Speak No Bias: The Times Only Concedes ‘Insufficient Tuned-in-ness’
Poor Clark Hoyt. He has the toughest job in journalism. As public editor of the New York Times, it is his job to explain away the Gray Lady’s bias.Whenever the Times doesn’t report a bad-news-for-the-left story or mangles a hit piece on a conservative he’s there to tut-tut, but never under any circumstances will he concede the error is due to political bias.He was tapped this past weekend to explain away the non-coverage of ACORN by the Times. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 07:18:25
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U.S. Climate Action Partnership Presents Outdated Climate Plan
From the Wonk Room. Today, in the first hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee under the leadership of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) ... the political tide in Washington. They deserve credit for moving past conservative rhetoric that denies ... indicated in a recent report, “A U.S. climate bill should set a target of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 23:59:04
Confidence Picks Up in Clean Tech Funding: Report
Thank billions in government funding for helping to lift clean technology investment in the third quarter, said the Cleantech Group and Deloitte in a report Wednesday. The quarterly analysis reiterated that the recession has kicked but not killed investments in this sector, which remain down 42 percent from the third quarter of 2008. Biotech and IT combined receive less funding than clean tech, which continues its climb from the second quarter, the report noted. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-30 15:00:25
“X-Files” creator Chris Carter stays under radar screen as he lists a 4,209-square-foot house he owns in Malibu, CA for $17.495M; also, Carter has a second home in Malibu on the market for $7.9M
Chris Carter, the writer who created the popular 1990s series “The X-Files,” has placed a 4,209-square-foot house he owns in Malibu, Calif. on the market for $17,495,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Carter’s listing of the Zumirez Drive house. We give terrific credit to Carter for somehow managing to keep his ownership of this house, which hit the market back on July 28, a secret from all of us celebrity real estate gossips for nearly two months. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 19:53:07
Big Gas: U.S. Natural-Gas Imports to Rise, Prices to Fall?
The Journal’s Russell Gold reports: Energy demand is down. The global economy is sputtering. Meanwhile, U.S. natural gas production is up ... . Wood Mackenzie, the Scotland-based energy consultant, predicts in a new report that LNG imports ... reeling from overextending themselves while credit was easy. If gas is cheap and plentiful, it could [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 10:31:00
Blocking, Tackling & Running: Leveraging a Crisis Into Real Change
There's a fairly well known cartoon of two scientists working out a problem on a chalkboard covered with complex equations and down in the circle is a little circle with the key step inserted in small print - "and then a miracle occurs". Wouldn't it be nice if we could take the same short-cut to fixing the horrendous shopping list of significant [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:11
Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/1/2009+
Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps, Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure [more...]
Date: 2009-10-01 23:00:00
Public Health
On Oct. 1, Montanans can finally breathe clean, smokefree air in any enclosed public space, including bars and casinos. Full implementation of the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act represents Montana’s most significant public health advance in more than 50 years. In passing the Clean Indoor Air Act, the 2005 Montana Legislature recognized that an individual’s right to breathe smokefree air is more important than someone else’s desire to smoke. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 07:17:04
ATMs Are Signs of Progress in Iraq
The first ATMs have opened in Iraq since the invasion five years ago -- an encouraging factoid contained in a new by-the-numbers Defense Department ... with dollars to pay government employees. Some restaurants even accept credit cards these days ... government continues to manage the electricity sector with increased effectiveness," the report states. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:24:00
Some Eyeballs and Eardrums Are Worth More Than Others
While watching Top Gear on BBC America, I shop for an “I AM THE STIG” t-shirt on the BBC America website as a gift for my husband ... revenue takes a nose dive, jobs fall off as well But with the global credit crisis and continual news ... Newsletter. They also report this week that automotive magazine ad revenues dropped by more than $400 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 19:29:42
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009
Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel without addressing what Hamas is doing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 04:54:00
WHAT? You KNOW Something’s Wrong When Industry VETS Admit There are TOO many Old Men in the Industry!
This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 6:00 am and is filed under Industry News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. CommentIf there was one recurring theme at last week’s NAB Radio Show in Philadelphia, it was that radio leaders are well outside of the most attractive demos – and getting older. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 13:00:54
Why Did Bank of America Pay ACORN?
