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		<title>{MARKETING AND ADVERTISING &gt; NEWS AND MEDIA} - 38DDs Pushed Up, YouTube Ups Ads, Asses Baldwin'd</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Wipe your ass with. Oh wait, we wrote that story already. Anyway, here's a new one. Now you can wipe your ass with Alec Baldwin.</description>
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Wipe your ass with. Oh wait, we wrote that story already. Anyway, here's a new one. Now you can wipe your ass with Alec Baldwin.<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">38DDs Pushed Up, YouTube Ups Ads, Asses Baldwin'd » Adrants {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> November 14, 2008, 6:18 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> November 15, 2008, 12:35 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;38KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/business/marketing-and-advertising/">Marketing and Advertising</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/business/marketing-and-advertising/advertising/">Advertising</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/business/marketing-and-advertising/advertising/news-and-media/"><b>News and Media</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{MARKETING AND ADVERTISING &gt; NEWS AND MEDIA} - NY Times Mistakes Jeremy Piven for Alec Baldwin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:23:43 GMT</pubDate>
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In the realm of contextual fuckery, it's not always the advertisers that screw up. </description>
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In the realm of contextual fuckery, it's not always the advertisers that screw up. <blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">NY Times Mistakes Jeremy Piven for Alec Baldwin » Adrants {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> September 24, 2008, 6:23 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> September 24, 2008, 12:26 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;39KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/business/marketing-and-advertising/">Marketing and Advertising</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/business/marketing-and-advertising/advertising/">Advertising</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/business/marketing-and-advertising/advertising/news-and-media/"><b>News and Media</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; LODGING} - FALL SPECIAL! Yachats Ocean Front Home with a Panoramic View! (Yachats, Central Oregon Coast) $160 2bd</title>
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Beyond The Sea! Yachats, OR


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$160/night





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Fall and Winter Special! Stay 2+ nights and receive an extra night FREE! * Check our website for availability: www.beyondtheseahouse.com Our lovely oceanfront home provides complete comfort for up to 6. Featuring amazing views from the living and dining areas, the kitchen and master bedroom. This home also offers a cozy brick fireplace and full-width deck to enjoy the waves crashing on the rocky shoreline. Easy rocky beach access and just a short stroll on the 804 walking trail to miles of sandy beach. Artsy shopping and delicious restaurants are nearby.Two bedrooms: a master with king bed and private bath, and a second with a queen bed. There s also a queen hide-a-bed in the living room with fireside ocean view. Amenities include a fully equipped kitchen, cable TV, DVD player and stereo, laundry. *excluding holidays 













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Fireplace
Living room
Dishwasher

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Microwave

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Posted: Fall/Winter 2008began to succumb to injuries  Crosland became more of a fixture in Smith's teams  In addition  the (2002)   Conserved enzymatic production and biological effect of O-acetyl-ADP-ribose by silent information regulator 2-like NAD+-dependent deacetylases While the scrolling planet wraps around horizontally  internally the game still marks player and enemy positions using X and Y coordinates  and simple greater-than comparisons are used to do direction checks to figure out how enemies should chase the player  The IDL corresponds to the zero on the X-axis of the game's coordinate system  When the player crosses over that point  although moving only a pixel on the screen  his position is suddenly clear across the map  and aggressive enemies will r where six specially-marked dice representing resources can be rolled up to three times  with the player being able to choose which dice to keep between rolls  After the player stops rolling  they may invest their resources to build roads  knights  settlements  and cities Eden Baldwin The Young and the Restless Actress Adam Newman Adrian Korbel Adrienne Frantz Amber Moore Amelia Heinle Andy Richards (The Young and the Restless) April Stevens (The Young and the Restless) Ashley Abbott 32996035</description>
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| Sweet Homes Rentals! | info@beyondtheseahouse.com | 800.519.0437
















Beyond The Sea! Yachats, OR


Ocean Front in Yachats! 










Furnished 2BR/2BA Vacation Home


$160/night





Bedrooms
2

Bathrooms
2 full, 

Sq, Footage
1400 

Parking
2 dedicated
DESCRIPTION





Fall and Winter Special! Stay 2+ nights and receive an extra night FREE! * Check our website for availability: www.beyondtheseahouse.com Our lovely oceanfront home provides complete comfort for up to 6. Featuring amazing views from the living and dining areas, the kitchen and master bedroom. This home also offers a cozy brick fireplace and full-width deck to enjoy the waves crashing on the rocky shoreline. Easy rocky beach access and just a short stroll on the 804 walking trail to miles of sandy beach. Artsy shopping and delicious restaurants are nearby.Two bedrooms: a master with king bed and private bath, and a second with a queen bed. There s also a queen hide-a-bed in the living room with fireside ocean view. Amenities include a fully equipped kitchen, cable TV, DVD player and stereo, laundry. *excluding holidays 













see additional photos below














RENTAL FEATURES





Fireplace
Living room
Dishwasher

Refrigerator
Stove/Oven
Microwave

Washer
Dryer
Balcony, Deck, or Patio




RENTAL RATES





$160 a night Fall and Winter Special!  Stay 2+ nights and receive an extra night FREE! (excluding holidays - sorry!)















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Renter contact info: 














Sweet Homes Rentals!


info@beyondtheseahouse.com


800.519.0437 
www.beyondtheseahouse.com







Equal Opportunity Housing





Posted: Fall/Winter 2008began to succumb to injuries  Crosland became more of a fixture in Smith's teams  In addition  the (2002)   Conserved enzymatic production and biological effect of O-acetyl-ADP-ribose by silent information regulator 2-like NAD+-dependent deacetylases While the scrolling planet wraps around horizontally  internally the game still marks player and enemy positions using X and Y coordinates  and simple greater-than comparisons are used to do direction checks to figure out how enemies should chase the player  The IDL corresponds to the zero on the X-axis of the game's coordinate system  When the player crosses over that point  although moving only a pixel on the screen  his position is suddenly clear across the map  and aggressive enemies will r where six specially-marked dice representing resources can be rolled up to three times  with the player being able to choose which dice to keep between rolls  After the player stops rolling  they may invest their resources to build roads  knights  settlements  and cities Eden Baldwin The Young and the Restless Actress Adam Newman Adrian Korbel Adrienne Frantz Amber Moore Amelia Heinle Andy Richards (The Young and the Restless) April Stevens (The Young and the Restless) Ashley Abbott 32996035<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">FALL SPECIAL! Yachats Ocean Front Home with a Panoramic View! {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> November 7, 2008, 4:22 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> November 7, 2008, 9:43 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;17KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/">Regional</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/">North America</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/">United States</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/">California</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/">Metro Areas</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/">San Francisco Bay Area</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/">Travel and Tourism</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/"><b>Lodging</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; RENTALS} - 2 bath OAK GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT (san jose south) $2150 3bd</title>
		<link>http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/2-bath-oak-grove-school-district-san-jose-south-2150-2008117494.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:51:39 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Approximately 1400 sq ft of living space which includes the following: 
-3 Bedrooms 
-2 Full bathrooms 
-Remodeled kitchen with new cabinets, countertops, flooring, fixtures, sink, and appliances 
-Family room w/fireplace 
-Living room with mountain view out bay window 
-Newly updated paint, base boards 
-Double paned windows 
-Central forced air conditioning and heating 
-Attached 2 car garage w/ automatic opener and built in shelves for storage 
-Beautiful landscaped frontyard and backyard with grass, cement patios and fruit trees 
-Refrigerator, Washer &amp; Dryer available 
-automatic sprinklers 
-Garbage and bi-monthly garden maintenance included in rent 

