Saturday, June 30, 2012

Blake pulls a stunner, beats Bolt in 100

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) ? When the Olympics start, it will be Usain Bolt doing the chasing.

The World's Fastest Man wasn't even the fastest man in Jamaica on Friday night.

Instead, that honor was snatched away by Yohan Blake, the man they call "The Beast," who blew away Bolt out of the starting blocks and finished the 100-meter final in 9.75 seconds to upset the world-record holder by 0.11 seconds in the Jamaican Olympic trials.

How big a shocker? Time will tell. One thing for sure, however, is that the math for the London Olympics has changed dramatically.

"Nine-point-seven-five, it's awesome," Blake said. "I won the world championship, so I've got that. Now, I'm the national champion for Jamaica, so I've got that. And now, I go into the Olympics like this."

Blake is, indeed, the reigning world champion, but that victory came with an asterisk because Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion, didn't run that night in South Korea after being disqualified for a false start.

This was their first rematch, the first real race between the training partners since then. Bolt was considered the favorite, not only because of his world record ? 9.58 seconds ? but because Blake had never run faster than 9.82 in his life.

Well, now, he has.

The 9.75 seconds on a calm night in Kingston goes down as the best time in the world this year and also breaks the four-year-old National Stadium record; both previous marks were 9.76 ? both held by Bolt. Only Bolt, Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay have ever run faster.

As much as the numbers, though, it was all that daylight between Blake and Bolt at the finish line that told this story. Blake got ahead early and, for a while, looked to have more of a tussle on his hands with Powell, who finished third, than with Bolt. As he always does, Bolt rallied at the end, leaning at the line ? to make sure he held onto second.

Ahead of him, it was Blake spreading his hands out to his sides and letting out a primal scream. Bolt just pulled up. No pretending to shoot a bolt of lightning into the sky ? the now-famous "To the World" pose ? or anything else to celebrate on this night. Later, Bolt offered Blake congratulations, shaking his hand and using the other to amiably palm the head of an opponent eight inches shorter than him.

While all that ? the daylight at the finish, congratulating someone else when it was over, his first loss since the DQ at worlds ? was a downer for Bolt, the scene at the start was even worse.

Always the toughest part of the race for the 6-foot-5 defending Olympic champion, Bolt lumbered out of the blocks this time and had to churn those long legs to make up big ground simply to get in the mix.

Afterward, he said something near the start line was bothering him, beginning with the semifinals, where he also got off to a bad start.

"I had to ignore it," Bolt said. "I had trouble getting out, but I kept feeling like I could not give up."

He couldn't, if only because there are only three spots available in the 100 and Powell ? the man who held the world record before Bolt broke it for the first time in 2008 ? is a factor in every race he runs. He finished in 9.88 ? 0.02 behind Bolt and 0.06 faster than Michael Frater, who will be a part of the Jamaican 400 relay team, which also is trying to defend its Olympic title.

In the women's 100, defending Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won in a Jamaican-record 10.70 seconds ? equaling the seventh-fastest time ever ? with Veronica Campbell-Brown in second and Kerron Stewart third.

Fraser-Pryce's form hadn't been great for much of this year, but she got back into the flow with a 10.92 in New York earlier this month. She won easily over Campbell-Brown, who finished 0.12 seconds behind, at 10.82.

"I always had faith because of my training," Fraser-Pryce said. "I came out here to do my best. I did my best. It worked out. I'm going to the Olympics."

Campbell-Brown provided the surprise at the 2008 trials when she finished fourth in the final and didn't make the 100 field.

She ended up winning her second straight 200 title at the Olympics and, this time, is back in line for a double.

"I don't like to go back in the past," Campbell-Brown said about the 2008 disappointment. "I'm just thankful for what I have today. I got my spot in the 100 meters. I'm happy for that."

Left out this time was Sherone Simpson, who was part of the 100 medals sweep in Beijing. She finished fourth.

Earlier, the defending Olympic champion in the 400 hurdles, Melanie Walker, earned her return trip with a win in 54.77 seconds.

Bolt earned his spot on the Jamaican team, too, and knows there are four more weeks to go before the trip to London. That's plenty of time to get in shape and get ready to ? what? ? catch someone instead of avoid being caught. The man who coaches them both, Glen Mills, said Blake came into this race in far better shape than Bolt.

"We're right where we want to be, going into London," Mills said. "We just want to keep them healthy. That's the key."

But there are two more days of racing left. It starts Saturday morning with qualifying heats in the 200.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blake-pulls-stunner-beats-bolt-100-024928601--oly.html

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Quelle Surprise! Fed Economists Side Firmly With Bank Criminality ...

Although Dave Dayen and Abigail Field have already given a well-deserved shellacking to a remarkable piece of bank PR masquerading as ?insight? at Reuters, ?Evidence suggests anti-foreclosure laws may backfire,? it merits longer-form treatment as a crude macedoine of anti-homeowner messaging.

The way Big Lies get sold is by dint of relentless repetition. In the wake of the heinous mortgage settlement, foreclosure fatigue has set in. A lot of policy people want to move on because the topic has no upside for them. Nothing got fixed, the negotiation process took a lot of political capital (meaning, as we pointed out, it forestalls any large national initiatives in the near-to-medium term), and Good Dems don?t want to dwell on a crass Obama sellout (not that that should be a surprise by now). But the fact that this issue, which ought to be front burner given its importance both to individuals and the economy, is being relegated to background status creates the perfect setting for hammering away at bank-friendly memes. When people are less engaged, they read stories in a cursory fashion, or just glance at the headline, and don?t bother to think whether the storyline makes sense or the claims are substantiated.

