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00:00:00 05/27/12
Celebrating Salad As Part of the American Meal
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Getting your family to eat more salads hasn’t always been easy, but it is an important part of a balanced diet. In this segment, Chef Jeremy Hanlon from www.myfreshchef.com helps busy mom Colby and her find creative salad ideas to add great taste, variety and health to your diet without adding difficulty to your life using Litehouse fresh, refrigerated salad dressings.
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00:00:00 05/27/12
Get That Celebrity Look for Less & How To Dress
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Celebrities are a part of American pop culture, and have been for a long time. In this segment, NYC fashion stylist to the stars, Jojo Cohen, gives us some great ideas on how to get their Fall wardrobe looks for less, without sacrificing style or quality in the process.
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00:00:00 05/27/12
America's Favorite Back To School Lunchmeat
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For over 50 years, family-owned Land O’Frost has been a part of America’s lunchboxes. With quality, wholesome, nutritious ingredients in all of their great tasting lunchmeats, consumers have made Land O’Frost an American favorite and top-selling brand. In this segment, a busy mom gives us sandwich ideas for kids as well as adults in order to save money brown-bagging it.
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00:00:00 05/27/12
Simple on-line shopping
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Synopsis: Every day products from the world’s leading brands are on-line at www.theessentials.com. Enjoy a quick and easy way to purchase items with on-line and call center support. Featuring items from state of the art shavers and electric toothbrushes to everyday needs such as dental care and even bay care items. In addition, you can purchase replacement parts and accessories, plus gift ideas to help you with your shopping.
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02:01:26 05/25/12
Myth McConnell
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In the wake of the debt-ceiling crisis he helped manufacture last summer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell boasted it was "a hostage that's worth ransoming" which "also is a new template" for the future. As it turns out, those threats were among the few true words McConnell has uttered. Because while he's promising once again to blackmail the White House over the debt ceiling, the Kentucky Republican claimed it's because "we'd like to do something about the nation's biggest problem, spending and debt, which of course is the reason for this economic malaise." Of course, as the data show, it's the very austerity policies here and in Europe which are costing jobs and hurting growth.
But Mitch McConnell's myth-making hardly ends there. On the economy, taxes, deficits, health care and so much else, virtually all of McConnell's talking points are tried - and untrue.
( Click a link to jump to the details for each below ):
* "Obama Made the Economy Worse"
* "No Evidence Whatsoever That the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Diminished Revenue"
* "Punishing Job Creators"
* "We Look a Lot Like Greece Already"
* Public Sector Layoffs Are a "Local" Problem
* 47 Million Uninsured Americans "Don't Go Without Health Care"
* The Public Option "May Cost You Your Life"
* Democrats Are "Sticking It to Seniors with Cuts to Medicare"
"Obama Made the Economy Worse"
For months, Mitch McConnell (for example, here , here and here ) regurgitated the GOP talking point that President Obama " made the economy worse ." Sadly for the trickle-down mythmakers of the Republican Party , the facts and the overwhelming consensus of economists - including John McCain's 2008 brain trust - prove otherwise. President Obama not only did not make the American economy worse; no thanks to obstructionist Republicans in Congress he saved the United States from "Great Depression 2.0" and put the nation on the path to recovery.
Start, for example, with the conclusions of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Despite Republican mythmaking that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) "created zero jobs," in November the CBO reported that the stimulus added up to 2.4 million jobs and boosted GDP by as much as 1.9 points in the previous quarter. As The Hill explained, the CBO has found that "President Obama's 2009 stimulus package continues to benefit the struggling economy": >
The agency said the measure raised gross domestic product by between 0.3 and 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2011, which ended Sept. 30. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that GDP in that quarter was only 2 percent total...
By CBO's numbers, the $800 billion stimulus added up to 0.9 million jobs in 2009, 3.3 million jobs in 2010 and 2.6 million jobs in 2011.
