank the applications and decide among themselves which proposals to accept. Google then decides how many projects each organization gets, and asks the organizations to mark at most that many projects accordingly.
Sounds nice, eh? Submit a nice project, do some cool coding and get 5000.- US-$ for having some sort of fun!
While writing Open Source software (FLOSS/Libre Software), often there's no money it. It's an honory task, just for the benefit of creating a better world. A little bit, at least. Doing some coding on FLOSS and getting paid is great, eh?
But think twice! Maybe Google is not that friendly company it always states that it is? In the first place Google is a company and wants to earn money. And it has a mantra: "Don't be evil!" But the companys main purpose is to earn money and it will do anything to achieve this.
Think of GSoC as a cheap marketing project for Google. A contest for whitewashing Googles image. They can say: "hey, look! We are supporting the FLOSS community! We are not evil!" And you can look at GSoC as a cheap recruitment program for Google. Overall it appears that Google has a bigger benefit from GSoC than the participants as a single or than FLOSS community as a whole. There is a danger that the community gets pocketed by Google instead of enforcing the FLOSS standards and being as independant as possible.
Sure, you need to pay bills, get something to eat and so on, but do you really want to help Google to whitewash its image as a monopolistic company? Or would it be worth to try out some sort of crowd funding when you have a great idea for a program you want to write?
You are so misinformed that it's a little bit hilarious.
Google contributes *A LOT* to open source software. Have you ever heard of Chrome?
And your precepts about open source software are very misplaced - many many programmers get paid to write this software. A great example would be the Linux kernel: nearly 80% of the people who write for the kernel are paid to do so.
So before you write about stuff you don't know about, why don't you Google the subject? ;)
"Google contributes *A LOT* to open source software. Have you ever heard of Chrome?"
Talk about hilariously ill-informed! Chrome isn't open source, is it? I thought Chromium was.
Anyway, it might contribute a lot, but does it take more? And why doesn't it pay proper taxes in the UK too?
But as a potential donor, how can i tell if the person behind a kickstart/indiegogo project is who they say they are and actually going to do the work. having a respected overseer of the project, who can select students, mentor them and withhold funds if goals are not met is pretty valuable.
So how about debian setup a summer of code. I am sure there are plenty of debian devs who can vouch for students that they know are already making contributions. If the debian project asked for 100k to cover 20 students at $5k each (maybe you need $150k to cover admin and taxes or whatever), i am sure it could raise it in a week.
I know debian has had issues with some developers resenting others being paid before, but it seem to be able to tolerate student stipends.
Any reason to use kickstarter? Debian already has fund raising structure (SPI), and kickstarter is for-profit company which you presumably would not want to support. Also all or nothing funding may not be appropriate, if you only raise $20k then you just sponsor 4 (or 3) students, and hope that you can raise more next year. But maybe kickstarter gives you extra promotion (i am not convinced that many people just browse kickstarter looking for projects)
What? You mean a company aren't acting in a totally selfless altruistic way?
I'm shocked, I tell you.
True, though possibly that's Google being so big that so many people are pulling it in different directions.
But seriously, last year Google paid around 1200 stipends at $5500 each = 6.6 million. Their income was over 12 billion in the year (according to wikipedia). I think they can afford to throw a bit of cash at fun projects (GSOC or http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/) without worrying too much about the results.
While I am also somewhat skeptical about Google doing GSoC out of the goodness of their hearts, after analysing it for a while... I really do think they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, or at least they're trying.
I have been involved with it for some time. They give lots of recommendations to mentoring orgs like Debian about how to interact with the programme:
Read through it. The advice they give has for a goal making students keep working with a free software organisation. The whole programme seems oriented towards getting and retaining new contributors for free software. This may benefit Google in the grand scheme of things, but benefits everyone else at least the same amount.
Also look at the students they pay for. The vast majority of them write code for which Google has no specific interest. Wesnoth? Moodle? The national library of the Czech republic? What possible use could Google get from promoting code for those orgs?
They acknowledge in their FAQ that while GSoC may guide potential students towards Google, this isn't an overt goal:
And indeed, I don't see how it would be a very effective recruiting tool in and of itself. Spending at least 5500 USD per potential candidate is a very wasteful recruiting system, even if you count the hours you pay to an actual recruiter for their work. There is the further issue that as for a recruiting system, you would have to have the alleged "recruiters", i.e. the mentoring orgs, be on the lookout for the qualities that Google wants, and of course they are wholly unaware of them. The orgs are looking for candidates that the org wants to work with, not Google. The entire evaluation of the student is done by the orgs and its mentors; Google has no say in it except to check that the student is over 18 and can sign a contract with Google.
Lastly, there are a few copycats of GSoC, such as SOCIS, for which the whole recruiting argument doesn't seem to make sense to me:
If this were a recruiting system, why would ESA copy it? They are not a software development company, they already have a recruitment programme, and moreover, they could just completely piggyback off GSoC for recruiting, just wait to see who the best students are, which are all fairly publicly announced, and then try to snatch them up before Google gets them.