Just look at the headline: ?Evidence suggests anti-foreclosure laws may backfire.? First, it says there are such things as ?anti-foreclosure laws.? In fact, the laws under discussion are more accurately called ?Foreclose legally, damnit? laws. Servicers and their foreclosure mill arms and legs have so flagrantly violated long-standing real estate laws in how they execute foreclosures that some states have decided to up the ante in terms of penalties to get the miscreants to cut it out. As Dayen points out:

No state law in this country disallows legal foreclosures. If the banks cannot substantiate ownership of the property, why is the finger pointed at the state laws that force that substantiation, and not the banks themselves? Nobody told them to lose ownership of mortgages, prompting them to falsify documents in an attempt to foreclose.

And how does a requirement to obey the law ?backfire?? The claim is that it prevents foreclosures, and that in turn is keeping the market from ?clearing.? Never mind that we found out how well Andrew Mellon?s ?liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate? prescription turned out. Notice the failure to consider alternatives besides foreclosure. The story gives one example of a borrower who got a mod in Nevada, which it suggests was due the passage of a law criminalizing improper foreclosures. But this example just hangs there, while immediately preceding it is a broker complaining how they don?t have enough properties to keep bottom fishers happy, and a defense lawyer saying he sees prospective clients trying to game the law. Each of these anecdotes has colorful quotes and align with the overall narrative.

Funny how there is nary a mention of the reasons banks have for wanting to draw out foreclosures: more servicing and late fees, deferral of recognition of losses on second liens. Nor is there any mention of how, in Las Vegas, I have been told by informed insiders that there are entire blocks in affluent areas where pretty much no one has paid their mortgage in over two years as of late 2010 with nary a foreclosure notice sent. Read that date: a lot of big ticket properties were being kept in limbo before the new law was passed. Similarly, Keith Jurow wrote in February:

In November 2011, Minyanville.com posted my 30-page New York City Housing Market Report. The report included never-seen-before charts, graphs and data that revealed what has been going on there. The banks have not been foreclosing for the past three years. This started well before the robo-signing mess. On February 7, 2012 there were a total of only 242 repossessed properties on the active MLS in Queens according to foreclosure.com. This is a borough with a population of 2.2 million.

Because of this, the number of seriously delinquent properties throughout NYC has been soaring. Based on individual charts for each borough from the NY Federal Reserve Bank which I included in my report, there were roughly 80,000 properties where the mortgage had not been paid in more than 90 days as of June 2011.

He found similar patterns in Suffolk County and Connecticut.

But what does the Reuters author Tim Reid want you to believe?

At the request of Reuters, RealtyTrac compared three states where borrower protection laws had prolonged foreclosures ? Florida, New Jersey and New York ? with three with fewer protections and where foreclosure completion times were shorter ? Arizona, California and Virginia.

In the three states with the shorter delays, the average sale price for foreclosed properties has been trending higher, suggesting a recovery that has underlying strength.

Funny, Jurow debunked that in a May piece:

We hear that California markets are showing signs of revival and that prices are rising in certain markets. Let?s see. Here are the latest figures from trulia.com.

In Los Angeles, trulia reports that the average price-per square foot for homes sold in February through April was down 9.3 percent year-over-year for 3-bedroom homes and down 8.7 percent for 2-bedroom homes.

In San Francisco, allegedly one of the hottest areas in the nation, the 3-bedroom average price-per-square-foot was down 4.7 percent year-over-year and 1-bedroom price-per-square foot was down 8.1 percent.

Price-per-square-foot statistics are the best way to compare prices because it does not matter how large the house is. Median prices are skewed by square footage as well as by the percentage of distressed properties sold.

And that recovery in Arizona? Banks are holding properties off the market:

Take a good look at this revealing chart for Phoenix from foreclosureradar.com.

Bank repossessions in Maricopa County plunged from 3,159 in April 2011 to a mere 767 a year later. Clearly, the banks are gambling that this will help to stem the decline of home prices?.

During the height of the credit crisis in early 2009, 2/3 of all homes sold in Maricopa County were repossessed properties. That percentage was down to 40 percent a year ago. Take a look at this chart from Phoenix broker Leif Swanson.

In April, only 17 percent of all homes sold in the Phoenix metro were REOs on the active MLS. Banks are hoping that this cutback of foreclosed properties for sale will steady home prices.

What about that Fed study?

A study by three Federal Reserve economists compared the foreclosure processes and outcomes for borrowers in the 20 ?judicial? foreclosure states ? where banks must seek court approval before they can foreclose ? and the 30 ?nonjudicial? ones, where such court oversight is not required?

Their conclusion? States with judicial protection over the foreclosure process or the arrears system ?indiscriminately? slowed down the foreclosure process, but with no measurable benefits.

In fact, delinquent borrowers were more likely to make good on their arrears in nonjudicial states than in states where they had more time to do so. These borrowers were also just as likely to be repossessed in a judicial state than in a nonjudicial one ? it just took longer.

Notice how the message is pounded in again and again: longer foreclosures are bad because they interfere with market operation. There are no offsetting considerations allowed, such as the damage to the integrity of land records in this country. (And how was this study conducted, anyhow? Did the authors adjust at all for state unemployment levels, or wage trends?)

By contrast, look at how Wall Street Examiner?s Lee Adler characterizes the situation:

Meanwhile, the mortgage servicing bankster mafiosi have figured out that by holding rather than dumping massive numbers of foreclosed properties, and even by slowing down the foreclosure process while allowing a few cramdowns in the form of short sales, the market has begun to rebound on its own. The bankster mafia know that placing massive numbers of properties on the market at once would crash the market and destroy the value of their portfolios, and essentially crash the financial system. So they have made a wise strategic decision not to self immolate.

