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Harrison Ford may don Indiana Jones' famed fedora once again. In an interview with The Telegraph, Ford said he would be open to playing Dr. Henry Jones Jr. (they named the dog Indiana) for a fifth time onscreen.
"We've seen the character develop and grow over a period of time and it's perfectly appropriate and okay for him to come back again with a great movie around him where he doesn't necessarily have to kick as much ass," Ford, 71, told The Telegraph.
Whether Ford gets the chance to play Indiana Jones again is, of course, up for debate. Right now, no plans are in motion for a fifth film, owing to the fact that producer George Lucas has not yet found an acceptable MacGuffin with which to drive the plot.
"I really haven't found the MacGuffin yet," Lucas told Vulture in 2011. "I mean, I know what it's about, but I just have to find a MacGuffin that fits into the arena we're working in."
Those comments were echoed by producer Frank Marshall in an interview last year with Collider.
?I say, for me, ['Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' is] the last hurrah," he said, referencing the much-derided fourth film in the franchise. "I know that yes, we talk about it, but there?s no idea; there?s no MacGuffin.?
For more on Ford's comments, head to The Telegraph.
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Recent Samsung ads for the Galaxy S4 have been used to highlight a unique feature of the phone that can automatically pause video when you turn your head away from your device. This has been an exclusive feature on the S4 for quite some time, but is now available to jailbroken iOS users through a new tweak called FaceHalt.
While early versions of FaceHalt seemed a bit buggy and unstable, the latest build works flawlessly on both the iPhone and iPad. The tweak works system-wide, from the YouTube app to the built-in Videos app, and all of the third-party apps tested. The biggest downside? You?ll actually have to watch those YouTube ads now.
FaceHalt is available on Cydia now for $1.99 on the BigBoss repo.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? It doesn't debut until next month, but the Fox sitcom "Dads" is already taking heat in early reviews for being crass, sexist and exploiting racial stereotypes.
Facing reporters Thursday, its stars and producers defended the show as focusing on human frailties for the sake of laughs and enlightenment. They vowed to refine it, as needed, as the season unfolds, and asked its audience not to rush to judgment.
"In the pilot (episode) we all noticed some things we'd like to change or tweak moving forward," co-creator Alec Sulkin said at the session of the Television Critics Association. He acknowledged they may have "missed the mark a few times" in the pilot.
"The first six episodes, you're improving your pilot," said Mike Scully, another executive producer whose credits include the once-excoriated "The Simpsons."
"I think you're going to notice a change in the tone and balance," Scully said.
Yet another executive producer of the series is Seth MacFarlane, who wasn't present at the session. His animated comedies, including "Family Guy," have won him popularity as well as criticism for their rawness.
"Dads" centers on two friends, played by Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi, whose politically incorrect fathers re-enter their lives and disrupt them. The raucous, loose-lipped dads are played by Martin Mull and Peter Riegert.
"Historically, television has been a provocative medium. It's a medium we look at to observe ourselves," said Green, before noting that the show has "some disparaging portraits of white men."
"Dads" premieres Sept. 17.
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From Aug. 7 to 12, The Historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington D.C. is embracing a new type of green technology, one that will clear unwanted plant species while producing fresh fertilizer: ?eco goats.?
A herd of more than 100 goats will be temporarily grazing along the edges of the cemetery, clearing a 1.6-acre area of invasive plant species such as vines, poison ivy, and other ground cover. The goats are being used in lieu of herbicides that could damage native plant species. This method will protect the large, mature trees in the cemetery?s wooded area.
Naturally, the goats will also fertilize the ground while they work.
The Association for the Preservation of the Congressional Cemetery partnered with Eco-Goats, a company that uses goats to restore land overgrown with unwanted weeds. The goats will be grazing 24 hours a day for six days. Although the grazing areas will be penned off, visitors to the cemetery will be able to see the goats?watching a herd of 100-plus bleating goats traipse around the cemetery could be entertaining.
The event will kick off with a media event Aug. 7, and the goats will be grazing for six days.