Home is located in quiet, quaint family neighborhood near 101/Blossim Hill off Coyote Rd. on Fontanelle Drive. Close to highway 85, shopping, Luckys, Cosentinos, WalMart, Restaurants, Flames, Outback, Aqui, Olive Garden, Fish Market, Black Angus, Light Rail, Train, Kaiser Santa Teresa, Library, Stratford School, Baldwin Elementary, Bernal Middle, Oak Grove and Santa Teresa High Schools, IBM &amp; Hitachi, Edenvale Business Park, 24 hour sport fitness, Golds Gym, Oakridge Mall, parks, creek, trails and much more! 

Rent is $2150 per month. One year lease preferred. First months rent due at signing as well as a $2000 security deposit. Small pet okay. Not section 8 approved. 
  
  


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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Sfbay.Craigslist.Org</span> - Approximately 1400 sq ft of living space which includes the following: 
-3 Bedrooms 
-2 Full bathrooms 
-Remodeled kitchen with new cabinets, countertops, flooring, fixtures, sink, and appliances 
-Family room w/fireplace 
-Living room with mountain view out bay window 
-Newly updated paint, base boards 
-Double paned windows 
-Central forced air conditioning and heating 
-Attached 2 car garage w/ automatic opener and built in shelves for storage 
-Beautiful landscaped frontyard and backyard with grass, cement patios and fruit trees 
-Refrigerator, Washer & Dryer available 
-automatic sprinklers 
-Garbage and bi-monthly garden maintenance included in rent 

Home is located in quiet, quaint family neighborhood near 101/Blossim Hill off Coyote Rd. on Fontanelle Drive. Close to highway 85, shopping, Luckys, Cosentinos, WalMart, Restaurants, Flames, Outback, Aqui, Olive Garden, Fish Market, Black Angus, Light Rail, Train, Kaiser Santa Teresa, Library, Stratford School, Baldwin Elementary, Bernal Middle, Oak Grove and Santa Teresa High Schools, IBM & Hitachi, Edenvale Business Park, 24 hour sport fitness, Golds Gym, Oakridge Mall, parks, creek, trails and much more! 

Rent is $2150 per month. One year lease preferred. First months rent due at signing as well as a $2000 security deposit. Small pet okay. Not section 8 approved. 
  
  


Fontanelle Dr at Fullerton<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">2 bath OAK GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> November 2, 2008, 5:51 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> November 2, 2008, 8:54 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;5KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/">Regional</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/">North America</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/">United States</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/">California</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/">Metro Areas</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/">San Francisco Bay Area</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/">Business and Economy</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/">Real Estate</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/"><b>Rentals</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Wash. Post reported that McCain campaign manager warned of "rampant voter fraud," but not that illegal votes are almost never cast</title>
		<link>http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/wash-post-reported-that-mccain-campaign-manager-20081091423.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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In an October 18 Washington
Post article,
staff writers Robert Barnes and Mary Pat Flaherty quoted McCain campaign
manager Rick Davis' claim that reports of investigations into the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) have suggested
"rampant voter fraud as it relates to voter registration." But in
reporting Davis'
remark, Barnes and
Flaherty did not point out that actual instances of illegal votes cast as a
result of registration fraud, e.g., using false names, are extremely rare.
Indeed, following Sen. John McCain's assertion during the October 15
presidential debate
that ACORN is "on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest
frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of
democracy," the Post's Alec MacGillis noted in a "Live
Fact Check" of the debate: "[T]here is a difference between
submitting bogus forms and actual voter fraud. It is not voter fraud until
someone shows up at the polls pretending to be [Dallas Cowboys quarterback] Tony Romo or
Mickey Mouse and tries to vote. And there is no evidence yet of a wholesale
push to send people to the polls under bogus names."

Indeed, U.S. Department of
Justice crime statistics cast doubt on the existence of widespread voter fraud.
According to a report by the
Justice Department's Criminal Division on prosecutions between October 2002 and
September 2005, the Justice Department charged 95 people with "election
fraud" and convicted 55. Among those, however, just 17 individuals were
convicted for casting fraudulent ballots; cases against three other individuals
were pending at the time of the report. Further, on April 12, 2007, The New York Times reported,
"Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter
fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any
organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and
interviews."

Additionally, a 2007 report titled "The Truth
About Voter Fraud" by New York University's Brennan
Center for Justice stated:
"[W]e are aware of no recent substantiated case in which registration
fraud has resulted in fraudulent votes being cast": 


There have been several documented
and widely publicized instances in which registration forms have been fraudulently
completed and submitted. But it is extraordinarily difficult to find reported
cases in which individuals have submitted registration forms in someone else's
name in order to impersonate them at the polls. Furthermore, most reports of
registration fraud do not actually claim that
the fraud happens so that ineligible people can vote at the polls. Indeed, we
are aware of no recent substantiated case in which registration fraud has
resulted in fraudulent votes being cast. 


From Barnes and Flaherty's October 18 article: 


In a conference call, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said the reports about
investigations of the community organizing group ACORN (the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now) suggested "rampant voter fraud as
it relates to voter registration."

During the debate, Davis said, [Sen. Barack] Obama had a chance to clarify
his associations with ACORN but chose instead to "create a fog around the
issue by not taking the opportunity to spell out his historical relations"
with the group.

Davis then went on to say that on
Election Day "and the day after," people have to be able to believe
that they had "a fair and honest election" and that the person they
chose "seems not to have a cloud hanging over this election." He
later said that "when John McCain gets elected
president," the party wanted to be sure the election process was the best
it could be.

For the
past two weeks, the RNC has steadily ratcheted up its response to the ACORN
voter registration drives, sending out seven media advisories before
Wednesday's debate questioning tactics used in ACORN registration drives.