Mark Zandi , an adviser to John McCain in 2008, was adamant on positive role of the stimulus. Federal intervention, he and Princeton economist Alan Blinder argued in August 2010, literally saved the United States from a second Great Depression. In " How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End ," Blinder and Zandi's models confirmed the impact of the Obama recovery program and other federal interventions dating back to 2008, concluding that "laissez faire was not an option": >
We find that its effects on real GDP, jobs, and inflation are huge, and probably averted what could have been called Great Depression 2.0. For example, we estimate that, without the government's response, GDP in 2010 would be about 11.5% lower, payroll employment would be less by some 8½ million jobs, and the nation would now be experiencing deflation.
"No Evidence Whatsoever That the Bush Tax Cuts Actually Diminished Revenue"
In his version of the Republican myth that " tax cuts pay for themselves ," President Bush confidently proclaimed, "You cut taxes and the tax revenues increase." As it turned out, not so much.
After Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt with his supply-side tax cuts, George W. Bush doubled it again with his own. (Reagan's performance would have been much worse, had he not raised taxes 11 times to help make up the shocking shortfall.) As a share of American GDP, tax revenues peaked in 2000; that is, before the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concluded, the Bush tax cuts accounted for half of the deficits during his tenure, and if made permanent , over the next decade would cost the U.S. Treasury more than Iraq, Afghanistan, the recession, TARP and the stimulus - combined .
Nevertheless, as the Republican Party waged its all-out attack in 2010 to preserve the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy , the GOP's number two man in the Senate provided the talking point to help sell the $70 billion annual giveaway to America's rich. "You should never," Arizona's Jon Kyl declared, "have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans." For his part, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell rushed to defend Kyl's fuzzy math: >
"There's no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue. They increased revenue because of the vibrancy of these tax cuts in the economy. So I think what Senator Kyl was expressing was the view of virtually every Republican on that subject."
That may have been a view universally shared by virtually every Republican, but it happens to be wrong.
"Punishing Job Creators"
For years, Senator McConnell has been among the legions of Republicans wrongly arguing that even the slightest increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans is tantamount to " punishing job creators ." As his colleague John Boehner put it: >
"The top one percent of wage earners in the United States...pay forty percent of the income taxes...The people he's [President Obama] is talking about taxing are the very people that we expect to reinvest in our economy."
If so, those expectations were sadly unmet under George W. Bush. After all, the last time the top tax rate was 39.6 percent during the Clinton administration , the United States enjoyed rising incomes, 23 million new jobs and budget surpluses. Under Bush? Not so much.
On January 9, 2009, the Republican-friendly Wall Street Journal summed it up with an article titled simply, " Bush on Jobs: the Worst Track Record on Record ." (The Journal's interactive table quantifies his staggering failure relative to every post-World War II president.) The meager one million jobs created under President Bush didn't merely pale in comparison to the 23 million produced during Bill Clinton's tenure. In September 2009, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee charted Bush's job creation disaster, the worst since Hoover.
That dismal performance prompted David Leonhardt of the New York Times to ask last fall, "Why should we believe that extending the Bush tax cuts will provide a big lift to growth?" His answer was unambiguous: >
Those tax cuts passed in 2001 amid big promises about what they would do for the economy. What followed? The decade with the slowest average annual growth since World War II. Amazingly, that statement is true even if you forget about the Great Recession and simply look at 2001-7... >
Is there good evidence the tax cuts persuaded more people to join the work force (because they would be able to keep more of their income)? Not really. The labor-force participation rate fell in the years after 2001 and has never again approached its record in the year 2000. >
Is there evidence that the tax cuts led to a lot of entrepreneurship and innovation? Again, no. The rate at which start-up businesses created jobs fell during the past decade.
The data are clear: lower taxes for America's so called job-creators don't mean either faster economic growth or more jobs for Americans .
As Jared Bernstein aptly put it earlier this month: >
"Tax cuts and job growth? They're just not that into each other."