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FILE - This Saturday, July 6, 2013 aerial file photo shows the wreckage of the Asiana Flight 214 airplane after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Officials are looking into whether some attorneys may have violated a U.S. law barring uninvited solicitation of air disaster victims in the first 45 days after an accident in connection with the crash landing of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco. The National Transportation Safety Board says it has received an unspecified number of complaints about solicitations since the July 6 accident that killed three Chinese teenage girls and injured 180. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
FILE - This Saturday, July 6, 2013 aerial file photo shows the wreckage of the Asiana Flight 214 airplane after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Officials are looking into whether some attorneys may have violated a U.S. law barring uninvited solicitation of air disaster victims in the first 45 days after an accident in connection with the crash landing of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco. The National Transportation Safety Board says it has received an unspecified number of complaints about solicitations since the July 6 accident that killed three Chinese teenage girls and injured 180. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
FILE - In this Saturday, July 6, 2013, file photo provided by passenger Benjamin Levy, passengers from Asiana Airlines flight 214 are treated by first responders on the tarmac just moments after the plane crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Officials are looking into whether some attorneys may have violated a U.S. law barring uninvited solicitation of air disaster victims in the first 45 days after an accident in connection with the crash landing of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco. The National Transportation Safety Board says it has received an unspecified number of complaints about solicitations since the July 6 accident that killed three Chinese teenage girls and injured 180. (AP Photo/Benjamin Levy)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Officials are looking into whether some attorneys may have violated a U.S. law barring uninvited solicitation of air disaster victims in the first 45 days after an accident in connection with the crash landing of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it has received an unspecified number of complaints about solicitations since the July 6 accident that killed three Chinese teenage girls and injured 180.
NTSB spokesman Keith Holloway said the complaints involved attorney websites directed at passengers of the flight and reports of attorneys approaching passengers in person to solicit business. He said the NTSB reported one firm, Chicago-based Ribbeck Law Chartered, to the Illinois agency that regulates attorneys for further investigation of its online communications and in-person meetings with passengers.
"We have investigated every report of alleged attorney misconduct we have received, and if the evidence suggests a violation we forwarded it to the appropriate state ... association for further review," Holloway said, declining to elaborate on exactly why Ribbeck was referred.
So far, Ribbeck is the only firm the NTSB has referred for further examination. Holloway declined to name or say how many other law firms the agency received complaints about.
Ribbeck attorney Monica Kelly said the firm legally and ethically obtained all its clients related to the crash and that all initiated contact with the firm, which she said has represented victims in previous airline accidents. The firm is investigating what caused the crash on behalf of 83 passengers, according to a filing in Illinois state court.
"We were invited by Chinese government officials in China and the United States, including their local diplomats, to meet their Chinese nationals to represent them," Kelly said in an email to The Associated Press. She said the firm's representative in Shanghai also was "contacted by a group of families affected by this tragedy seeking legal representation."
Kelly did not respond to additional messages from the AP requesting comment specifically related to the NTSB's action.
William Wang, Ribbeck's Shanghai-based lawyer, told the AP that he talked to passengers and their families in China.
"I told them that USA would be the right place to sue instead of China or Korea. I told them that even the ones who had not been injured could sue as well, because there could be mental effects," Wang said in an interview. "I gave them the files which had been offered by Ribbeck Law in USA, and I did the translation."
At issue is a 1996 federal law that lays out the responsibilities airline companies and the NTSB have in assisting victims and their families after an air disaster. The law was passed after victims' families complained that airline companies and the government kept them in the dark about the status of their loved ones for too long after several high-profile disasters.
The law also addressed rising complaints about unseemly attorney behavior by barring uninvited solicitations for 30 days. The moratorium was extended to 45 days in 2000. Lawyers can be punished with a fine of up to $1,000 for each violation.
It is legal for victims themselves to initiate a consultation, or hire lawyers, during the 45-day period.
"Aviation accidents are considered especially ripe for voluminous, concerted and aggressive solicitation" because of the publicity, the availability of passenger manifests and the potential for large recoveries, said Brian Havel, who heads DePaul University's International Aviation Law Institute.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General has launched solicitation probes previously and referred cases to federal prosecutors. Two attorneys each paid $5,000 to settle a case alleging they violated the 45-day rule after Colgan Flight 3407 crashed in 2009 approaching Buffalo Airport in New York, killing all 49 people aboard.
Holloway said that NTSB referred Ribbeck to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission because the "state could best address this issue."
DOT inspector general spokesman Dave Wonnenberg said the office doesn't confirm or deny the existence of investigations. James Grogan, chief counsel of the Illinois agency, also said his organization neither confirms nor denies investigations.