In a
conference call this week, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said
Republicans' ACORN attacks are part of "pulling out their old
playbook."

"I
think what they're doing right now is a form of intimidation, which is to raise
a lot of questions out there, create a lot of confusion, and I think it's in
the interest of trying to intimidate voters," he said.

The
Democrats called for their own investigation.

Robert
F. Bauer, the Obama campaign's general counsel, asked Attorney General Michael
B. Mukasey to expand a special prosecutor's investigation to include a leak
about the FBI
investigating ACORN on suspicion of voter fraud.
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In an October 18 Washington
Post article,
staff writers Robert Barnes and Mary Pat Flaherty quoted McCain campaign
manager Rick Davis' claim that reports of investigations into the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) have suggested
"rampant voter fraud as it relates to voter registration." But in
reporting Davis'
remark, Barnes and
Flaherty did not point out that actual instances of illegal votes cast as a
result of registration fraud, e.g., using false names, are extremely rare.
Indeed, following Sen. John McCain's assertion during the October 15
presidential debate
that ACORN is "on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest
frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of
democracy," the Post's Alec MacGillis noted in a "Live
Fact Check" of the debate: "[T]here is a difference between
submitting bogus forms and actual voter fraud. It is not voter fraud until
someone shows up at the polls pretending to be [Dallas Cowboys quarterback] Tony Romo or
Mickey Mouse and tries to vote. And there is no evidence yet of a wholesale
push to send people to the polls under bogus names."

Indeed, U.S. Department of
Justice crime statistics cast doubt on the existence of widespread voter fraud.
According to a report by the
Justice Department's Criminal Division on prosecutions between October 2002 and
September 2005, the Justice Department charged 95 people with "election
fraud" and convicted 55. Among those, however, just 17 individuals were
convicted for casting fraudulent ballots; cases against three other individuals
were pending at the time of the report. Further, on April 12, 2007, The New York Times reported,
"Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter
fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any
organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and
interviews."

Additionally, a 2007 report titled "The Truth
About Voter Fraud" by New York University's Brennan
Center for Justice stated:
"[W]e are aware of no recent substantiated case in which registration
fraud has resulted in fraudulent votes being cast": 


There have been several documented
and widely publicized instances in which registration forms have been fraudulently
completed and submitted. But it is extraordinarily difficult to find reported
cases in which individuals have submitted registration forms in someone else's
name in order to impersonate them at the polls. Furthermore, most reports of
registration fraud do not actually claim that
the fraud happens so that ineligible people can vote at the polls. Indeed, we
are aware of no recent substantiated case in which registration fraud has
resulted in fraudulent votes being cast. 


From Barnes and Flaherty's October 18 article: 


In a conference call, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said the reports about
investigations of the community organizing group ACORN (the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now) suggested "rampant voter fraud as
it relates to voter registration."

During the debate, Davis said, [Sen. Barack] Obama had a chance to clarify
his associations with ACORN but chose instead to "create a fog around the
issue by not taking the opportunity to spell out his historical relations"
with the group.

Davis then went on to say that on
Election Day "and the day after," people have to be able to believe
that they had "a fair and honest election" and that the person they
chose "seems not to have a cloud hanging over this election." He
later said that "when John McCain gets elected
president," the party wanted to be sure the election process was the best
it could be.

For the
past two weeks, the RNC has steadily ratcheted up its response to the ACORN
voter registration drives, sending out seven media advisories before
Wednesday's debate questioning tactics used in ACORN registration drives.

In a
conference call this week, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said
Republicans' ACORN attacks are part of "pulling out their old
playbook."

"I
think what they're doing right now is a form of intimidation, which is to raise
a lot of questions out there, create a lot of confusion, and I think it's in
the interest of trying to intimidate voters," he said.

The
Democrats called for their own investigation.

Robert
F. Bauer, the Obama campaign's general counsel, asked Attorney General Michael
B. Mukasey to expand a special prosecutor's investigation to include a leak
about the FBI
investigating ACORN on suspicion of voter fraud.
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		<title>{NEWS &gt; TECHNOLOGY} - Sept. 10, 1984: DNA Leaves Its Print</title>
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		<description>1984:  English geneticist Alec Jeffreys is performing advanced but routine lab work when he has a "Eureka!" moment and discovers DNA "fingerprinting."



Jeffreys was working in his genetics lab at Leicester University, trying to trace genetic markers through families, looking for patterns of inherited disease-causing mutations in the repeated DNA segments carried by all humans. He was using the then-new blot technique developed by Edwin Southern to separate and transfer DNA fragments.



At precisely 9:05 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, as he removed an X-ray film of one of the "Southern blots" from the developing tank and studied the image, he saw what looked at first like a complicated tangle of DNA strands.



Then ... CLARITY!



Every individual (except identical twins, triplets, etc.) has a unique DNA profile. Therefore, DNA can be used to identify individuals as precisely as fingerprints.



What's more, each individual carries half his or her DNA from one parent and half from the other. So, lineage as well as identity can be traced.



All that in a flash of insight!



The lack of uniformity in the DNA strands wasn't a problem in the research he had set out to do. It was a solution in an entirely new line of DNA technology.



Jeffreys knew what he was onto. Before the day was out, he had started a list of potential uses for his discovery. The initial compilation included criminal detective work, transplant biology, and establishing biological kinship in paternity and other cases.



Evidence from Jeffreys' lab helped convict a murder-rapist -- and exculpate another suspect -- in 1986. The lab was tremendously busy, handling requests from around the world, before his technique was commercialized in 1987 and came into practice in labs around the world.



Beyond the initial uses envisioned by Jeffreys that September day, anthropologists today use DNA techniques to study millions of years of human evolution and current global variation, and biologists use it to study the genetics of nonhuman species as well.



Jeffreys was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986, and Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 1994 for services to science and technology. When he was awarded the 2005 Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, his co-recipient was Edwin Southern, inventor of the Southern blot technique in which Jeffreys saw -- and realized --- such great potential.

Source: University of Leicester
    
    
    
    
  

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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Www.Wired.Com</span> - 1984:  English geneticist Alec Jeffreys is performing advanced but routine lab work when he has a "Eureka!" moment and discovers DNA "fingerprinting."



Jeffreys was working in his genetics lab at Leicester University, trying to trace genetic markers through families, looking for patterns of inherited disease-causing mutations in the repeated DNA segments carried by all humans. He was using the then-new blot technique developed by Edwin Southern to separate and transfer DNA fragments.



At precisely 9:05 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, as he removed an X-ray film of one of the "Southern blots" from the developing tank and studied the image, he saw what looked at first like a complicated tangle of DNA strands.