"We Look a Lot Like Greece Already"
As their last round of hostage-taking of the debt heated up last summer, Republicans including Mitch McConnell warned, "We look a lot like Greece."
hile FactCheck.org was quick to conclude that "whatever it 'looks like' through Sen. McConnell's eyes -- the fact is that the U.S. is not yet a fiscal wreck of Greek proportions," its analysis hardly does justice to the scale of the Republican myth-making. The Washington Monthly's Steve Benen summed it up quite succinctly: >
New rule: every time a confused Republican lawmakers compare the United States' fiscal conditions to that of Greece, an angel loses its wings.
Look, the very idea is just crazy. The U.S. has extremely low interest rates and foreign investor are happy to loan us money; Greece has extremely high interest rates and no one is eager to loan the country money. The U.S. has our own currency; Greece has the Euro. We have a great credit rating (for now); Greece has an awful credit rating. We have a manageable debt; Greece has a debt crisis. We're a large country with an enormous economy; Greece is a small country with a small economy. We have one of the world's most stable systems of government (at least until six months ago); Greece's government structure is a little shaky.
For his part, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been decrying the " Hellenization of economic discourse " for months. "Greece -- with a long history of fiscal irresponsibility, very high public debt, and a country without a currency -- doesn't bear much resemblance even to the other peripheral Europeans, let alone the United States."
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Here's debt levels (if you ask me the IMF projections for Greece are too optimistic). >
Plus there's the having your own currency thing, and the fact that the interest rate on US 10-year bonds is 3.11 percent, on Greek bonds 16.82 percent. >
Otherwise we're exactly the same.
Public Sector Layoffs a "Local" Problem
Last fall, Minority Leader McConnell led the GOP opposition to President Obama's proposed $400 billion American Jobs Act. The loss of hundreds of thousands of police, firefighter, teacher and other public sector jobs, he insisted, was a "local" problem.
As it turns out, the 600,000 state and local government jobs already lost since December 2008 is very much a national issue. That " anti-stimulus ," it turns out, has added a full point to America's unemployment rate .
Last month, the Economic Policy Institute noted that the private sector had gained 2.8 million jobs while federal, state and local governments shed 584,000 just since June 2009. EPI concluded that the public sector job losses constituted "an unprecedented drag on the recovery": >
"The current recovery is the only one that has seen public-sector losses over its first 31 months."
Back in March, Paul Krugman expressed the same point , but with some inconvenient historical context for the Party of Reagan. "In fact, if it weren't for this destructive fiscal austerity," Krugman explained, "Our unemployment rate would almost certainly be lower now than it was at a comparable stage of the 'Morning in America' recovery during the Reagan era." >
We're talking big numbers here. If government employment under Mr. Obama had grown at Reagan-era rates, 1.3 million more Americans would be working as schoolteachers, firefighters, police officers, etc., than are currently employed in such jobs. >
And once you take the effects of public spending on private employment into account, a rough estimate is that the unemployment rate would be 1.5 percentage points lower than it is, or below 7 percent -- significantly better than the Reagan economy at this stage.
47 Million Uninsured Americans "Don't Go Without Health Care"
McConnell the " strict obstructionist " was naturally in the forefront of the all-out Republican effort to block health care reform at any cost. As he repeatedly put it in June 2009 , "all of us want reform, but not reform that denies, delays, or rations health care." To prove his point, McConnell didn't merely trot out a Canadian patient who came to the U.S. for special treatment, but insisted to NBC's David Gregory that no American does without health care now. >
GREGORY: Do you think it's a moral issue that 47 million Americans go without health insurance? >
McCONNELL: Well, they don't go without health care. It's not the most efficient way to provide it. As we know, the doctors in the hospitals are sworn to provide health care. We all agree it is not the most efficient way to provide health care to find somebody only in the emergency room and then pass those costs on to those who are paying for insurance. So it is important, I think, to reduce the number of uninsured. The question is, what is the best way to do that?