Indeed, the Fed authors provide information that undermines their thesis:

Lauren Lambie-Hanson, one of the Federal Reserve economists, said delays in foreclosures had scared off potential buyers because prolonging the process raised doubts about how clean the title to a property was.

The ?scared off? is meant to suggest that the buyers who were deterred were irrational. Hogwash. Title insurance companies have backed away from guaranteeing properties sold out of foreclosure. The truth, which the Fed economists refuse to admit, is the buyers who are concerned about title problems are clear-eyed about risk, while the economists think it?s swell to stick buyers with bum properties.

And get a load of this:

Foreclosure protection laws also probably led to an increased incidence of blight, the economists found.

Read that twice. You can?t make that sort of crap up. This claim alone makes it a candidate for the Frederic Mishkin Iceland Prize for Intellectual Integrity. (If you want to see on a textual level what a shameless piece of propaganda this article is, read Abigail Field?s shredding. She goes line by line, or at least until it becomes too painful to read it that closely.) No, it isn?t the failure of the party responsible for managing a foreclosed property, the servicer, to secure and maintain the homes, that leads to blight. No, it?s the government, erm, the law.

And that is perhaps the most remarkable bit, the failure to consider that gutting the protections to the parties to a contract undermines commerce. Borrowers in judicial foreclosure states paid higher interest rates due to the greater difficulty of foreclosure. So now they are to be denied what they paid for because the banks recklessly disregarded the procedures they set up and committed to perform? What kind of incentive system is it when we reward massive institutional failure with a bank-favoring settlement and supportive messaging from central bank economists? As Dayen stated:

So when these officials argue against laws like those in Nevada, which merely criminalize a criminal practice, or California, which provides due process for people having their homes taken from them, they?re arguing in favor of what amounts to a dissolution of justice.

Source: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/06/quelle-surprise-fed-economists-side-firmly-with-bank-criminality-over-the-rule-of-law.html

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Bombings kill 14 around Iraqi capital Baghdad

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Tweets disappear from LinkedIn stream in sharing power play

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Passing your updates from one service to another has become standard among social networks: your tweets can be shared on Facebook, your status updates pushed to LinkedIn, and so on. But it may not be a free-for-all forever. Friday brought news that Twitter users will no longer be able to send their tweets to LinkedIn.

It was announced on LinkedIn's blog, and the changes will take effect immediately. The say it is due to Twitter's "evolving platform efforts," and that's more or less true: Twitter has been focusing on their own core platform lately instead of reaching out to partners.

Some of those changes involve features that will only be available on the Twitter website or app, like the new "cards," which would not translate properly to other services. Other tools and services would be similarly missed should tweets be read on LinkedIn or Facebook, so the automatic pushing of tweets to other networks is no longer as easy as it once was.

You will still be able to send something to both services, but it will have to originate on LinkedIn and be sent to Twitter, not vice versa. That means some of those extra Twitter features will be inaccessible, something power users won't like. A third-party app or service may be able to bridge the gap, so users won't miss out, but the relationship between Twitter and LinkedIn seems to be degrading and this probably won't be the last of this kind of announcement.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/tweets-disappear-linkedin-stream-sharing-power-play-854223

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Earns schedule for consumer-electronics makers

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Google?s Chrome Browser Now Works On The iPhone And iPad

Screen shot 2012-06-28 at 1.48.40 PMToday at Google I/O, the company announced that it is launching a new version of its Chrome browser, which will be available for iPhone and iPad users. The new app should be on the Apple App Store today, allowing users to sync all their tabs, bookmarks, and credentials across all their devices. Importantly, it's not just the iPhone and iPad through which users can sync all their information -- the latest version of Google Chrome will let users access all the tabs that are open across multiple devices. Google VP of Chrome, Brian Rakowski demoed the capability today, showing how he could use open tabs on Chrome browser from his Macbook, Chromebook, Android mobile phone and Android tablet. Then showed the same capability on the iPhone.

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Analysis: Health care ruling won't stop arguments (The Arizona Republic)

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Jennifer Lawrence And Bradley Cooper Find 'Silver Linings' In New Trailer

Jennifer Lawrence is at the top of her game right now. She's the leading lady in second highest grossing movie of the year, is still hot off her 2011 Oscar nomination and is proving with every new film that she can't be pigeon-holed into one specific type of role. A trailer for her upcoming project, [...]

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Buyer beware: Things that can go wrong with a real estate ...

KRISTIN BROWN-ORR ? Any real estate sale is fraught with intricacies too numerous to count. Every sale is different, with different buyers, different sellers, and different intermediaries. It?s no wonder people find the process so daunting, so full of legalities, documentation, and fine print.

As a home buyer, the more you know about what can go wrong with your real estate purchase, the more prepared you will be to protect your interests. Here are just a few of the problems you could encounter during a home purchase.

Failed home inspection.
If the home you are buying does not pass muster in an inspection, due to health or safety concerns, the seller should fix these issues or extend you a credit or discount on the sale price so that you can have them fixed. If he or she refuses to do so, you have the right to cancel the sale and search for a new home.

Poorly motivated seller. If the seller?s heart is not in the sale, he or she might be prone to missing or canceling appraisals and inspections ? all of which could threaten your purchase.

Seller hasn?t found a new home to move into. If a seller has trouble finding a replacement property and refuses to consider temporary arrangements, you might find yourself in a tricky timing situation ? particularly if you have a closing date on the home you are leaving. Are you prepared to wait it out in temporary housing while you wait for the seller to move out?

Title Issues.
If your seller owes money on the property you are buying, either for repayment of a debt, failure to pay taxes, or because money is owed for work completed on the property, creditors with an interest in that property may take out a lien, rendering the seller unable to sell until those debts are repaid. Meanwhile, the purchase is on hold.