Then ... CLARITY!



Every individual (except identical twins, triplets, etc.) has a unique DNA profile. Therefore, DNA can be used to identify individuals as precisely as fingerprints.



What's more, each individual carries half his or her DNA from one parent and half from the other. So, lineage as well as identity can be traced.



All that in a flash of insight!



The lack of uniformity in the DNA strands wasn't a problem in the research he had set out to do. It was a solution in an entirely new line of DNA technology.



Jeffreys knew what he was onto. Before the day was out, he had started a list of potential uses for his discovery. The initial compilation included criminal detective work, transplant biology, and establishing biological kinship in paternity and other cases.



Evidence from Jeffreys' lab helped convict a murder-rapist -- and exculpate another suspect -- in 1986. The lab was tremendously busy, handling requests from around the world, before his technique was commercialized in 1987 and came into practice in labs around the world.



Beyond the initial uses envisioned by Jeffreys that September day, anthropologists today use DNA techniques to study millions of years of human evolution and current global variation, and biologists use it to study the genetics of nonhuman species as well.



Jeffreys was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986, and Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 1994 for services to science and technology. When he was awarded the 2005 Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, his co-recipient was Edwin Southern, inventor of the Southern blot technique in which Jeffreys saw -- and realized --- such great potential.

Source: University of Leicester
    
    
    
    
  

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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Citing response about Hanoi prison, Politico characterized as "new" McCain's willingness to discuss his "biography"</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:15:06 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>In an August 18 Politico
article about Sen.
John McCain's August 17 appearance at Pastor Rick Warren's
Saddleback Church, chief political
writer Mike Allen and executive
editor Jim VandeHei noted that in response to Warren's
question about "[w]hat's the most gut-wrenching decision you've ever had
to make," McCain cited his refusal to accept an early release from a
North Vietnamese prison camp. Allen and VandeHei claimed that McCain's
answer "shows the power of his biography, and a new willingness to
publicly discuss it." In fact, McCain has repeatedly referred to his Vietnam War
record, as Media Matters for America
has noted, and has specifically cited
his refusal to accept an early release in a book, interviews, speeches, and
campaign ads since 1999.

In a June 25 blog entry, Politico senior political writer Jonathan Martin similarly wrote that
McCain's decision to decline early release "is perhaps the most
compelling element of his biography yet something which he has rarely voiced in
his years in pubilc [sic] life." And as Media
Matters for America documented, in a February 4 article, Martin
also falsely suggested that McCain did not "spotlight" his military
experience and years as a prisoner of
war in Vietnam
during his 2000 presidential campaign. By contrast, Politico senior political writer Ben Smith noted in a June 30 article that McCain has "written repeatedly of
his service": 


McCain has written repeatedly of his
service, including in a long 1973 magazine article
and in his memoir, "Faith of My Fathers." A Navy aviator from a
military family, he was shot down on his 23rd sortie over Vietnam on Oct.
26, 1967. His mission was to bomb a power plant in the North Vietnamese
capital. Already suffering from broken limbs, he was beaten by a crowd before
being taken to a POW camp. After being tortured there, he participated in some
Vietnamese propaganda efforts.

"I had learned what we all
learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine,"
he later wrote.

But he later defied his captors by
refusing to meet with anti-war delegations from abroad, he wrote, and he also
refused the most valuable special treatment he was offered: early release. 

"I did not want to go out of
order," he later wrote. He was finally released on March 14, 1973.



Below are additional examples from 1999 to 2008 of McCain discussing his refusal to
accept early release:

Faith of My Fathers

McCain discusses
his refusal to accept an early release repeatedly in his 1999 book, Faith of My Fathers (Random House). For
example, on Page 235 of
the paperback edition, McCain writes: 


I wanted to say yes. I badly wanted
to go home. I was tired and sick, and despite my bad attitude, I was often
afraid. But I couldn't keep from my own counsel the knowledge of how my
release would affect my father, and my fellow prisoners. I knew what the
Vietnamese hoped to gain from my release. 

[...]

Moreover, I knew that every prisoner
the Vietnamese tried to break, those who had arrived before me and those who
would come after me, would be taunted with the story of how an admiral's
son had gone home early, a lucky beneficiary of America's class-conscious
society. I knew that my release would add to the suffering of men who were
already straining to keep faith with their country. I was injured, but I
believed I could survive. I couldn't persuade myself to leave.



1999 to 2000

In a September 13, 1999, interview on Fox
News' Special Report with Brit Hume,
while promoting Faith of My Fathers, McCain
discussed "a particular time when the Vietnamese offered me the
opportunity for early release." From the interview (retrieved from the Nexis news database): 




HUME: Now when you were there --
When one reads, even when one captivity and the deprivation of it, but of the
repeated beatings and torture and the terrible physical condition you were in,
I mean, to any ordinary person, it seems like an impossible ordeal. To what
extent were you thinking about your family, your father, and your grandfather
and others when you were going through that?

MCCAIN: Oh, I clearly didn't want to
embarrass my family. I tried to do the best I could, which was not enough, by
the way, but there came a particular time when the Vietnamese offered me the
opportunity for early release. I knew they were doing it because of the
propaganda they would get from releasing the admiral's son, who was commander
in chief of all U.S.
forces in the Pacific, and I knew that it was a violation of our code of
conduct.

But I also not only was it my
father's approval or disapproval and my grandfather's, but also that of the --
my fellow POWs, who would have been told, "See the admiral's son gets to
go home and you stay." And I thought that would have a bad impact on their
morale. 



An October 28, 1999, Washington Post article by staff
writer Howard Kurtz noted that McCain aired
a television ad in which a narrator stated of McCain: "When found to be
the son and grandson of admirals, was offered early release; he refused."


McCain aired a February 2000 radio ad in which a narrator said of
McCain: "In Vietnam,
John McCain stood up to his communist captors and refused early release from
prison. In Washington,
he's the conservative reformer attacking big government waste."


According to a February 25, 2000, Los Angeles Times
article, McCain aired a television
ad which featured the text: "McCain refused early release from prison,
where he suffered repeated beatings and was held for 5 1/2 years." 


2008 campaign

McCain aired a December 2007
television ad in which Boston
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said: "McCain has been tested like no
other politician in America.
As a prisoner of war, he turned down an offer for early release because he
refused preferential treatment."


In a January 1 Washington
Post article, reporter
Alec MacGillis wrote that "[a]t many of his [McCain's] events, his
campaign sets up a screen and plays for the crowd a three-minute film called
'Service With Honor,' telling the story of McCain's more than five
years of captivity in a North Vietnamese prison after his Navy plane was shot
down in 1967. 'He was offered early release, and he told 'em to shove
it,' says one fellow prisoner of war, Paul Galanti."