That President George W. Bush, Tom Delay and Paul Broun among other Republicans also claimed "people have access to health care in America...after all, you just go to an emergency room" doesn't make it any more true. As the numbers show -- 50 million uninsured, another 25 million uninsured, 45,000 unnecessary deaths, one in five Americans "self-rationing" care and 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies being related to medical bills -- the crisis is far worse than the one Mitch McConnell pretends doesn't exist.
The Public Option "May Cost You Your Life"
While Mitch McConnell insisted that the lack of insurance doesn't prevent anyone from getting health care, in 2009 he suggested having coverage could prove fatal . Months before the passage of the Affordable Care Act without the so-called "public option," Minority Leader McConnell said it would be deadly.
That irresponsible fear-mongering came during an appearance on Dennis Miller's radio show in October 2009. Blasting the "opt-out" version of the public option then being considered in the Senate bill, the Senator from the state ranked 45th in health care performance insisted access to coverage could kill you : >
MCCONNELL: Well, it doesn't make any difference frankly whether you opt-in or you opt-out, it's still a government plan. You know, Medicaid, the program for the poor now, states can opt-out of that, but none of them have. I think if you have any kind of government insurance program, you're going to be stuck with it and it will lead us in the direction of the European style, you know, sort of British-style, single payer, government run system. And those systems are known for delays, denial of care and, you know, if your particular malady doesn't fit the government regulation, you don't get the medication. >
MILLER: Right. >
MCCONNELL: And it may cost you your life. I mean, we don't want to go down that path.
As a Harvard Medical School study found, each year the path of no health insurance leads 45,000 Americans to the grave.
Democrats Are "Sticking It to Seniors with Cuts to Medicare"
For two years running, Mitch McConnell has been among the 40 GOP Senator voting for Paul Ryan's House budget plan to privatize and inevitably ration Medicare now used by 46 million American seniors. In the late 1990's, McConnell joined in Newt Gingrich's effort to slash almost 15 percent from the Medicare budget so that the program would "wither on the vine." But when the Affordable Care Act called for savings from the private Medicare Advantage program used by only 15 percent of elderly beneficiaries, it was Mitch McConnell who warned seniors about the mythical danger.
In July 2009, McConnell tried to scare America's 46 million Medicare beneficiaries by declaring, "The administration plans to use Medicare cuts to fund yet another new government program." Hoping to build on the momentum of the GOP's disgusting and demonstrably false " euthanasia " talking point, McConnell cautioned: >
"Some in Congress seem to be in such a rush to pass just any reform, rather than the right reform, that they're looking everywhere for the money to pay for it -- even if it means sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare."
That salvo comes just two weeks after McConnell promised to defeat health care reform in the Senate, warning America's highest turnout voting block: >
"They are going to pay for this plan by cutting Medicare, that is cutting seniors."
Those claims, the New York Times pointed out the day after the Republicans' overwhelming triumph in the 2010 midterms elections were misleading at best and false at worst. But, sadly, they worked .
And so it goes.
As Joshua Green documented last year in the Atlantic , "Mitch McConnell is a master manipulator and strategist" whose "relentless tactics have made his party victorious." But that doesn't make him a truth-teller, except on those rare occasions when he reveals his true motivations. During the debt ceiling stand-off last summer , McConnell briefly got weak in the knees at the prospect of U.S. sovereign default not because it would be a disaster for the nation, but because it could damage his Republican Party : >
"I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy. ... If we go into default, he will say that Republicans are making the economy worse and try to convince the public -- maybe with some merit, if people stop getting their Social Security checks and military families start getting letters saying service people overseas don't get paid. It's an argument he could have a good chance of winning, and all of the sudden we have co-ownership of a bad economy," he said. "That is very bad positioning going into an election."