So GSoC seems to me to be genuinely oriented towards helping free orgs acquire more contributors. It seems to me like Google really is trying to do the right thing here. They are already so massively rich, that they can actually afford to be good guys and not get tax breaks from it. I really do think they are attempting to do no evil.
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"We want this scheme to be known as it really is, not as the government is showing it." says Farah, as we were in route to visit the Bedouin communities in the Naqab desert (also called Negev, south modern day Israel).
Farah is a Palestinian student in Human rights and International Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. On Saturday 12 October, she participated, with a movement known as "Stop the Prawer Plan" in the organization of a trip that brought about 50 Palestinians citizens of Israel (mostly students from the Galilee area of modern day Israel) to meet with Bedouin communities in the Naqab. The objective was to increase their knowledge of the communities affected by the Prawer Plan, and strengthen the mobilization of Palestinian youth against it.
The Prawer Plan: Justified by development and humanitarian concerns
Around 160,000 Bedouins live in the Naqab, with more than half residing in unrecognized villages, to which, according to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), "the state refuses to provide with (sic) a planning structure and place under municipal jurisdiction."
As ACRI further explains, "The government uses a variety of measures to pressure Bedouins into relocating to government-planned urban centers that disregard their lifestyle and needs. Whole communities have been issued demolition orders; others are forced to continue living in unrecognized villages that are denied basic services and infrastructure, such as electricity and running water." For instance, the village of al-Araqeeb has been destroyed over 50 times since July 2010.
The Prawer Plan, elaborated under the direction of Ehud Prawer – former Deputy Head of the National Security Council and former Colonel in the Israeli Defence Forces – was publically approved by the Israeli government in September 2011. It aims at relocating the Bedouin population in order to favor the development of the Naqab area with the construction of new military facilities, industrial zones, housing and an airport around the predominantly-Jewish city of Be'er Sheva (in Arabic : Bi'r as-Sab').
"If fully implemented, the Prawer-Begin Plan will result in the destruction of 35 "unrecognized" Arab Bedouin villages, the forced displacement of up to 70,000 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel, and the dispossession of their historical lands in the Naqab," according to Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
We will stay in our homes even if it takes our lives
"The first time we heard about the plan, not all the people knew exactly what that plan was because they presented it as a good plan for the Arabs. The plan is to move out all the Arabs from villages that are not recognized. So they say: 'this way we will give them a better way of life.' But it's not so true because they are moving [them] from their land, 80 000 acres of land, and they are putting them in a very smaller sized land," explains Farah.
Israeli authorities justify the plan to forcefully displace the Bedouin communities by asserting the move will improve living conditions of those affected. A translated copy of the State of Israel's "Process of Consultation with the Public" sights an increase in development and an improvement in living-conditions as the main justifications put down by the authorities to justify the displacement.
"In the long run, moving the houses of families to an alternative location proposed after a dialogue with them, can be a blessing: by moving to a formalized settlement, even one that is located a few kilometers from their present place of residence, the families will make it possible for their children to leap in time in the midst of the 21st century."
Rejecting any claim the Bedouins could present in the name of property or indigenous rights, the report argues that the plan will allow for the development of the Bedouin communities, but fails to take into consideration their social structure and culture that have long been based on rural herding.
Palestinian youth seeking unity in mobilization
Important mobilizations, in and out of the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, were triggered after the Prawer Plan was made public in September 2011. Organized on Facebook, the platform "Stop Prawer Plan" has gathered Palestinians, anti-Zionist Jews and internationals from all over the world.
Palestinian youth within Israel have taken charge of the movement. Most of the participants are aged from 16 to 30 years old, according to Farah. "We are independent, we don't belong to any official organization", explains Farah.
The group participated in the organization of two separate "days of rage," on July 15th and August 1st this year. The two demonstrations were held after the Prawer Plan passed its first reading at the Knesset by 43 votes to 40 on 24 June of this year. Their goal was to encourage the mass mobilization of Palestinians in the occupied territories, modern day Israel and the diaspora in solidarity with the Bedouins of the Naqab. The two days of protests resulted in the arrest of respectively 34 and 12 demonstrators near Sakhnin (in the north triangle area) and in the Naqab.
If the demonstrations are seen as the main tool for resistance against the Prawer Plan, other activities, such as the trip organized on Saturday 12 October serve to raise awareness among the Palestinian population.
"After we did all these activities, [the Palestinians] are more aware (…). We wanted to do it first in the Arab community, not in the Jewish [one], because it's more important for them," says Farah.
For Farah and for the participants of the trip, the implementation of the Prawer Plan would indeed be a destructive precedent for the Palestinians: "it is a very dangerous plan. It would give [the Israeli government] the chance to do it again (…)" in other parts of the country.
H. (who has asked to exclude her name for reasons of anonymity), a kindergarten teacher working in Rahat and originally coming from the north of the country, also argues that Palestinians from the north should come to work in the south to see the conditions in which the Bedouins are forced to live. Raising awareness among the Palestinian community about what happens in other parts of the country is, for her, essential in this struggle.