Bian Zhouzhou, vice consul at the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, said he agreed to meet with some of Ribbeck's U.S. lawyers after Wang contacted him and asked for a meeting. Bian said he didn't facilitate any meetings between passengers and Ribbeck lawyers. Instead, he said he met briefly three weeks ago with a few lawyers in the lobby of a hotel near the San Francisco airport where many Chinese passengers were staying following the accident.
Bian said the Ribbeck lawyers described their expertise in air disaster litigation and left him with documents describing the firm's practice areas. Bian said he put the documents in a temporary office the consulate had at the hotel.
"Our consulate has the duty to forward information to our citizens who have difficulties in the United States," Bian said. He said he also has met with at least one other law firm, which he declined to name.
Wang used Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, to discuss the Asiana crash.
"Entrusted by American lawyers, I request that Asiana Airlines air crash families contact me," Wang wrote in Chinese on the morning of July 11. "This air crash happened in the United States and involves complicated legal issues. I request that families act with extra caution in the claims settlement that will follow. I hope that things will go smoothly for everyone!"
Wang later posted another message on Sina Weibo explaining that "lawyers in Chicago who specialize in air crashes" would be visiting Asiana passengers and their families at a hotel near the San Francisco airport.
"This is a good opportunity to handle the follow-up from the air crash," Wang wrote.
In an interview, Wang declined to comment on whether his blog posts may have violated the 45-day rule. However, he said that he believed the rule unfairly gives airline companies the opportunity to offer passengers settlements in amounts less than they deserve in return for the passengers relinquishing their rights to join lawsuits.
He said passengers should have the right to the best possible legal advice before entering into such an agreement.
"After the plane crash happened, if we were to strictly follow the 45-day rule and wait until the period is over, the rights of the victims and their families would have long been hurt by some greedy insurance companies, which could have fooled them into signing settlements," said Wang. "The 45-day rule is actually an unjust one for the victims."
The NTSB's Holloway would not comment on Wang's communications.
Professor Richard Zitrin, who teaches legal ethics at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said Wang's communications may be a violation of the moratorium even though they occurred on foreign soil.
On July 15, nine days after the crash, Ribbeck filed a petition for discovery in Illinois state court against Boeing. It names 30 of the passengers the firm represents but says it is on behalf of all 83 of its clients. It's not a lawsuit but a mechanism to preserve evidence in case a lawsuit is filed, and it was the first reported court action connected to Asiana Flight 214.
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AP Writer Ian Mader reported from Beijing. AP researcher Fu Ting in Shanghai and reporter Gillian Wong and news assistant Zhao Liang in Beijing contributed to this story.
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A former California High School history teacher and junior varsity basketball coach faces sentencing in late August after pleading no contest to having sex with a then-17-year-old student, officials said.
"John Gilbert Orellano pleaded no contest to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse on July 26," Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Shiara Davila-Morales said. The plea was entered at what was scheduled to be a hearing to determine a date for the 36-year-old Anaheim resident.
Orellano was initially charged with two counts of unlawful intercourse, as well as two counts of oral copulation with a minor.
He admitted the single count under a negotiated plea arrangement, Davila-Morales said.
He was ordered back to Norwalk Superior Court for sentencing Aug. 30, when he was expected to receive 90 days jail time, as well as five years felony probation, she said. He will not be required to register as a sex offender.
Prosecutors alleged Orellano had sex with the student in February, district attorney's officials said.
The investigation into Orellano began with allegations that he had sent sexually explicit messages to the girl beginning in January, according to Sgt. Nancy Drake of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Special Victims Bureau.
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He was placed on administrative leave once Whittier Union High School District officials learned of the allegations on March 13, district officials said. Orellano, who had worked for the WUHSD for two years, resigned two days later.
"We worked very closely with the Sheriff's Department to get resolution to this issue," WUHSD Superintendent Sandra Thorstenson said. "It was our coordination with the department that initiated an investigation and (Orellano) was immediately removed from the classroom."
WUHSD officials added that the incident was handled swiftly and appropriately by both district staff and law enforcement.
"In addition to the student's trust he violated, I truly feel that this was a crime against the entire community," Thorstenson said. "Now that the courtroom portion of this ordeal is over, it is my hope that he is punished accordingly."