Especially an election which marks the culmination of Mitch McConnell's work over the past three and a half years: >
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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20:08:35 05/24/12
Senate passes Hagan's TREAT Act
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Senate passes Hagan's TREAT Act
The Senate on Thursday passed Senator Hagan's TREAT Act as part of legislation to overhaul the Food and Drug Administration. The TREAT Act brings hope to patients in North Carolina and around the country. Hagan's legislation establishes a clear and effective pathway for turning ideas into cures, and cures into treatments, for patients suffering from rare and life-threatening diseases. From: SenatorHagan Views: 37 1 ratings Time: 00:40 More in News & Politics
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16:27:06 05/24/12
Una calle de París en Montmartre
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Os quería enseñar las calles alrededor del apartamento donde estamos alojados en Montmartre, que como veis tiene montones de rincones y un ambiente muy agradable. No todo París es así, hay zonas mejores y peores, como en todos lados, pero buena parte de Montmartre sigue manteniendo el encanto. O más que mantenerlo, incluso lo realza, [...]
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08:02:46 05/24/12
euronews innovation - HIV vaccine on trial
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euronews innovation - HIV vaccine on trial
www.euronews.com A team of French scientists has started clinical trials on humans for a potential HIV/AIDS vaccine. Chief Scientific Officer at Grenoble-based PX'Therapeutics Nicholas Mouz said: "We're developping a vaccine against HIV, using a protein of the HIV virus called GP41. "Why the GP41 protein? Because it's a key protein in the mechanism of entry of the virus into the cells. "And it's a protein which allows the generation of neutralising antibodies, which is the main objective of the vaccine." Protein GP41 - remember that name, because that protein could help European researchers overcome one of the world's most pernicious diseases: HIV/AIDS. The team at PX'Therapeutics believes GP41's low level of genetic variability means it could allow them to develop a truly ground-breaking vaccine. Nicholas Mouz explained: "The idea is to look for an immune response of neutralising antibodies in the mucus. Why in mucus? Because nearly 90% of AIDS cases are due to sexual relations." These French researchers are part of a European project that includes clinical trials of their HIV vaccine. The team is following closely as 50 British volunteers take part in the first round of tests. PX'Therapeutics' pharmaceutical director is Lucile Marron Brignone. She said: "After each administration of the product we check if there are any side effects. "The other objective is to have information about the immunogenicity of the product, that's to say whether or not it generates an immune ... From: Euronews Views: 241 8 ratings Time: 03:01 More in Shows
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08:02:46 05/24/12
euronews innovation - HIV vaccine on trial
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euronews innovation - HIV vaccine on trial
www.euronews.com A team of French scientists has started clinical trials on humans for a potential HIV/AIDS vaccine. Chief Scientific Officer at Grenoble-based PX'Therapeutics Nicholas Mouz said: "We're developping a vaccine against HIV, using a protein of the HIV virus called GP41. "Why the GP41 protein? Because it's a key protein in the mechanism of entry of the virus into the cells. "And it's a protein which allows the generation of neutralising antibodies, which is the main objective of the vaccine." Protein GP41 - remember that name, because that protein could help European researchers overcome one of the world's most pernicious diseases: HIV/AIDS. The team at PX'Therapeutics believes GP41's low level of genetic variability means it could allow them to develop a truly ground-breaking vaccine. Nicholas Mouz explained: "The idea is to look for an immune response of neutralising antibodies in the mucus. Why in mucus? Because nearly 90% of AIDS cases are due to sexual relations." These French researchers are part of a European project that includes clinical trials of their HIV vaccine. The team is following closely as 50 British volunteers take part in the first round of tests. PX'Therapeutics' pharmaceutical director is Lucile Marron Brignone. She said: "After each administration of the product we check if there are any side effects. "The other objective is to have information about the immunogenicity of the product, that's to say whether or not it generates an immune ... From: Euronews Views: 225 8 ratings Time: 03:01 More in Shows
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18:58:32 05/22/12
Felicia Day Table Top Gaming Interview: New Gaming Show With Wil Wheaton
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Felicia Day Table Top Gaming Interview: New Gaming Show With Wil Wheaton
Check out Geek & Sundry's Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com Felicia Day of "Geek & Sundry" talks about the new show Table Top with Wil Wheaton. The show follows cool geeks playing a variety of hobby board games. Felicia talks about working with Wil Wheaton and the idea to highlight new games every week. A lot of these games that are literally played on top of tables can also be found online or on mobile platforms. Part of the fun of Table Top is playing games with other people face to face and learning more about the cool sub-culture of role playing games. From: ENTV Views: 4278 119 ratings Time: 02:25 More in Entertainment
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16:12:57 05/22/12
Pintores en Montmartre, París
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Recorriendo la parte alta de Montmartre, cerca de nuestro apartamento en Montmartre, con sus pintores, sus turistas, sus carteristas y ese ambiente tan Parisino y tan inexistente que nos gusta a los turistas … Para perderse pero poco y salir corriendo, que hay mucha gente y agobia un poco. Pero parte del París que todos [...]