Seller fails to make agreed upon repairs.
If the seller has contractually promised to deliver the property to you in a certain condition and fails to deliver, you have the right to terminate the contract, if you are not prepared to accept the property ?as is.? An alternative to this situation is to talk to your attorney or real estate agent about either requesting a sum of money to complete the fixes yourself, or requesting a hold back ? cash set aside until the work is complete.

Most traditional real estate transactions proceed smoothly, but being aware of the potential pitfalls will give you a leg up on any problems that could arise. That means doing your homework to be aware of your risks.

During the transaction, stay informed to be on the lookout for red flags and keep a watchful eye on the process and you?ll be prepared to address problems immediately and enjoy the home of your dreams.

Tomorrow, also see Brown-Orr?s: ?Seller take care: Things that can go wrong with a real estate transaction?

Source: Kristin Brown-Orr has been a real estate agent with for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Lexington, MA for nearly a decade, working with buyers, sellers and developers. Brown-Orr is also a contributing writer with Lexington Patch?s House & Home section.

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Analysis: Morgan Stanley faces Facebook fallout, limits damage

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New IT security guide for small businesses is launched | Moynihan ...

The Information Commissioner?s Office (ICO) has launched a new IT security guide for small and medium-sized businesses.

The guide contains a series of clear and practical steps aimed at helping firms to make their IT systems secure.

Topics covered by the guide include physical security, anti-virus software and employee awareness.

Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said, ?Smaller enterprises often tell us that they would benefit from simple and clear advice specifically designed for them?.

?This guide aims to support these companies by providing a starting point and recommendations that cost little to adopt, but can significantly reduce the risks of a serious data loss and the reputational and financial damage that can result.?

Businesses that encounter a serious data breach could face penalties of up to ?500,000.

The Federation of Small Businesses welcomed the guide, commenting, ?Good IT and data security should be part and parcel of good business practice and businesses should think about the simple steps that they can put in place to achieve this?.

The guide is available via the ICO website:?www.ico.gov.uk.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

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Christian group backs away from ex-gay therapy

FILE - In this Thursday, May 11, 2006 file photo, Alan Chambers, left, president of Exodus International, sits with his wife, Leslie, in their home in Winter Park, Fla. The president of the country's best-known Christian ministry dedicated to helping people repress same-sex attraction through prayer is trying to distance the group from the idea that gay people's sexual orientation can be permanently changed or "cured." Chambers said Tuesday, June 26, 2012 that their upcoming national conference would highlight his efforts to dissociate the group from the controversial practice usually called ex-gay, reparative or conversion therapy. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

FILE - In this Thursday, May 11, 2006 file photo, Alan Chambers, left, president of Exodus International, sits with his wife, Leslie, in their home in Winter Park, Fla. The president of the country's best-known Christian ministry dedicated to helping people repress same-sex attraction through prayer is trying to distance the group from the idea that gay people's sexual orientation can be permanently changed or "cured." Chambers said Tuesday, June 26, 2012 that their upcoming national conference would highlight his efforts to dissociate the group from the controversial practice usually called ex-gay, reparative or conversion therapy. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

(AP) ? The president of the country's best-known Christian ministry dedicated to helping people repress same-sex attraction through prayer is trying to distance the group from the idea that gay people's sexual orientation can be permanently changed or "cured."

That's a significant shift for Exodus International, the 36-year-old Orlando-based group that boasts 260 member ministries around the U.S. and world. For decades, it has offered to help conflicted Christians rid themselves of unwanted homosexual inclinations through counseling and prayer, infuriating gay rights activists in the process.

This week, 600 Exodus ministers and followers are gathering for the group's annual conference, held this year in a Minneapolis suburb. The group's president, Alan Chambers, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the conference would highlight his efforts to dissociate the group from the controversial practice usually called ex-gay, reparative or conversion therapy.

"I do not believe that cure is a word that is applicable to really any struggle, homosexuality included," said Chambers, who is married to a woman and has children, but speaks openly about his own sexual attraction to men. "For someone to put out a shingle and say, 'I can cure homosexuality' ? that to me is as bizarre as someone saying they can cure any other common temptation or struggle that anyone faces on Planet Earth."

Chambers has cleared books endorsing ex-gay therapy from the Exodus online bookstore in recent months. He said he's also worked to stop member ministries from espousing it.

Chambers said the ministry's emphasis should be simply helping Christians who want to reconcile their own particular religious beliefs with sexual feelings they consider an affront to scripture. For some that might mean celibacy; for others, like Chambers, it meant finding an understanding opposite-sex partner.

"I consider myself fortunate to be in the best marriage I know," Chambers said. "It's an amazing thing, yet I do have same-sex attractions. Those things don't overwhelm me or my marriage; they are something that informs me like any other struggle I might bring to the table."

Exodus has seen its influence wane in recent decades, as mainstream associations representing psychiatrists and psychologists have relegated reparative therapy to crackpot status. But Exodus and groups like it continue to influence many evangelicals and fundamentalists, and gay rights activists said the damage they inflict on individuals can be deep and lasting.

"We appreciate any step toward open, transparent honesty that will do less harm to people," said Wayne Besen, a Vermont-based activist who has worked to discredit ex-gay therapy. "But the underlying belief is still that homosexuals are sexually broken, that something underlying is broken and needs to be fixed. That's incredibly harmful, it scars people."

The cultural battle over ex-gay therapy drew national attention last year, after an activist with Besen's group, "Truth Wins Out," went undercover in a counseling clinic co-owned by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, at the time a GOP presidential contender, and run by her husband, Marcus. The activist, John Becker, released footage seeming to show a counselor at the Minnesota clinic offering to help him overcome homosexual urges.