Orellano has remained free through the trial process after posting $240,000 bail three days after his May 15 arrest, according to county booking records. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
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It's the thick of summer, at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. And for many, that means it's time for the long-awaited annual vacation.
It can be about discovery, de-stressing, and spending time with those dearest to us. But vacation trends vary by geography, and they change with the times.
People's vacation choices shed light on this year's shifting patterns of globalization, which have been dominated by the rise of emerging economies.
While European travel is down, Russians, Chinese, Brazilians, and others are traveling abroad as never before. International tourism from advanced countries is projected to grow by 2.2 percent annually, while from emerging countries the rise will be double that. By 2030, 1 billion tourists from emerging economies will travel across borders.
These new travelers are part of a new global middle class that is traveling internationally for many reasons: to see parts of the world once closed off, to sample shopping abroad, to take advantage of cheaper and safer travel opportunities outside their own country, or to satisfy their curiosity. The Internet has already closed global divides, but it's the face-to-face contact tourists can have with locals in a cafes or street markets that ultimately provides deeper cultural understanding.
Take Russia, for example. Russians are relative newcomers to the global tourist scene. For much of the past century they were locked up inside the former Soviet Union, and most travel opportunities came in the form of a few weeks at a state-run sanitarium on the Black Sea or a Volga River cruise. Even now, the concept of a standard vacation is not of travel far and wide, but, as in the old days, to a dacha in the countryside to commune with nature and put down vegetables for winter consumption.
After the collapse of the USSR, it was mainly the freshly enriched "new Russians" who could travel abroad, earning a reputation for themselves, mainly across Europe, as loud and abrasive guests and wildly extravagant spenders.
Over the past decade, however, the relative mass prosperity of the Vladimir Putin years has created a new type of Russian tourist, a genuinely middle-class traveler who is stepping out into the world for the first time. "More than half of Russians these days prefer to leave home," says Yury Barzykin, vice president of the Russian Union of Tour Operators, an industry group.
These new travelers tend to be far more budget-conscious than their "nouveau riche" cousins, and also quieter, as well as more curious and respectful of foreign cultures. Millions of them flock each summer to eastern Mediterranean countries such as Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus, where tour operators have designed cheap, often all-inclusive, Russian-speaking packages for them, and governments have eased visa requirements.
Chinese overseas tourism is also booming, as the growing army of middle-class Chinese broaden their horizons and spend more of their increasing disposable income on travel.
"Over the past decade China has been, and still is, by far the fastest-growing tourism source market in the world," according to a report published in April by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. In 2000, Chinese citizens made 10 million trips abroad; last year they made 83 million such trips, according to the UNWTO.
And their spending power has transformed the industry. Chinese travelers spent a record $102 billion in 2012, well ahead of Germans, the former top spenders, and Americans. With Chinese tourist numbers predicted to keep growing, they "will surely continue to change the map of world tourism," UNWTO chief Taleb Rifai said recently.
This does not always translate into cultural interchange ? at least outside shopping malls.
"Most Chinese tourists do not seek out great hotels or care much about the food," says Wei Xiao'an, a former senior official at China's National Tourism Administration. "Many of them don't even pay much attention to the scenery; their top priority is shopping."
That is partly because Chinese taxes on imported goods, especially luxury items, are high and because Chinese travel agencies strike deals with malls that pay them a commission on all their clients' purchases.
"It's the main way the agencies make money," says Mr. Wei.
Russians and Chinese are the globe's burgeoning tourists, but the trends are reflected across the emerging world. In June of this year, 155,000 South Koreans traveled overseas, a 21 percent increase over 2011, according to Hana Tour, South Korea's largest travel agency.
Over five years, the percentage of Brazilians who said they planned to travel abroad has risen steadily. In June 2008, 19 percent said they would go abroad, according to polling by the university Funda??o Get?lio Vargas and the Brazilian Tourism Ministry. In June of this year, that number rose to 29 percent.
Part of the impulse is the "been there" factor. Andr? Coelho, a specialist in tourism at Funda??o Get?lio Vargas, says that Brazilians travel often to Europe and the United States, as well as Caribbean beaches and popular South American sites.
"A Brazilian likes to say that he traveled abroad in his conversations, to say, 'I've been to Paris; I know that place,' " he says.