At a June 26
campaign event in Cincinnati,
McCain said:
"When I was allowed the opportunity, given the opportunity to return home
early from prison camp. I decided against that because I knew the effect that
it would have on my fellow prisoners." 


In a June 28 speech to the
National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, a July 8 speech to the
League of United Latin American Citizens, and a July 14 speech to National
Council of La Raza Convention, McCain repeated
this statement: "When I was in prison in Vietnam, I like
other of my fellow POWs, was offered early release by my captors. Most of us
refused because we were bound to our code of conduct, which said those who had
been captured the earliest had to be released the soonest." 


In a July 8 McCain campaign television ad, an announcer
states of McCain:
"John McCain: Shot down. Bayoneted. Tortured. Offered early release, he
said, 'No.' He'd sworn an oath." 


At a July 17
campaign event in Kansas City, Missouri, McCain said:
"[T]he Vietnamese came to me and said, we'll allow you to go home early
because my father happened to be a high ranking admiral. Our code of conduct
said that only those go home early in order of capture. It was a brave young
Mexican-American by the name of Everett Alvarez who had been in prison a couple
years longer than I had. So I knew I had to refuse." Similarly, at a July
18 campaign event in Warren, Michigan,
McCain said (retrieved from Nexis): "One time when I was in prison in North Vietnam
and the North Vietnamese came and said, 'You can go home early,'
because my father was a high-ranking admiral, I chose not to do that."


From Allen and VandeHei's August 18 Politico article: 


5) McCain shows the
power of his biography, and a new willingness to publicly discuss it. 

WARREN: "What's the most
gut-wrenching decision you've ever had to make? And what was the process that
you used to make it?" 

MCCAIN: "It was long ago, and
far away, in a prison camp in North
  Vietnam. My father was a high-ranking
admiral. The Vietnamese came and said that I could leave prison early. And we
had a code of conduct. It said you only leave by order of capture. I also had a
dear and beloved friend, who was from California
... who had been shot down before me. But I wasn't in good physical shape.
In fact, I was in rather bad physical shape. So I said no. Now, in interest of
full disclosure, I'm happy I didn't know the war was going to last for another
three years or so.


"But I said no, and I'll never
forget sitting in my last answer, and the high-ranking officer offered it,
slammed the door and the interrogator said, 'Go back to your cell. It's
going to be very tough on you now.' And it was. But not only the toughest
decision I ever made, but I am most happy about that decision, than any
decision I've ever made in my life." (APPLAUSE). 

    
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - In an August 18 Politico
article about Sen.
John McCain's August 17 appearance at Pastor Rick Warren's
Saddleback Church, chief political
writer Mike Allen and executive
editor Jim VandeHei noted that in response to Warren's
question about "[w]hat's the most gut-wrenching decision you've ever had
to make," McCain cited his refusal to accept an early release from a
North Vietnamese prison camp. Allen and VandeHei claimed that McCain's
answer "shows the power of his biography, and a new willingness to
publicly discuss it." In fact, McCain has repeatedly referred to his Vietnam War
record, as Media Matters for America
has noted, and has specifically cited
his refusal to accept an early release in a book, interviews, speeches, and
campaign ads since 1999.

In a June 25 blog entry, Politico senior political writer Jonathan Martin similarly wrote that
McCain's decision to decline early release "is perhaps the most
compelling element of his biography yet something which he has rarely voiced in
his years in pubilc [sic] life." And as Media
Matters for America documented, in a February 4 article, Martin
also falsely suggested that McCain did not "spotlight" his military
experience and years as a prisoner of
war in Vietnam
during his 2000 presidential campaign. By contrast, Politico senior political writer Ben Smith noted in a June 30 article that McCain has "written repeatedly of
his service": 


McCain has written repeatedly of his
service, including in a long 1973 magazine article
and in his memoir, "Faith of My Fathers." A Navy aviator from a
military family, he was shot down on his 23rd sortie over Vietnam on Oct.
26, 1967. His mission was to bomb a power plant in the North Vietnamese
capital. Already suffering from broken limbs, he was beaten by a crowd before
being taken to a POW camp. After being tortured there, he participated in some
Vietnamese propaganda efforts.

"I had learned what we all
learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine,"
he later wrote.

But he later defied his captors by
refusing to meet with anti-war delegations from abroad, he wrote, and he also
refused the most valuable special treatment he was offered: early release. 

"I did not want to go out of
order," he later wrote. He was finally released on March 14, 1973.



Below are additional examples from 1999 to 2008 of McCain discussing his refusal to
accept early release:

Faith of My Fathers

McCain discusses
his refusal to accept an early release repeatedly in his 1999 book, Faith of My Fathers (Random House). For
example, on Page 235 of
the paperback edition, McCain writes: 


I wanted to say yes. I badly wanted
to go home. I was tired and sick, and despite my bad attitude, I was often
afraid. But I couldn't keep from my own counsel the knowledge of how my
release would affect my father, and my fellow prisoners. I knew what the
Vietnamese hoped to gain from my release. 

[...]

Moreover, I knew that every prisoner
the Vietnamese tried to break, those who had arrived before me and those who
would come after me, would be taunted with the story of how an admiral's
son had gone home early, a lucky beneficiary of America's class-conscious
society. I knew that my release would add to the suffering of men who were
already straining to keep faith with their country. I was injured, but I
believed I could survive. I couldn't persuade myself to leave.



1999 to 2000

In a September 13, 1999, interview on Fox
News' Special Report with Brit Hume,
while promoting Faith of My Fathers, McCain
discussed "a particular time when the Vietnamese offered me the
opportunity for early release." From the interview (retrieved from the Nexis news database): 




HUME: Now when you were there --
When one reads, even when one captivity and the deprivation of it, but of the
repeated beatings and torture and the terrible physical condition you were in,
I mean, to any ordinary person, it seems like an impossible ordeal. To what
extent were you thinking about your family, your father, and your grandfather
and others when you were going through that?

MCCAIN: Oh, I clearly didn't want to
embarrass my family. I tried to do the best I could, which was not enough, by
the way, but there came a particular time when the Vietnamese offered me the
opportunity for early release. I knew they were doing it because of the
propaganda they would get from releasing the admiral's son, who was commander
in chief of all U.S.
forces in the Pacific, and I knew that it was a violation of our code of
conduct.

But I also not only was it my
father's approval or disapproval and my grandfather's, but also that of the --
my fellow POWs, who would have been told, "See the admiral's son gets to
go home and you stay." And I thought that would have a bad impact on their
morale. 