In earlier interviews, Marcus Bachmann had denied his practice seeks to "cure" gay people but said it was open to patients who wanted to talk about their homosexuality.

Besen said Truth Wins Out is unveiling a campaign this week to encourage lawmakers in all 50 states to ban reparative therapy from being performed on minors. The California state Senate passed a bill to do that last month, and Besen said similar legislation is likely to be introduced soon in at least three other states.

While Exodus has officially shied away from reparative therapy, the practice still has adherents.

"To hold out the idea that one's homosexual attractions can diminish, that the possibility of heterosexual attractions coming forth over a period of time ? those things are possible," said David Pruden, chief operating officer with the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, a professional association made up of about 2,000 therapists and others who still espouse such treatments.

Chambers acknowledged some Exodus affiliates might still offer reparative therapy. But he said "99.9 percent" of people he's encountered in two decades with Exodus were not able to completely rid themselves of same-sex attraction. He believes the organization must be honest about that when people come looking for help.

"I guess I'd like to see some sort of apology from leaders of Exodus for all the people they misled," said Jeffry Ford, a St. Paul psychologist who worked for an Exodus-linked group in the 1970s and '80s before splitting with his wife, coming out and strongly disavowing his past work.

Ford and other gay activists have planned a Thursday news conference to criticize Exodus for holding its conference in Minnesota just months before a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.

"These kinds of conferences help put fears in the world about what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender," said Monica Meyer, executive director of OutFront Minnesota, the state's chief gay rights group. "For people who are questioning or LGBT, it sends them a message that there's something wrong with them."

Chambers said the timing is coincidental and Exodus isn't looking to influence Minnesota voters. While the group holds that any sexual activity outside a heterosexual marriage is sinful, he said he wants Exodus to disengage from politics.

"For those that don't hold to the same Biblical ethic that I do, I think there's room for further discussion without a culture war that has really served no one," Chambers said. "I think it's time for us in the church to move on from that fight."

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Patrick Condon can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pcondonap

Associated Press

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Ex-employee offers insider take on Facebook's culture

By Cadie Thompson, CNBC.com

From Facebook's company-obsessed culture to its rowdy parties, a former employee is airing some of the social network's dirty laundry in a book released Tuesday.

Katherine Losse, a former employee who worked in customer service and eventually became the ghostwriter for company CEO Mark Zuckerberg, wrote "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network."

Losse, who worked at Facebook from 2005 to 2010, says in her book that Facebook employees were expected to be dedicated to the "the cause," a Facebook-centric way of life.

Employees would compete with their social profiles by rewarding the most-liked photos and posts with money, Losse says in her new book, according to a press release. Employees were also encouraged to live within a mile of the office and rewarded for doing so.

Losse also says employees would use a secret app built on the Facebook platform called Judgebook to quickly display images of Facebook users for company employees to score.

The Facebook culture seems to put an emphasis on attractiveness according to Losse, who says in her book during VIP parties in Las Vegas, Facebook employees would have bouncers bring women to their table, then turn them away for not being attractive enough.

Privacy is another subject Losse touches on in her book, claiming employees had access to every profile in the early days of Facebook.

Facebook did not immediately respond for comment.

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Lafayette hires Brown as hoops coach

By John Harvey
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Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:08 AM EDT

Originally Published: Saturday, June 23, 2012

JAMES CITY -- Patrick Brown has spent nearly a decade studying basketball in the Bay Rivers District as a player and assistant coach.

The 29-year-old Grafton High grad now gets a chance to build his own program at Lafayette High. He was named the program?s next coach Wednesday afternoon following approval by the WJC School Board late Tuesday night.

?It?s truly a dream come true,? said Brown in a phone interview Wednesday afternoon. ?It?s been a goal of mine since I graduated high school.?

Brown played one year at Grafton High under coach David Keeter after moving from New Mexico. He graduated from Longwood University in 2005 with a major in kinesiology. After college he returned to the Peninsula to begin his coaching career.

After a brief stint as assistant coach at Menchville, he found a home in the Bay Rivers. He spent two seasons as an assistant to Lee Underwood at Jamestown High. In 2007 he took the junior varsity job at Warhill and spent four years as coach Justin Hayes top assistants. Last year, he served as a health and physical education teacher at Berkeley Middle School. He was also served as a private basketball trainer with Breakaway Basketball.

?I always knew. I wanted to coach and build a program of my own,? Brown explained. ?I feel extremely blessed to have the opportunity, because I know the responsibility that comes with it. I?m ready to help guys become better basketball players.?

Brown takes over for Tony Traver, who stepped down earlier this year for personal reasons. Traver guided the Rams to a 34-35 record during his three-year tenure, including a trip to the Region I Division 3 semifinals.

Brown is excited. ?Most people look at me and think I?m mild-mannered,? he said. ?I love basketball and it does get me going. I spent a total of six years coaching in the Bay Rivers, coaching against different systems. It?s going to be a big challenge. Some of the guys that are coaching in this league, like [Tabb?s] Doug Baggett and Lee [Underwood] and Justin [Hayes] have some such an amazing job. I know that works.?

With the VHSL new regulation of allowing coaches to work with their players year-round, Brown is ready to get to work. Commitment, attention to detail and hard work are qualities he demands from himself and his players.

?I expect all the little things to be done correctly,? he said. ?I try to be very clear with the message that I?m sending. They will know where I stand. Off the court, they?re kids and so I try to show that I care about what?s going on and try to make sure that they?re doing the right things off the court. ?