In Pakistan, foreign travel has been buoyed in part because of persistent problems at home. Pakistan's northern areas have become increasingly off limits to travelers, prompting them to look elsewhere for vacation options. Areas like the Swat Valley, a scenic and popular vacation spot, faced a brutal Pakistani Taliban insurgency and military operation, followed by flooding in 2010. A recent attack on foreign tourists on a mountaineering expedition to Nanga Parbat in the Himalayan range is also forcing potential travelers to stay away from the Gilgit-Baltistan region, which is home to several other popular vacation spots.
Instead, they are opting to leave the country, going to places that have more relaxed visa requirements, such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Turkey.
In some countries, travelers look beyond their borders simply because it's cheaper. In South Africa, for example, travel consultant Julia Barnett says that travel within the continent is too expensive for most South Africans, especially when compared with the Far East with its plethora of budget options.
That means certain countries are losing out on a growing industry ? like Russia, which still suffers from bad roads, undeveloped facilities, and surly service, to which the post-Soviet era has added extremely high prices. While domestic tourism grows by about 10 percent annually, foreign tourism is up 15 percent each year.
"We're a cold, northern country, and many of our compatriots understandably want to vacation near a warm sea," says Irina Shchegolkova, press spokeswoman for the governmental Federal Agency for Tourism. But she says the government is stepping up efforts to promote domestic tourism, from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea. "We think that with more investment, and a lot more efforts, most Russians in the future are going to start seeing their own country as the place they most want to take a vacation in."
But for now, the wanderlust of going "beyond" is driving the world's travelers, as the tourism landscape changes as quickly as the new global economic map.
? Jeremy Ravinsky provided additional research for this story.
GLOBAL TOURISM FACTS
? There were 1.035 billion tourists in 2012, the first time the number has ever broken the billion mark.
? Tourism provided 1 in 11 of the world?s jobs and accounted for 9 percent of the global GDP in 2012.
? Between January and April 2013, 298 million tourists traveled internationally ? 12 million more than during the same period last year.
? This year?s tourist season (May-August) is projected to see 435 million international tourists traveling.
? By 2030, there will be 1.8 billion international tourists. Emerging economies will account for 57 percent of that: more than 1 billion tourist arrivals per year.
Source: UNWTO
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Prof. William G. Howell hopes to focus the national conversation about the American presidency. In his new book, Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power, Howell argues that to understand presidential behavior, it is necessary to recognize that a president's core interest is in guarding, acquiring and expanding his base of power.
"This single, simple insight about the president and power goes a long way to explaining presidential behavior," said Howell, the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, in an interview about his new book, arguing that once this fundamental truth is more widely accepted, discourse on the presidency will become more coherent and fruitful.
Howell hopes his new work will advance presidential studies similarly to how David Mayhew's 1974 book, Congress: The Electoral Connection affected legislative studiesproviding an organizational template for future arguments and theories.
"Mayhew pointed out the profound effect that concern with reelection had on the behavior of legislators and that changed and focused the conversation," Howell said. "Right now in presidential studies, there is a real preoccupation with anecdotes and stories while scholars are talking past one another."
Howell contends that the presidential preoccupation with power is not a single-minded pursuit, but that its attainment and maintenance affects all presidential efforts, whether they involve bargaining with others or new sources of influence. In fact, he adds, concerns about power are logical and necessary to enact public policy, undo the work of predecessors, respond to perceived public mandates and secure a strong place in history.
"The president sits alone atop his governing institution and has eyes on a broader and longer horizon than legislators or judges or bureaucrats," he explained. "He represents the country as a whole. This is part and parcel of a president's need to obtain power and to exert control. He needs to dominate his branch of government and the whole institution."
Of course, wanting power and holding power are two different things. In the book, Howell explains that when the Founding Fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution they gave the president only a handful of enumerated powers, but the ambiguity of the document has allowed consecutive presidents to add to their powers over time. At the same time, the Constitution posits that the general welfare will be protected and promoted not by any single branch of government, but through the interplay of all the three branches.
"Sitting alone on a hill and preaching wisdom and exercising self-restraint is not what the founders had in mind," Howell said. "They built a government premised on the notion that power would be made to check power and that ambition would be made to check ambition."
Howell believes that today's popular notion that presidents should exercise more self-restraint and limit their executive authority is misguided.