An October 28, 1999, Washington Post article by staff
writer Howard Kurtz noted that McCain aired
a television ad in which a narrator stated of McCain: "When found to be
the son and grandson of admirals, was offered early release; he refused."


McCain aired a February 2000 radio ad in which a narrator said of
McCain: "In Vietnam,
John McCain stood up to his communist captors and refused early release from
prison. In Washington,
he's the conservative reformer attacking big government waste."


According to a February 25, 2000, Los Angeles Times
article, McCain aired a television
ad which featured the text: "McCain refused early release from prison,
where he suffered repeated beatings and was held for 5 1/2 years." 


2008 campaign

McCain aired a December 2007
television ad in which Boston
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said: "McCain has been tested like no
other politician in America.
As a prisoner of war, he turned down an offer for early release because he
refused preferential treatment."


In a January 1 Washington
Post article, reporter
Alec MacGillis wrote that "[a]t many of his [McCain's] events, his
campaign sets up a screen and plays for the crowd a three-minute film called
'Service With Honor,' telling the story of McCain's more than five
years of captivity in a North Vietnamese prison after his Navy plane was shot
down in 1967. 'He was offered early release, and he told 'em to shove
it,' says one fellow prisoner of war, Paul Galanti."


At a June 26
campaign event in Cincinnati,
McCain said:
"When I was allowed the opportunity, given the opportunity to return home
early from prison camp. I decided against that because I knew the effect that
it would have on my fellow prisoners." 


In a June 28 speech to the
National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, a July 8 speech to the
League of United Latin American Citizens, and a July 14 speech to National
Council of La Raza Convention, McCain repeated
this statement: "When I was in prison in Vietnam, I like
other of my fellow POWs, was offered early release by my captors. Most of us
refused because we were bound to our code of conduct, which said those who had
been captured the earliest had to be released the soonest." 


In a July 8 McCain campaign television ad, an announcer
states of McCain:
"John McCain: Shot down. Bayoneted. Tortured. Offered early release, he
said, 'No.' He'd sworn an oath." 


At a July 17
campaign event in Kansas City, Missouri, McCain said:
"[T]he Vietnamese came to me and said, we'll allow you to go home early
because my father happened to be a high ranking admiral. Our code of conduct
said that only those go home early in order of capture. It was a brave young
Mexican-American by the name of Everett Alvarez who had been in prison a couple
years longer than I had. So I knew I had to refuse." Similarly, at a July
18 campaign event in Warren, Michigan,
McCain said (retrieved from Nexis): "One time when I was in prison in North Vietnam
and the North Vietnamese came and said, 'You can go home early,'
because my father was a high-ranking admiral, I chose not to do that."


From Allen and VandeHei's August 18 Politico article: 


5) McCain shows the
power of his biography, and a new willingness to publicly discuss it. 

WARREN: "What's the most
gut-wrenching decision you've ever had to make? And what was the process that
you used to make it?" 

MCCAIN: "It was long ago, and
far away, in a prison camp in North
  Vietnam. My father was a high-ranking
admiral. The Vietnamese came and said that I could leave prison early. And we
had a code of conduct. It said you only leave by order of capture. I also had a
dear and beloved friend, who was from California
... who had been shot down before me. But I wasn't in good physical shape.
In fact, I was in rather bad physical shape. So I said no. Now, in interest of
full disclosure, I'm happy I didn't know the war was going to last for another
three years or so.


"But I said no, and I'll never
forget sitting in my last answer, and the high-ranking officer offered it,
slammed the door and the interrogator said, 'Go back to your cell. It's
going to be very tough on you now.' And it was. But not only the toughest
decision I ever made, but I am most happy about that decision, than any
decision I've ever made in my life." (APPLAUSE). 

    
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - Citing response about Hanoi prison, Politico characterized as "new" McCain&#39;s willingness to discuss his "biography" {...} During an appearance at Pastor Rick Warren&#39;s Saddleback  Church, responding to a question about "the most gut-wrenching decision you&#39;ve ever made," Sen. John McCain cited his refusal to accept an early release from a North Vietnamese prison camp. The Politico claimed that McCain&#39;s answer "shows the power of his biography, and a new willingness to publicly discuss it." In fact, McCain has repeatedly referred to his Vietnam war experiences and has specifically cited his refusal to accept an early release in a book, interviews, speeches, and campaign ads since 1999. {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 19, 2008, 12:15 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 20, 2008, 11:12 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;27KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Wash. Post cropped Obama quote in purporting to contrast Obama's and McCain's identities as Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:54:47 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>In an
August 12 Washington Post article, reporter Alec MacGillis claimed that Sen. Barack Obama is the
"embodiment of a new America" and that "Obama lacks a ready
answer" to the question of where he is from, in contrast with Sen. John
McCain, who, MacGillis wrote, "hails from an America that exalted service
to country." In support of his claim of a contrast between the
two candidates' identities as Americans, MacGillis falsely suggested that
in a July 24 speech in Berlin, Obama referred
to himself only as a "citizen of the world." In fact, in that speech,
Obama referred to himself as "a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United
States, and a fellow citizen of the world," a self-description very similar
to President Reagan's assertion in a 1982
speech before the United Nations General Assembly that "I speak today as
both a citizen of the United States and of the world."

MacGillis
also uncritically wrote that McCain "preaches a mantra of personal honor
and of the nation over the individual -- 'Country First,' as his
campaign slogan declares," ignoring reporting by the Post's own Howard Kurtz, who asserted
that McCain's "Country First" slogan was being used to call
Obama's patriotism into question and who pointed out falsehoods in
McCain's ads attacking Obama. Writing about McCain's "Troop
Funding" ad in a July 18 post on the Post's The
Trail blog, Kurtz asserted: "The tagline -- 'country first'
-- is a not-so-subtle attempt to suggest that the former Navy aviator, pictured
against American flag images, is more patriotic than Obama, who did not serve
in the military and spent part of his childhood in Indonesia." Further,
the "Troop Funding" ad contains misleading claims about Obama's
role in hearings on Afghanistan
and Obama's votes on funding the troops. Additionally, in a subsequent ad
titled simply "Troops," McCain repeated the misleading claims about
Afghanistan
hearings and troop funding and falsely suggested that Obama did not
visit wounded troops during his recent trip abroad. 

From MacGillis' August 12 Washington Post article:



McCain
hails from an America
that exalted service to country, and he is the scion of a military family who
endured five years in enemy captivity and who preaches a mantra of personal
honor and of the nation over the individual -- "Country First," as
his campaign slogan declares. His wife is conspicuously reserved at his side;
he does not communicate by e-mail and only recently learned to use the
Internet; even his roguish sense of humor carries echoes of the more
chauvinistic 1950s of his youth.