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Carol Muske-Dukes: Obama + Shelley Get it Right: Poets ARE the Unacknowledged Legislators of the World! (An OMNIBUS Book Review)

The varieties of knowledge we gain from poetry usually go unremarked, yet from poems we learn about human behavior, politics, family life, education, the occult, cosmology, the physical sciences, technology, gardening, animals, geography, each of the arts and all religions -- not to mention love and death. This information is often sidelined because Poetry (when it works) miraculously reveals to us how knowledge transforms into insight. We glimpse the imagination at work and we marvel. All categories of experience are subsumed by Poetry and poetry's own experience elevates consciousness, opening into empathy. That's the ideal reading, of course -- poems imitate the alchemical: limbic fires yielding pure gold -- or dross -- depending on the poet's skill, the reader's attention.

Few grasp the extent of Poetry's relevance to everything in our lives -- including politics. Few grasp how important it is to read non-stop and omnivorously, to see that the time-traveling conversation of literature means that Sappho or the late T'ang Dynasty poets or Derek Walcott have as much to say to us as the internet, TV, newspapers, social media. In fact, Poetry has a whole lot more to say than the news and generally lots more than Facebook; it is "news that stays news" and it ups the ante of human perception. It's taken me a long long time to understand what Percy Bysshe Shelley meant when he said, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" -- but at last I think I do.

A recent Vanity Fair article, addressing a new biography of President Obama, focuses on Obama's youthful love affairs -- a passage is quoted from a letter by young Barack to a girlfriend/confidante. The letter is written in that familiar self-amazed graduate student prose style ("to catch a glimpse of what I speak"), pompous yet searching -- he philosophizes on politics in the poetry and poetics of T.S. Eliot:

Read his essay on "Tradition," as well as "Four Quartets," when he's less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak. Remember how I said there's a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism - Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it's due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini)... A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times.

To me this passage, despite its seminar-break style, is illuminating, not just as a snapshot of a young, remarkably agile mind trying to posit a self within a culture -- but (in my opinion) a world-view that radiates into the future, our present -- into Obama's brand of centrist presidential politics. In his analysis of Eliot's species of "conservatism" (which he notes did not topple into extremism, into public fascism like Pound's -- though Eliot was predictably anti-Semitic, as has been much-discussed), Obama aligns himself neither with "ecstatic" liberal thought or the far right -- with poetry as the acknowledged "legislator," the Source.

Yes, we've figured out that he's a moderate -- but I believe that the passage reveals more than the musings of an ambivalist, a middle-marcher, off to law school. "Fatalism" is Eliot's observation/theory that "life feeds on itself," there is no way to halt the turn of the mandala -- so conservatism is the only reasonable response to death. Here is Eliot, from "East Coker:"

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark.../The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters/the generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,/distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,/Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark.

From Shelley's rad-poet conjectures and Eliot's morturarial primpings, I'd like to turn to six new books of poems, keeping in mind the two views: Shelley's proactive stance vs. Eliot's "dark" ("In my beginning is my end") predetermined conservatism, where liberal "progressive good" is offset by Death itself. I'd like to consider what poems teach us, beyond the dead-ends of the pure didactic and the immolations of the ecstatic imagination -- perhaps a protean nod to the Art of the Possible?

My friend Professor Ann Pelligrini reminds me that Plato's exiling of poets from the Republic was an acknowledgement of poetry's power to move people, to alter the way we see and are. Plato feared poetry's illusory "imitation" of real life, he feared the "magic" of poetry, its capacity for persuasion. His extreme reaction handily makes Shelley's point -- the poetical imagination is a protean force. It creates metaphors -- linking unlike things, spinning analogies, spinning insights -- re-making the world.

I'm hardly saying that poets should be lawmakers or legislate morality -- nor was Shelley. I doubt we'd want Poetry running for office or lobbying in Washington -- although it would be interesting to read the resulting poems! Again, Ann Pellegrini suggests that Poetry might be a "resource for imagining and engaging in civic life... Part of why poetry and the other arts are so valuable is that they can open spaces of imagination counter to the way things are or must be."

She continues: "We need un-reality principles, and poetry is one such vehicle for that dare." "Un-reality" -- now there's a platform to run on! But those "open spaces' outside of convention are where poets live and think. A poet's life swerves toward inspiration, toward what makes us more human.

Jorie Graham could easily stand as the living contemporary embodiment of Shelley's unorthodox claim, in her new book, Place (Ecco Press - Harper Collins) and in the body of her work. As the poet-critic James Longenbach noted in the New York Times: "For thirty years, Jorie Graham has engaged the whole human contraption -- intellectual, global, domestic, apocalyptic, rather than the narrow emotional slice of it reserved for most poets. She thinks of the poet not as a recorder of experience but as a constructor of experience... someone who addresses the most urgent philosophical and 'political' issues of the time simply by writing poems." Post-modern, post-structuralist, philosophical and beyond -- towards a stance of "simply writing poems," Graham asks us to witness the discovery of the world in words, witness her implacable belief that in words we create human experience.

So the title of her new book, Place, immediately seems ironic. Where do we locate ourselves in these urgent poems, many of the titles geographically specific ("Cagnes Sur Mer," "Mother & Child," "The Road at the Edge of the Field," "The Sure Place," "Earth," "Message from Armagh Cathedral, 2011") -- when Graham encounters space, or physical address, as existing simultaneously between inner and outer landscapes? These ravishing poems tell us that where we live exists in both memory and imagination -- that there is no place beyond what we attach to experience.

The tension between the interior and the exterior here is epitomized by Graham's obsessive search for language attached to accountability. Facing Eliot's annihilating "dark," she is not so much unfazed as re-fathoming. "In the world-famous night which is already flinging away bits of dark..." Eliot's dark, his reduction of history, holds little threat for Graham.