On September 29, the article “Bank of America Pulls ACORN funding” appeared on the CNN political ticker. While the short piece thankfully does list some of ACORN’s recent scandals, such as the Breitbart video investigation and the voter registration fraud, it didn’t answer the question that was surely on every reader’s mind: What exactly [more...]
Date: 2009-10-01 07:08:36
Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 8
By Joseph Romm A U.S. climate bill should set a target of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent to 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 ... the risks of dangerous impacts of global warming. That is the executive summary of a new report I have written for the Center for American Progress (Full report here PDF ). I have changed my thinking [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 00:42:02
The Early Bird: December 23, 2008
Impeachment Panel In ‘Home Stretch’ While members of the Illinois House impeachment committee aren’t expecting U.S ... ) says he expects that the panel could wrap up its work and begin preparing a report for the full ... . An ongoing sales slump, coupled with tight credit, has prompted GM to announce 11,000 U.S. layoffs so far [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 14:56:05
How to Set New Year’s Financial Resolutions You Can Keep
(source) Every year it’s the same old story. You start with the best of intentions but somehow never manage to fulfill your New Year’s ... goals. So start by finding out where you currently stand with a credit report from CreditReport.com or Equifax. If your credit score is lower than 700 due to some outstanding debt, see [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 19:55:16
How to Set New Year’s Financial Resolutions You Can Keep
(source) Every year it’s the same old story. You start with the best of intentions but somehow never manage to fulfill your New Year’s ... goals. So start by finding out where you currently stand with a credit report from CreditReport.com or Equifax. If your credit score is lower than 700 due to some outstanding debt, see [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 19:55:16
First Draft Of Stimulus Package
SUMMARY: AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT Action and Action Now! The economy is in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression. Credit is frozen, consumer purchasing power is in decline, in the last four months the country has lost 2 million jobs and we are expected to lose another 3 to 5 million in the next year [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 23:03:30
Posts about Home Supply as of January 14, 2009
Choosing Your Water Filter - invertedumbrellas.com 01/14/2009 by Andrew Caxton Most of the population in the United States agree (rightly or wrongly-that is a point of debate) … overwhelmed when it comes to choosing one. Just stop in at the home supply store that carries air … and reactions so you get the opinion of actual home users of these [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 22:37:33
Free Credit Report
There are so many things that make life even harder than it should really be. And that is having a very poor credit standing. Why? ... . It can also spot errors and remove credit report errors, a feature that is indeed very handy ... the Credit Nexus 3 in 1 Report. It claims that it gives a thorough overview of a person’s credit history [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 11:39:20
James Warren: The Week in Magazines: Obama the "Self-Entangling Giant" and How to Have Sex During Dinner at a Restaurant
No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path argues no less an initial Obama sympathizer than journalist-historian Garry Wills in the Oct. 8 New York Review of Books . [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 01:38:20
James Warren: The Week in Magazines: Obama the "Self-Entangling Giant" and How to Have Sex During Dinner at a Restaurant
No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path argues no less an initial Obama sympathizer than journalist-historian Garry Wills in the Oct. 8 New York Review of Books . [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 05:48:16
Operation Cast Lead Continues
Women of the IDF UPDATE 293. Last sentence more important than the rest ... come out, come out, wherever you are! The bombing of a UN school in Gaza killed 30, including children, who Hamas often use as human shields. Pictures of dead children in the Israel Air Force bombing of two United Nations schools in Gaza Tuesday afternoon have put Israel [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 13:17:00
Stimulus Bill Outlined By House Democrats as Senate Budget Sees a Wall of Debt
This morning, House Democratic leaders released summaries of the $275 b. of tax cuts and $550 b ... mortgage foreclosures and to clean "troubled" assets from bank balance sheets. Allen Sinai supported ... their colleagues in their concern for the long-run credit worthiness of the United States. He also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 22:04:23
Smash and grab thieves strike Pasco parents - again
LAND O???LAKES -- Thieves that target purses inside vehicles parked at day care centers appear to have returned, ... their children inside, then they smash the window, steal a purse and flee. They hand off bank and credit cards ... for information that leads to the identification of a woman who fraudulently used a credit card [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 22:01:03
DrumBeat: January 13, 2009
Analysis: Global power demand to languish in 2009 The outlook for energy commodities this year remains grim, says a new report from Merril Lynch ... management, contractor mistakes and Iraqi neglect, U.S. auditors say in a new report similar to many others examining the country's reconstruction. Released Tuesday, the report from the office [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:34
What's It Going to Take to Lock Up Drug Company Execs?