Obama's
embodiment of a newer America
begins but hardly ends with the fact that he would be the first black
president. In a country where people liked to know where you were from, Obama
lacks a ready answer -- he is part Hawaii,
part Kansas, part Chicago. In a recent speech in Berlin, he declared
himself a "citizen of the world." 

    
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - In an
August 12 Washington Post article, reporter Alec MacGillis claimed that Sen. Barack Obama is the
"embodiment of a new America" and that "Obama lacks a ready
answer" to the question of where he is from, in contrast with Sen. John
McCain, who, MacGillis wrote, "hails from an America that exalted service
to country." In support of his claim of a contrast between the
two candidates' identities as Americans, MacGillis falsely suggested that
in a July 24 speech in Berlin, Obama referred
to himself only as a "citizen of the world." In fact, in that speech,
Obama referred to himself as "a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United
States, and a fellow citizen of the world," a self-description very similar
to President Reagan's assertion in a 1982
speech before the United Nations General Assembly that "I speak today as
both a citizen of the United States and of the world."

MacGillis
also uncritically wrote that McCain "preaches a mantra of personal honor
and of the nation over the individual -- 'Country First,' as his
campaign slogan declares," ignoring reporting by the Post's own Howard Kurtz, who asserted
that McCain's "Country First" slogan was being used to call
Obama's patriotism into question and who pointed out falsehoods in
McCain's ads attacking Obama. Writing about McCain's "Troop
Funding" ad in a July 18 post on the Post's The
Trail blog, Kurtz asserted: "The tagline -- 'country first'
-- is a not-so-subtle attempt to suggest that the former Navy aviator, pictured
against American flag images, is more patriotic than Obama, who did not serve
in the military and spent part of his childhood in Indonesia." Further,
the "Troop Funding" ad contains misleading claims about Obama's
role in hearings on Afghanistan
and Obama's votes on funding the troops. Additionally, in a subsequent ad
titled simply "Troops," McCain repeated the misleading claims about
Afghanistan
hearings and troop funding and falsely suggested that Obama did not
visit wounded troops during his recent trip abroad. 

From MacGillis' August 12 Washington Post article:



McCain
hails from an America
that exalted service to country, and he is the scion of a military family who
endured five years in enemy captivity and who preaches a mantra of personal
honor and of the nation over the individual -- "Country First," as
his campaign slogan declares. His wife is conspicuously reserved at his side;
he does not communicate by e-mail and only recently learned to use the
Internet; even his roguish sense of humor carries echoes of the more
chauvinistic 1950s of his youth.


Obama's
embodiment of a newer America
begins but hardly ends with the fact that he would be the first black
president. In a country where people liked to know where you were from, Obama
lacks a ready answer -- he is part Hawaii,
part Kansas, part Chicago. In a recent speech in Berlin, he declared
himself a "citizen of the world." 

    
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - Wash. Post cropped Obama quote in purporting to contrast Obama&#39;s and McCain&#39;s identities as Americans {...} A Washington Post article falsely suggested that in a speech in Berlin, Sen. Barack Obama referred to himself only as a "citizen of the world." In fact, in that speech, Obama referred to himself as "a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world," a self-description very similar to President Reagan&#39;s assertion in a 1982 speech before the United Nations that "I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world." {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 12, 2008, 11:54 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 13, 2008, 2:29 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;18KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{AUTOS &gt; MAGAZINES AND E-ZINES} - Intel CEO Calls for 10 Million Plug-In Conversions within Four Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:06:40 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>



SAN JOSE, California -- Plug-in hybrids are a great way to ease our oil addiction and do something about global warming. But it's taken 10 years for conventional hybrids like the iconic Toyota Prius to eke out almost 3 percent of the domestic market, and nothing suggests cars with cords will take hold any faster.



For that reason, plug-in advocates say, we've got to figure out how to start converting a sizable chunk of the nation's 240 million cars into gas-electric hybrids you can plug into a wall socket. There's a handful of companies venturing down this path, but they charge as much as 12 grand to do the job and the number of cars they've converted would fit inside a Toyota cargo ship with room to spare.

That, according to Andy Grove, the former chairman and CEO of Intel, simply will not do. He's become one of the country's most high-profile plug-in evangelists, reading from a sermon published last month in The American. Now he's issued a Herculean challenge during the Plug-In 2008 conference that had many in the choir singing "Hallelujah!" 

He's called on automakers, utilities, researchers and pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley to develop a plan to convert 10 million pickup trucks, vans and SUVs to plug-in hybrids within four years. And he says they should hand it to the next president on Jan. 21.The scale of what Grove has suggested would be difficult to overstate. After all, Toyota's been cranking out the Prius for a decade and only recently saw it's one-millionth model leave a showroom. General Motors is throwing nearly everything it has at the Chevrolet Volt so it can start selling them -- in the low tens of thousands at most and at what undoubtedly will be a loss -- by the end of 2010. So how does Grove -- and those who hailed him for his chutzpah -- propose doing things any faster?

By making it a national priority along the lines of the moon shot. Or a program akin to the New Deal. Only that level of commitment -- and investment -- will overcome the challenges to so radically transforming the nation's transportation fleet, they say. Grove's suggestions include:

A federal tax credit covering half the cost of retrofitting a vehicle, funded by licensing fees on all vehicles, boats and airplanes.

Free electricity for plug-in hybrids for as long as two years.

An open source approach (which some advocates already employ for home conversions) to developing the technology, and a new federal court to handle intellectual property issues stemming from the development of such vehicles.

Greater investment by venture capitalists to spur innovation in the field.

Support from the Small Business Administration and others to help launch the industry.

Let's assume for the sake of argument the utilities, the automakers, the battery manufacturers, the growing number of plug-in conversion companies and everyone else with an interest in bringing about the inevitable electrification of the automobile can hammer out a plan in four months. And let's assume the next president not only reads it, but enacts it. Then what?

Supporters of Grove's idea suggest starting with the fleets -- taxi cabs, delivery vans, municipal vehicles. They get lousy mileage, so the return on investment through reduced operating costs will come much faster, and economies of scale will reduce costs. And since a relatively small number of models - the Ford Crown Victoria, variants of Ford's F-Series trucks, etc. -- comprise the majority of fleet vehicles, it'll minimize R&D costs. That's the approach John Dabels, CEO of conversion start-up EV Power Systems, has taken. 

"We are focusing on trucks because trucks consume more fuel and, frankly, no one else is doing this," he says. The company is beta-testing a kit that bolts right on behind the transmission with no modification to the engine, emissions system or other major components. Dabels claims the $11,000 conversion delivers a 33 percent increase in fuel economy and "we're reasonably comfortable with getting to 40."