Upon meeting with the Chairman of the Council for the Un-recognized villages in the Naqab, Atteieh El-Asam, participants expressed their concerns regarding the unity of the Palestinians in this struggle, whether within the Bedouin tribes themselves, between Palestinians from the north and the south, or between Palestinian political actors.
Thabet Abyrd, Adalah's Director for the Naqab area, lecturer at Beer Sheva University, and guide of the group for the day, tried his best to motivate the students to mobilize other people around them and increase their knowledge and participation on the issue.
"I bring two or three groups like that every week to the Negev (…). For the moment we have dozens of activists. We need thousands of them," Thabet said in an interview with the Palestine Monitor after the meeting.
"We will stay in our homes even if it takes our lives" - Atteieh El-Asam
The participants ended their trip with a demonstration of their support, marching with representatives of the Bedouin communities in the streets of Rahat, near Be'er Sheva. The demonstration, though limited in terms of participants, was a way for Farah to show that the Palestinian youth are still mobilized: "Any action, even four or five [people] standing, still raises awareness."
Another "Day of Rage" is scheduled for November, as the public's attention is currently focused on the municipal elections that are to be held on 22October throughout Israel.
The second reading of the Prawer Plan is scheduled this month. No matter the decision of the Knesset, both the Bedouins and Palestinian youth groups seem determined: "We have plan B and C…", says Farah, "Even if this scheme passes, we are not going to let it become real. We will go there, we will sit there, we will have some camps there."
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Baked Blueberry French Toast
12 slices white bread cubed
12 oz cream cheese, cut into 1 inch chunks
1 cup blueberries, sliced strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, or any mixture of berries desired
12 large eggs
2 cups milk
1/3 cup honey
1 orange, zest only
In a greased 9x13 baking dish, place half of the cubed bread to cover the bottom of the dish.
Top the bread with cream cheese that has been cut into 1 inch cubes.
Sprinkle half of the blueberries over the top.
Repeat the above 3 steps one more time till all bread, cream cheese and blueberries are used.
Drizzle with the 3 Tablespoons of melted butter.
In a separate bowl beat the eggs.
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Pour over the layers of bread, cream cheese and blueberries.
Cover with saran and place in the refrigerator overnight.
Next day, 1 1/2 hours before serving remove from the refrigerator and allow to temper for up to half an hour.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Cover loosely with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil and continue to bake for another 25-30 minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven, sprinkle lightly with confectioners sugar and serve with Blueberry Orange Sauce
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HOUSTON – Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. decreased by two this week to 1,769.
The Houston firm said in its weekly report Friday that 1,430 rigs were exploring for oil and 335 for gas. Four were listed as miscellaneous. A year ago there were 1,757 active rigs.
Of the major oil- and gas-producing states, Alaska gained three rigs, Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming each gained two and New Mexico and Ohio each gained one.
Louisiana and West Virginia each lost three rigs while Kansas, Pennsylvania and Texas each lost two. Arkansas, California, Oklahoma and Utah were unchanged.
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Arrested Denver Broncos executives face problems 'bigger than football'
Suspensions, fines and punishment may help simmer the public outrage over two Broncos executives arrested for DUI. But there is more to consider in the cases of Broncos executives Matt Russell and Tom Heckert.
The Broncos may have preferred to mete out punishment Tuesday, but first they consulted with the NFL. There is a process involved. There are medical evaluations that must be conducted.
The Broncos, who have said publicly that the punishment would be severe, are not providing a timetable as to when Russell, 40, and Heckert, 45 -- the top two assistants to football operations boss John Elway -- will be disciplined, but it may take up to a week.
"This is bigger than football," team spokesman Patrick Smyth said Wednesday. "It's obviously very serious. We need to make sure we handle this the right way and give careful consideration to all of the issues involved. That process takes time."
Heckert, hired in early May as the Broncos' director of pro personnel, was cited for DUI on June 11 in Parker.
According to records, he was stopped after "striking the median and almost hit the stop light," the sheriff's report said.
Heckert blew a 0.162 on a breath test upon his release nearly seven hours after his arrest, according to official documents, more than twice the legal limit.
The Broncos had their final minicamp session June 13, after which the players, coaches and executives cleared out of team headquarters for their offseason vacation. Players are scheduled to return for training camp July 24.
Heckert might receive penalties similar to the 30-day suspension and $100,000 fine the league imposed on Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand in 2010 for his driving while impaired conviction.
Russell's punishment figures to be more severe. Promoted a year ago to director of player personnel, Russell was arrested Saturday evening after he rammed his Toyota Tundra truck into a parked Breckenridge Police Department patrol vehicle at approximately 40 miles per hour, according to an arrest affidavit prepared by the Colorado State Patrol. According to the affidavit, Russell's breath alcohol content measured at 0.246 -- more than three times the legal limit. He had an open bottle of peppermint schnapps in his truck.
Russell and Heckert have expressed remorse in statements. Team president Joe Ellis said Tuesday his "expectation is the discipline will be severe."
Harvey Steinberg, the attorney who represents both Russell and Heckert, had no comment Wednesday.