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals the shocking extent of how corrupt drug companies are ... seizures. How did U.S. annual sales of Neurontin increase from $98 million in 1995 to nearly $3 billion ... -- and how the Neurontin financial bonanza was created. In 1996, David Franklin, a young biologist [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 23:59:01
Recommended Free DIY Credit Fixing Website
My friend, Dean, has a website on how to fix your own credit. It’s pretty detailed because it’s what he did himself, for free, to fix his own credit ... . However, it can’t hurt if your score is a 750 to clean up the bad items on your credit report just to nudge it higher. It’s a good time to do this since you can get a free report online and send [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 15:44:54
Why We All Need To Keep A Watchful Eye On What Is Happening In Greece
In view of Greece’s EMU membership, the availability of external financing is not a concern, ... Consultation - IMF Staff Report The above quited paragraph from the IMF is a very good example ... membership no longer gives an automatic guarantee of oncost-free external financing, and if you look [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 15:01:19
NIC “Global Trends 2025″ Report: World to See Economic Growth At the Cost of Environment and Human Life
Read more of this story » Campaign politics dominated the headlines in 2008, making it a banner year for the armchair pundit and the politically uninitiated alike. 2008 was also a year that issues like energy use, climate change and carbon footprints came to the forefront of popular culture and political reality. And that’s where we came in [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 15:16:34
Investigators hunting clues in Denver jet accident
DENVER (AP) — Investigators returned to the charred wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet Monday in search of clues about why the plane veered off ... Mountain News, Preston Gannaway) ** DENVER POST OUT. NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT. ONLINE OK. TV ... , MANDATORY CREDIT. ONLINE OK. TV OUT ** The twin-engine Boeing 737-500 still sat in a shallow, snow [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 15:57:19
UK Conservatives Aim to Rival Silicon Valley on Cleantech
The Conservative Party in the UK is ringing in the new year with a call to boost funding for clean technology startups, ... on the government spending. Companies could also get access to free or heavily subsidized facilities ... to the report on the plan. Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labour Party has made his own [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:00:59
Who Will Speak for the Mothers? Glenn Beck!
<a>Nancy from Jacksonville, Florida, a mother of three, in response to a MommyLife.net request for input on Glenn Beck:I watch and love Glenn Beck because he’s honest. Because he doesn’t act like some pompous ass. Because he can put into words all the things I’m thinking but don’t know how to say. He can ask all the questions I am asking, but don’t know exactly how to ask. </a> [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 07:21:27
September 28th CEOcast Weekly Newsletter
Companies featured in this edition of the newsletter: ACTC, CHIP, CUR, CVM, ENZ, IMUC, IWEB, SRCO, SVUL, XSNX Markets finally snapped their winning streak last week, as weakness in housing markets and durable goods orders led to broad-based declines in all of the major indices. All told, the Dow surrendered 155 points on the week to close at 9665, down 1.6% on the week but up 10.1% on the year. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 21:05:11
Checking in on the… Ivy League
David Zeitlin is the RTC correspondent for the Ivy League. Let’s see … what to report from the Ivy League from the last two weeks. Hmm ... and Harvard Celebrate the Win Over BC (photo credit: NBC Sports)When Harvard (9-6) pulled off that shocker ... No. 1 team in the land. And two, how ’bout that Tommy Amaker, huh? While I agree that Harvard is the best [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 02:22:00
UFC 93 predictions, preview and analysis
UFC 93: “Franklin vs. Henderson” is set to take place at the at The O2 Arena in Dublin, Ireland LIVE on pay-per-view (PPV) at 3pm ET on January 17 ... and objective examination of each contest, then I’m happy to report you will be extremely ... of the involuntary Rhinoplasty at the hands (and knees) of Anderson Silva back at UFC 64 and UFC 77. But give [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 16:02:45
LEED certified buildings on the rise!