"It ignores the foundational incentives that executives face, incentives where they are asked to address every conceivable problem in the world and yet they lack the formal authority within the constitution to fulfill those expectations. They have to manufacture power or they have to beseech the other branches of government to give them powers that are not automatically found in the Constitution if they stand any chance at survival."
Interestingly, even as presidents accumulate more power for themselves, at no time are they seen more as failures than when they do not exercise that power, especially when it appears that they are refusing to act.
One example of this is President Jimmy Carter and the Iran hostage crisis. In 1979, a group of young Islamic militants stormed the embassy in Tehran and held 66 Americans prisoner for 444 days. Howell points out that Carter's failure to end the crisis earlier derived not from unwillingness to act but from a lack of viable options. But the fact that more was not done ultimately led to Carter's downfall.
Still, beyond the Constitutional limits on presidential power are other restrictions, such as cultural misgivings. Built into the American psyche, largely as a result of the dislike of the absolute power held by the British monarchy they left behind, is a condemnation of presidential candidates who betray too much interest in holding the office.
In the 2000 election George W. Bush regularly needled Vice President Al Gore for his long-standing ambition to become president. Further, Washington Post correspondent David Broder derided Gore's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention because he talked about "what he wants to do as president." Consequently, Bush was elected, despite the fact that he also came from a long-standing political family. Howell points out that it was the perception of Gore's thirst for power that defeated him, regardless of the fact that Bush was equally ambitious.
Howells's nuanced examination of power and the presidency explores more than just the attainment of power, it also looks at how a president's pursuit of power manifests itself, how it speaks to the standards Americans set for their presidents and how alternative models of executive leadership are ruled out by these standards. Thinking about the Presidency reframes the study of presidential behavior and could change the way the national electorate thinks about its leader.
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Prof. William G. Howell hopes to focus the national conversation about the American presidency. In his new book, Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power, Howell argues that to understand presidential behavior, it is necessary to recognize that a president's core interest is in guarding, acquiring and expanding his base of power.
"This single, simple insight about the president and power goes a long way to explaining presidential behavior," said Howell, the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, in an interview about his new book, arguing that once this fundamental truth is more widely accepted, discourse on the presidency will become more coherent and fruitful.
Howell hopes his new work will advance presidential studies similarly to how David Mayhew's 1974 book, Congress: The Electoral Connection affected legislative studiesproviding an organizational template for future arguments and theories.
"Mayhew pointed out the profound effect that concern with reelection had on the behavior of legislators and that changed and focused the conversation," Howell said. "Right now in presidential studies, there is a real preoccupation with anecdotes and stories while scholars are talking past one another."
Howell contends that the presidential preoccupation with power is not a single-minded pursuit, but that its attainment and maintenance affects all presidential efforts, whether they involve bargaining with others or new sources of influence. In fact, he adds, concerns about power are logical and necessary to enact public policy, undo the work of predecessors, respond to perceived public mandates and secure a strong place in history.
"The president sits alone atop his governing institution and has eyes on a broader and longer horizon than legislators or judges or bureaucrats," he explained. "He represents the country as a whole. This is part and parcel of a president's need to obtain power and to exert control. He needs to dominate his branch of government and the whole institution."
Of course, wanting power and holding power are two different things. In the book, Howell explains that when the Founding Fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution they gave the president only a handful of enumerated powers, but the ambiguity of the document has allowed consecutive presidents to add to their powers over time. At the same time, the Constitution posits that the general welfare will be protected and promoted not by any single branch of government, but through the interplay of all the three branches.
"Sitting alone on a hill and preaching wisdom and exercising self-restraint is not what the founders had in mind," Howell said. "They built a government premised on the notion that power would be made to check power and that ambition would be made to check ambition."
Howell believes that today's popular notion that presidents should exercise more self-restraint and limit their executive authority is misguided.
"It ignores the foundational incentives that executives face, incentives where they are asked to address every conceivable problem in the world and yet they lack the formal authority within the constitution to fulfill those expectations. They have to manufacture power or they have to beseech the other branches of government to give them powers that are not automatically found in the Constitution if they stand any chance at survival."
Interestingly, even as presidents accumulate more power for themselves, at no time are they seen more as failures than when they do not exercise that power, especially when it appears that they are refusing to act.