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22:13:34 05/21/12
The Contessa's Barbecued Ribs-Food Network
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The Contessa's Barbecued Ribs-Food Network
Ina doesn't use a dry rub: instead, her marinade is a Tex-Mex/Asian fusion. This video is part of Barefoot Contessa show hosted by Ina Garten . SHOW DESCRIPTION :The Barefoot Contessa is back and this time it's basics. You've been invited to all of her fabulous parties, and now America's hostess with the mostess, Ina Garten, lifts the veil on all her tips, sharing techniques and incredible elegant and easy recipes. Ina throws open the doors of her Hampton's home for more delicious food, dazzling ideas and good fun. From: FoodNetworkTV Views: 2135 34 ratings Time: 03:24 More in Entertainment
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04:30:00 05/19/12
Lisa Harvey-Smith on the SKA mega-telescope
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Lisa Harvey-Smith of CSIRO discusses the mega-telescope known as the Square Kilometre Array. CSIRO, the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, is part of the continent-spanning next-generation radio telescope project which is due to be completed in 2019.
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23:28:42 05/17/12
Starting Clojure
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Starting Clojure
This webcast will be part tutorial, part demonstration of getting started with programming in Clojure. Specifically, a development environment will be set up from scratch based on Eclipse and Leiningen (the most common Clojure project management tool), and a new Ring web application will be constructed with flexible routes and templating. Much of the presentation %mdash especially the demonstration of key Clojure concepts such as functional composition, immutable data structures, and interactive REPL-oriented programming %mdash will apply equally to other development environments (such as IntelliJ IDEA, emacs, vim, or others) as well as to domains other than web development. About Chas Emerick: Chas Emerick is the founder of Snowtide Informatics, a small software company in Western Massachusetts where he is the technical lead for PDFTextStream, a PDF content extraction library for Java and .NET. He has been a consistent presence in the Clojure community since early 2008, has had contributions included in the core language, been involved in dozens of Clojure open source projects, and speaks regularly on Clojure, document automation technologies, and the business of software. Chas writes about Clojure, software development practices, entrepreneurship, and other passions at cemerick.com. From: OreillyMedia Views: 347 6 ratings Time: 01:15:25 More in Science & Technology
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18:58:10 05/17/12
Eli Roth Returning To Director's Chair For Horror-Thriller 'The Green Inferno'
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Eli Roth Returning To Director's Chair For Horror-Thriller 'The Green Inferno'
bit.ly - Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! Eli Roth To Direct Horror-Thriller 'The Green Inferno' and we have the details According to the Hollywood reporter, Worldview Entertainment is teaming with Eli Roth to produce and finance the filmmaker's The Green Inferno. Inferno is the first feature Roth will direct since Hostel: Part II in 2007. Roth is set to begin shooting in the fall in Peru and Chili...he is what roth had to say about the project, "I've had an amazing few years producing, writing and acting, and am very excited to get back in the director's chair. I've been working on this idea for several years, and was inspired by filming in Chili and cannot wait to get back...Worldview backs my vision and believe in me, and is giving me the support I need and the freedom to take risks and make something daring and terrifying." As we get more details, we will be sure to keep you guys posted!!! SO what do you think about Roths latest project? Let us know in the comment section below and be sure to keep it locked right her eon clevver movies, your number one source for movie news! From: ClevverMovies Views: 2042 32 ratings Time: 01:04 More in Film & Animation
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17:00:23 05/17/12
Meet Pete Peterson, Architect of Social Security and Medicare Cuts
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enlarge Click for a larger idea of Peterson's world Just after the disastrous midterms in 2010, I wrote a lengthy post about who Pete Peterson was , and why he is exactly the wrong guy to be having a "bipartisan summit" on so-called "entitlement reform." Here's a snippet from back then: >
The Peter G. Peterson foundation claims to be bipartisan, yet their former CEO is out pimping a book, a new advocacy group and a position . Peter G. Peterson served as Secretary of Commerce under Richard Nixon. He claims to be very, very, very concerned about our deficit, yet not one word is uttered in this report about Wall Street's contribution to the deficit, the collapse of our economy, or any responsibility on the part of the financial industry to help reduce the deficit they helped create .