Adobe headquarters in San Jose received three platinum LEED ratings Photo credit kqedquest According to the US Green Building Council (USGBC) ... building by the numbers report (.doc warning): By 2009, 82% of corporate America is expected ... $30-$40 billion annually by 2010 With that in mind it was great to see the report that AMD’s Lone [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:16:45
LEED certified buildings on the rise!
Adobe headquarters in San Jose received three platinum LEED ratings Photo credit kqedquest According to the US Green Building Council (USGBC) ... building by the numbers report (.doc warning): By 2009, 82% of corporate America is expected ... $30-$40 billion annually by 2010 With that in mind it was great to see the report that AMD’s Lone [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:16:45
How to Trade Like a Hedge Fund
As part of our ongoing Wealth Daily educational series, which has included: ... Pit, realized gains of up to 221% in seven days. It's all about leveraging. It's the difference ... for the better part of 10 years. But here's something else you may not know... profiting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 15:27:56
Matrimonially Your's
Remember the Marriage-frenzied Aunt who asked me for a BIO-DATA from 2 posts down? ... waiting for the first night to be touched by a dickhead*. She can cook and clean but won't ... of jocks maybe? I don't need your credit-cards ok!*. Mother-in-law will be treated nicely as long [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 01:29:00
U.S. Edges Germany as World's Largest Wind Power Producer
In their year-end report, the American Wind Energy Association shows another banner year for wind ... on by the better-late-than-never extension of the renewable energy tax credit. This is the kind of "arms [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 11:39:20
U.S. Climate Action Partnership: Give Polluters Money To Continue Polluting
U.S. Climate Action Partnership: Give Polluters Money To Continue Polluting By Brad Johnson on Jan 15th, 2009 at 3:46 pm U.S ... tide in Washington. They deserve credit for moving past conservative rhetoric that denies the need ... in a recent report, “A U.S. climate bill should set a target of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:46:27
DrumBeat: December 14, 2008
Global oil supply will peak in 2020, says energy agency Global oil production will peak much earlier than expected amid a collapse in petroleum investment due to the credit crunch, one of the world's foremost experts has revealed. Fatih Birol, chief economist to the International Energy Agency, told the Guardian that conventional crude [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 14:06:53
College Money Tip #5: Get Your (Free) Credit Score
Last week, I took you through all the ways and reasons to track down your free credit report, ... t tell you how… until now. Remember how credit reports are like annoying report cards that show ... recommending Credit Karma - and some of my friends, too. So I decided to finally sign up and see how good [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:41:32
Can Developing Economies Reduce Power Emissions and Still Grow?
Though North American and Western European countries have long been the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and ... to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, and the workings of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development ... emissions baselines and credit targets post-2012 for seven large CO2 emitting developing countries [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 18:54:22
Getting Mortage - Some Tips
Getting a mortgage is never easy, but first-time buyers have it roughest of all. They don’t have cash from selling a previous residence to help them come up with the down payment or other mortgage closing costs. In fact, first-time buyers often find that it’s the down payment, that is the biggest obstacle to getting a mortgage [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:52:33
DrumBeat: December 16, 2008
Robert Bryce: OPEC Was Right About Oil Prices. Now What? Back in June, I wrote a piece for The American in which I argued that oil prices were being driven higher by the immutable law of supply and demand. Today, with prices plunging to near $40 instead of the $145 level seen in mid-July, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 13:30:26
News and Commentary
Children Heavily Represented Among 917 Dead, Say Officialsby Michael Jansen - Irish Times / Common DreamsHealth officials in Gaza said yesterday that the Palestinian death toll since Israel began its offensive against the Strip on December 27th had reached 917 and the number of wounded 4,100 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 08:42:00
DrumBeat: January 1, 2009
Blackout fear for EU as gas row escalates Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, called on Moscow and Kiev to solve the dispute as soon as possible. While Gazprom, the Russian ... , there are fears that Germany, Italy and other customers could eventually be hit if the dispute escalates [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 13:44:53
10 Ways Your Identity Can Be Stolen
Who’s in your wallet? It might be more than a some dead presidents and a few bank logos ... and how. Check your card statements and immediately report any fraud. Going Phishing - Nearly everyone has gotten an email from X bank or Y credit card claiming there’s a problem, and if you could [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:04:47
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