 Once you've started that project, Grove's acolytes say, expand the campaign to conventional hybrids -- add a cord to your Prius and you'll bump your fuel economy from 60 mph to about 100 mpg -- because the job is relatively easy. (Advocates of the cars converted a Prius in the parking lot of the Los Angeles Auto Show last year. That's them in the picture.) Google's been testing a small fleet of converted plug-in Prius and Ford Escape hybrids for about a year now and seen a 50-percent increase in fuel economy over the standard versions. "We've put about 50,000 miles on them without any real problems," says Alec Proudfoot, the guy running the program. "The cars have performed beautifully."

Once the conversion of fleets and hybrids is underway, plug-in proponents say, you go after everyone else. "The low-hanging fruit is out there," says Felix Kramer, founder of the plug-in advocacy group Cal Cars. "There are millions of battered vehicles out there to be converted."

He and other conversion advocates say converted vehicles will hasten the day when automakers fill their showrooms with plug-in hybrids by providing them with a wealth of data regarding how the vehicles perform, how consumers use them and what's needed to keep them going.

But where are we going to get the batteries? How do we ensure converted vehicles meet federal safety  standards? Who's going to perform all these conversions, who's going to provide the training to do it and what guarantees will consumers have that the cars will keep running five or 10 years down the line? And perhaps the biggest question of all - what's it going to cost and how are we going to pay for it?

"Ten million conversions at a cost of $10,000 (each)? That's $100 billion," says Tom Molinski, manager of emerging technology for Manitoba Hydro. "How much does the U.S. spend on defense? How much has it spent on Iraq? At some point we have to ask, 'What's the cost of not doing this.'"

Photo by Rainforest Action Network.

  



   
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SAN JOSE, California -- Plug-in hybrids are a great way to ease our oil addiction and do something about global warming. But it's taken 10 years for conventional hybrids like the iconic Toyota Prius to eke out almost 3 percent of the domestic market, and nothing suggests cars with cords will take hold any faster.



For that reason, plug-in advocates say, we've got to figure out how to start converting a sizable chunk of the nation's 240 million cars into gas-electric hybrids you can plug into a wall socket. There's a handful of companies venturing down this path, but they charge as much as 12 grand to do the job and the number of cars they've converted would fit inside a Toyota cargo ship with room to spare.

That, according to Andy Grove, the former chairman and CEO of Intel, simply will not do. He's become one of the country's most high-profile plug-in evangelists, reading from a sermon published last month in The American. Now he's issued a Herculean challenge during the Plug-In 2008 conference that had many in the choir singing "Hallelujah!" 

He's called on automakers, utilities, researchers and pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley to develop a plan to convert 10 million pickup trucks, vans and SUVs to plug-in hybrids within four years. And he says they should hand it to the next president on Jan. 21.The scale of what Grove has suggested would be difficult to overstate. After all, Toyota's been cranking out the Prius for a decade and only recently saw it's one-millionth model leave a showroom. General Motors is throwing nearly everything it has at the Chevrolet Volt so it can start selling them -- in the low tens of thousands at most and at what undoubtedly will be a loss -- by the end of 2010. So how does Grove -- and those who hailed him for his chutzpah -- propose doing things any faster?

By making it a national priority along the lines of the moon shot. Or a program akin to the New Deal. Only that level of commitment -- and investment -- will overcome the challenges to so radically transforming the nation's transportation fleet, they say. Grove's suggestions include:

A federal tax credit covering half the cost of retrofitting a vehicle, funded by licensing fees on all vehicles, boats and airplanes.

Free electricity for plug-in hybrids for as long as two years.

An open source approach (which some advocates already employ for home conversions) to developing the technology, and a new federal court to handle intellectual property issues stemming from the development of such vehicles.

Greater investment by venture capitalists to spur innovation in the field.

Support from the Small Business Administration and others to help launch the industry.

Let's assume for the sake of argument the utilities, the automakers, the battery manufacturers, the growing number of plug-in conversion companies and everyone else with an interest in bringing about the inevitable electrification of the automobile can hammer out a plan in four months. And let's assume the next president not only reads it, but enacts it. Then what?

Supporters of Grove's idea suggest starting with the fleets -- taxi cabs, delivery vans, municipal vehicles. They get lousy mileage, so the return on investment through reduced operating costs will come much faster, and economies of scale will reduce costs. And since a relatively small number of models - the Ford Crown Victoria, variants of Ford's F-Series trucks, etc. -- comprise the majority of fleet vehicles, it'll minimize R&D costs. That's the approach John Dabels, CEO of conversion start-up EV Power Systems, has taken. 

"We are focusing on trucks because trucks consume more fuel and, frankly, no one else is doing this," he says. The company is beta-testing a kit that bolts right on behind the transmission with no modification to the engine, emissions system or other major components. Dabels claims the $11,000 conversion delivers a 33 percent increase in fuel economy and "we're reasonably comfortable with getting to 40."

 Once you've started that project, Grove's acolytes say, expand the campaign to conventional hybrids -- add a cord to your Prius and you'll bump your fuel economy from 60 mph to about 100 mpg -- because the job is relatively easy. (Advocates of the cars converted a Prius in the parking lot of the Los Angeles Auto Show last year. That's them in the picture.) Google's been testing a small fleet of converted plug-in Prius and Ford Escape hybrids for about a year now and seen a 50-percent increase in fuel economy over the standard versions. "We've put about 50,000 miles on them without any real problems," says Alec Proudfoot, the guy running the program. "The cars have performed beautifully."

Once the conversion of fleets and hybrids is underway, plug-in proponents say, you go after everyone else. "The low-hanging fruit is out there," says Felix Kramer, founder of the plug-in advocacy group Cal Cars. "There are millions of battered vehicles out there to be converted."

He and other conversion advocates say converted vehicles will hasten the day when automakers fill their showrooms with plug-in hybrids by providing them with a wealth of data regarding how the vehicles perform, how consumers use them and what's needed to keep them going.

But where are we going to get the batteries? How do we ensure converted vehicles meet federal safety  standards? Who's going to perform all these conversions, who's going to provide the training to do it and what guarantees will consumers have that the cars will keep running five or 10 years down the line? And perhaps the biggest question of all - what's it going to cost and how are we going to pay for it?

"Ten million conversions at a cost of $10,000 (each)? That's $100 billion," says Tom Molinski, manager of emerging technology for Manitoba Hydro. "How much does the U.S. spend on defense? How much has it spent on Iraq? At some point we have to ask, 'What's the cost of not doing this.'"

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