We finally arrive at this fierce address: "Out of the vast network/of blooded things/ a huge breath-held, candle-lit, whistling, planet-wide, still blood flowing/howling-silent, sentence-driven, last-bridge-pulled-up-behind city of the human, the expense/column of place in place humming.../To have a body." It should be noted that the above passage is uncharacteristic of Graham's usual "pace" -- the velocity with which the above litany hits the page is accelerated beyond her usual meditative stately gait. This sped-up rhythm itself becomes a place for the mind to position itself.

We see to "have a body" is to posit place and we begin to understand that to posit "place" is also an urgent argument for human survival. In a future undefined and ominous, our children, our trepidations, are one -- as the earth dies.

I believe that this is Jorie Graham's best book. It combines all that she has learned moving through various incarnations -- sailing past the Enlightenment, turning to High Modernism, then to "L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E" theory and out again into her own transgressive aesthetic, which is what Stevens calls "the poem of the act of the mind". To isolate each perspective here -- mother and child, torturer and victim, traders in stocks and war, the blooded suffering, the rendering of seconds that tick and triumph, as flowers bloom, a bird sings - is the rhetorical style that is an achieved presence, what we used to call immortal -- when heaven, as a place, as a point of comparison, still existed.


David St. John is known for his languorous, lush language -- his poems have for years evoked Mallarme in their dreamy symbolist gestures -- and Mallarme still drops in on these new poems. However, in The Auroras (Harper Collins), St. John glides into a new style, nearer to a troubadour's plangent tensile delivery. In the spirit of Arnaut Daniel, the Provencal troubadour poet (whom Dante thought the greatest bard ever), St. John, fashions his songs as Il miglior fabbro -- the better creator. Like the troubadours, wandering poet-minstrels, singing the "news," singing in the dawn, each poem here is formed like blown glass, to shape the vessel of thought and emotion.

Aurora, Latin for "dawn," also calls up Wallace Stevens' The Auroras of Autumn ("the greatest French symbolist writing in English"). Many of these poems provide the sensation of coming awake (as a lover or a suicide, out of dream, out of memory) as a new day breaks.

These intensely lyrical poems seem not the least "legislative" -- yet St. John employs the "aurora" dawnsong stanza again and again to "cover" his passage into the underworld, into Eliot's "dark" oblivion -- into death, suicide, betrayal, addiction, the history of torture.

How does poetry that is highly figurative and delicate, manage the "story" of genocide? From the poem, "Human Fields:"

She was hiking along those

Clearings & fields

Where hundreds of bodies
Had been shoveled into shelves

Of earth & sockets or rock
Villages hacked entirely to pieces

& planted haphazardly in the ruts
& furrows & she made herself recall

These were now human fields
No longer given over to local crops

From which at times a stray
Stalk of mud-caked shinbone

Or some misguided white rake of
A hand might reach up

Out of its bed as if
A new order had been announced

As if some heaven of actual memory
Had begun to radiate at last beyond

The cold & actual sky


This is not a typical poem but it is a representative poem -- the architecture of The Auroras collapses the wall between life and death. In an extraordinary poem, "The Hungry Ghost" (the Buddhist "preta" or gaki, starving dead), the narrator finds a dying friend, an addict, whose heart is being devoured by a hungry ghost -- and "saves" the friend by substituting a bowl of ripe strawberries for the living beating heart.

The heart-strawberry link satisfies a certain St. John fin de siecle decadent symmetry, but the rescue of the dying addict propitiates more than gods or spirits, the negotiation with "the dark" succeeds, human will and imagination prevail. Thus the hungry ghost is more than a motif, it is an argument for remembering the dead within life and living within the moment -- as these breakthrough stirring poems honor each day's re-birth, the dawn.


Michael Ryan has always been a "conversational" poet and his readers have come to recognize his tone of address as both brash and tender, formal and wildly informal. A quote from the author on the jacket copy of This Morning (Houghton-Mifflin) his new book of poems reads: "The twin ancient powers of poetry are story and song, 'I like a lot of both.'" That statement offers a sense of his "voice" range -- from its evocation of the history of the art to the homey "here's what I like." Ryan employs the narrative as rhetorical device that sets up arguments -- often arguments with himself. His persona in his poems is that of a quizzical, thankful, anxious, casually eloquent man, a husband, a father, a family man. More than any of the other poets considered here, Ryan is concerned with what it means to "live up" to an ethical standard (as glimmers of a libertine-ish past occasionally taunt him) -- he wants to live a worthy life.

He mentions "song." The music in Ryan's poems is meticulously orchestrated and vibrant. In a characteristically hilarious yet questioning-existential poem called "The Daily News," Ryan moves from his epigraph, a quote from J.S. Mill, to a kind of syncopated jazz riff on the meaning of the "common feelings" and "common destiny of human beings" as he imagines turning into Wordsworth on a stroll:

Out walking in my nature-or-nurture,

culture or creature, we-are-all-fucked
funk, I wandered like great-browed Wordsworth
lonely as a cloud upon his daffodils

In Ryan's comical near-despairing universe, Flannery O'Connor is invoked as a kind of psychopomp guide into the mind of the owner of a "wackily painted California beach town clunker" -- maybe "half-Christ, half con-man." His "unwordsworthy contemplation of nature," of the crazily-painted car, leads him to the music of "retune and returne/and retune my attention" -- a reaffirmation of poetry by the poem's end, also reaffirming "our idolatrous, splintered common life."

Ryan's strict elegant formal structures cannily allow for a deceptive nonchalance - coupled with searching compassion. A "ravaged man" in a cancer clinic, whose face and body are being eaten away by melanoma, may be "communing with Buddha" but "probably not."

Probably the malignance

eating his being, minute by minute

has beaten him into its mute instrument
of pain and loneliness and fear.
There may be sweet freedom in the firmament
Not here.