Ryan Grim at the Huffington Post has updated that information with some more current relevant facts and data: >
According to a review of tax documents from 2007 through 2011, Peterson has personally contributed at least $458 million to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to cast Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and government spending as in a state of crisis, in desperate need of dramatic cuts. Peterson's millions have done next to nothing to change public opinion: In survey after survey, Americans reject the idea of cutting Social Security and Medicare. A recent national tour organized by AmericaSpeaks and largely funded by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation was met by audiences who rebuffed his proposals.
But Peterson has been able to drive a major shift in elite consensus about government spending, with talk of "grand bargains" that would slash entitlements, cut corporate tax rates and end personal tax breaks, such as the mortgage deduction, that benefit the middle class.
Peterson's deficit hawkery drives the narrative away from fairness right into the arms of willing Republicans. So this week, he held a "summit" of Washington elites to pearl-clutch over the deficit and debt in order to bolster their case. We can thank Bill Clinton for contributing to that narrative, too, since he was one of the featured speakers. The entire interview is at the end of this post.
Thanks to Peter Peterson, we have a country full of people who actually believe the national debt is the single biggest issue this country faces, and because he's put a "bipartisan" face on the dialogue, he gives the appearance that Democrats and Republicans alike should abandon Social Security and Medicare because they are, in his opinion, the primary drivers of the deficit. Worse yet, he's pimping those ideas to kids in order to drive a wedge between generations in the hope of succeeding at eroding these fundamental safety nets. >
Another effort to persuade America's youth about the shakiness of the entitlement programs is a joint venture between the Peterson Foundation and mtvU, the campus-based network created by MTV Networks, called Indebted . Peterson has already shelled out nearly $2 million to fund this effort to convince college students that Social Security won't be there for them, so therefore it should be slashed now -- a self-fulfilling policy prescription if ever there was one.
The educational website for Indebted , which borrows its look of revolutionary activism from contemporary stencil-based art made famous by graffiti artists Banksy and Shepard Fairey, explains that the inevitable and unavoidable debt burden to be shouldered by college kids through student loans, credits cards and a poor job market make it all the more important to cut entitlements now.
I like Seth Michaels' answer to that over at Working America : >
Peterson—a billionaire—never has to worry about dignity in retirement, about choosing between food and medicine, about having to work even when your health won’t allow it. Nor do members of Congress with their taxpayer-funded pensions, or well-paid TV hosts, lobbyists and think-tank presidents. They also feel the pressure of paying into the system much less than the majority of working people, since they only pay Social Security tax on the first $110,100 of their income .
So here’s a modest proposal for Peterson and the networks that advance his message. You can raise the retirement age to whatever you want—as long as, at age 65, every think-tanker, pundit and politician who pushes the fake crisis gets to swap places with a 65-year-old nurse, truck driver, hotel housekeeper or drill-press operator. Sound good?
Better yet, any lawmaker who thinks it's a good idea to raise the Social Security retirement age and erode Medicare should agree to relinquish their federal pension and health insurance retroactive to the day they take office. If they can't do that, then they recuse themselves from any vote concerning Medicare or Social Security. Seems like a fair deal to me.