The rhyming quatrains of this heartbreaking poem refresh the music and "retune attention" but there is no escaping the end, the inevitable, Eliot's dark. But bleakness, hopelessness and despair (a poem called "Dachau" notes that "humans can do anything to one another and go on living") are counter-balanced by poems of love and desire for the loving life to continue. ("I wouldn't mind being dead/if I could still be with you.")

What we learn from these poems is that powerful mantra, "retune, retune, retune" attention -- to keep imagining oneself more compassionate, more wise -- ("even as I read now about tortures in Iraq or Guatanamo"), more loving, more capable of grasping poetry's insights, more capable of loving the "idolatrous splintered common life" these superb poems define.

THE APHASIA CAF? (IF SF Press) by Dawn McGuire, who is a doctor, a neurologist, gives us a glimpse of a world where poetry has often offered inspiration (there have been and are many doctor poets -- Keats, Williams, Goldsmith, Holub, Campo). Since aphasia, like poetry, is created by language, McGuire's strength as a poet is in opening the space in this language "deficit" to let poetry "speak." In her introduction to the book, she tells us that her "experiments" are not confined to "frank" aphasia (loss of ability to express or understand language as a symbol system, resulting from brain injury or disease) but also to explore the "everyday aphasia we all share: the way we often can't say what we mean or mean what we say."

This poet-doctor praises the poems and the strength of 2011 Nobel laureate for literature, Tomas Transtromer, and his wife, Monica -- describing how the poet turned to music to recover some of his "lost" abilities after he suffered a stroke in 1990. McGuire interrogates the word "stroke" itself for clues to its relevance to individual consciousness. She asks, "Is stroke the right word?" Then, "Stroke's right -- Struck down by a god." (Though it is clear that no "gods" are consulted in her clinic or on Grand Rounds -- she ways in a later poem, "I know so much. I wish I had some faith.")

These poems strike me as a brave cluster of "teachable moments" (that smarmy phrase!) more appropriately called by McGuire "experiments." For example, she links poetic music to clinical observation, in a poem called "Solitaire at the Aphasia Caf?." "The only time she seems to understand/a word is when he comes; but then/he sits around with music earphones in./She talks a streak and plays her hand/and plays her hand again -" Language and consciousness, in poetry and in neurological alteration, what we express and what becomes inexpressible but still insistent in us -- becomes the final acknowledgement of poetry's power.


Stephen Motika is a young poet, publisher and poetry advocate -- who offers a dreamily-radical perspective on poetry. The epigraph to his book, Western Practice (Alice James Books) is a quote from Lyn Hejinian, ending with: "That doesn't say it all, or even a greater part" -- and the reader feels this poet's attempt to restore what has been lost, (what language attempts to say) -- throughout these lovely disjunctive litany-poems, in L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E style. Altered and floating syntax reveal the coalescing of perspective, as if we were gazing at pointillist paintings: "early hours, resistant to time, an arrival, people out of rooms and gathered... to eat." Or "Wrapped in English, sleep exhumed and theory at map's edge, cast in ornament, artifice, my tongue an observer." (From "Tea Palinode - 18th & Sanchez.")

More than other poets, Motika's work swerves closest to Ann Pellegrini's "unreality principle" -- the world he has created has broken free of the grounding of syntax and we are in the realm of pure imaginative speculation.

Finally, we come to Dana Gioia's new book, Pity The Beautiful (Graywolf Press), and return to Eliot's conservatism -- and the inexorable move "into the dark." It is an easy transition to Pity from Eliot's gloomy roll call of citizens and artists swept away in the tide. The title (and title poem) are satiric pleas for compassion for those who have briefly shone in the bright gaze of the gods of good fortune -- once young and beautiful, once star-like, but now burnt out and irrelevant. The tricky cruel witness is mitigated finally by what seems a sly empathy -- in the knowledge that we all "come to dust."

The further knowledge gleaming in these stark and straightforward poems is a "fallen" awareness (as per Eliot). The narrator's voice in the poems is the voice of one "familiar with the night," its tone drawn from the dark bravado of bitterness and loss.

The darkness deepens. There are poems on the death of a child -- or the suffering of children. "So this is where the children come to die" ... unbearable witness to the little ones, "...bald and pale,/they lie in bright pajamas on their beds." The "speaker" of the poems has lost a child, "Now you'd be three,/ I said to myself/ seeing a child born/the same summer as you."

There are poems of reckoning and sometimes pretty regret, and lost love, love spurned, the "lunacy" of love, and a haunted tale -- a kind of contemporary "La Belle Dame sans Merci," where a ghost seems hair-raisingly real. There are translations from the Italian of Mario Luzi, and throughout a jauntiness, a whistling past the graveyard.

But the mask of jauntiness falls and reveals, again and again, a stricken slow-burning gaze ("How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea?), so that even a beautiful carved "santo" ("The Angel with a Broken Wing") carved by Mendoza "for a country church," stands "like a dead thing nailed to a perch/a crippled saint against a painted sky."

Yes, pity the beautiful -- pity also the ordinary blameless tragedies, the cheerfully damned and the damned anyway: these are tough hard-won poems and they offer little comfort -- they are in the tradition of Eliot's conservatism, in the tradition of stoic restraint. I don't know that anyone has ever called Dana Gioia a poet of grief, but he is. Not self-pitying, but a tempered easeful grief, in plain style. This poet, having spent some time around bodies of law-makers, would find Shelley's claim for bards risible, undoubtedly -- so perhaps Obama's early reading of Eliot's "deep fatalism" still stands, counteracting the "unreality principle" that might allow the imagination a new kind of citizenry.

But one can still salute Shelley, and think on the knowledge poetry provides.

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