One example of this is President Jimmy Carter and the Iran hostage crisis. In 1979, a group of young Islamic militants stormed the embassy in Tehran and held 66 Americans prisoner for 444 days. Howell points out that Carter's failure to end the crisis earlier derived not from unwillingness to act but from a lack of viable options. But the fact that more was not done ultimately led to Carter's downfall.
Still, beyond the Constitutional limits on presidential power are other restrictions, such as cultural misgivings. Built into the American psyche, largely as a result of the dislike of the absolute power held by the British monarchy they left behind, is a condemnation of presidential candidates who betray too much interest in holding the office.
In the 2000 election George W. Bush regularly needled Vice President Al Gore for his long-standing ambition to become president. Further, Washington Post correspondent David Broder derided Gore's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention because he talked about "what he wants to do as president." Consequently, Bush was elected, despite the fact that he also came from a long-standing political family. Howell points out that it was the perception of Gore's thirst for power that defeated him, regardless of the fact that Bush was equally ambitious.
Howells's nuanced examination of power and the presidency explores more than just the attainment of power, it also looks at how a president's pursuit of power manifests itself, how it speaks to the standards Americans set for their presidents and how alternative models of executive leadership are ruled out by these standards. Thinking about the Presidency reframes the study of presidential behavior and could change the way the national electorate thinks about its leader.
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--Robin Mordfin
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Editors scorch 'umpteenth different' jobs plan
BOB UNRUH
July 30,2013
A newspaper editorial today greeted Barack Obama in an entirely new way as he traveled to Chattanooga, Tenn., to visit an Amazon.com business center and lobby for his newest strategy to try to create jobs for Americans.
?Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,? said a commentary in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
?Forgive us if you are not greeted with the same level of Southern hospitality that our area usually bestows on its distinguished guests. You see, we understand you are in town to share your umpteenth different job creation plan during your time in office. If it works as well as your other job creation programs, then thanks, but no thanks. We?d prefer you keep it to yourself,? the newspaper said.
?That?s because your jobs creation plans so far have included a ridiculous government spending spree and punitive tax increase on job creators that were passed, as well as a minimum wage increase that, thankfully, was not. Economists ? and regular folks with a basic understanding of math ? understand that these are three of the most damaging policies imaginable when a country is mired in unemployment and starving for job growth.?
At Amazon?s Chattanooga fulfillment center, Obama praised the operation for being ?kind of like the North Pole of the south right here. ? Got a bunch of good-looking elves here.?
He boasted of creating ?7.2 million new jobs over the last 40 months? because of the ?grit and resilience of the American people.?
?But as I said last week, and as any middle-class family will tell you, we?re not there yet,? Obama said. ?Even before the financial crisis hit, we were going through a decade where a few at the top were doing better and better, but most families were working harder and harder just to get by. And reversing that trend should be Washington?s highest priority.?
He said he wanted to lay out his ideas for creating good jobs but lamented that the Republicans in Congress wouldn?t give him everything he asked for.
Obama cited a strategy to offer incentives for manufacturers to keep jobs in the U.S. or bring them back from overseas, spending billions to catch up on ?deferred maintenance? in the U.S., creating jobs in wind, solar, and natural gas industries, and exporting more.
He also said he wants corporations to hire more people.
?We?re not lacking for ideas, we?re just lacking action, especially out of Washington,? Obama said.
The newspaper noted ?64 percent of Chattanooga respondents said they would rather you hadn?t chosen to visit our fair city,? but the editorial said it actually was good that Obama visited.
?It will give you an opportunity to see the failure of your most comprehensive jobs plan to date, the disastrous stimulus scheme, up close and personal,? the newspaper said.
The commentary cited the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009?s funding of the ?Gig to Nowhere.?
That?s a $552 million ?socialist-style experiment in government-owned Internet, cable and phone services orchestrated by EPB ? Chattanooga?s government-owned electric monopoly.?
?The Gig to Nowhere is a Smart Grid, a high tech local electricity infrastructure intended to improve energy efficiency and reduce power outages. After lobbying for, and receiving, $111.6 million in stimulus money from your administration, EPB decided to build a souped-up version of the Smart Grid with fiber optics rather than more cost-effective wireless technology. This decision was supposed to allow EPB to provide the fastest Internet service in the Western Hemisphere, a gigabit-per-second Internet speed that would send tech companies and web entrepreneurs stampeding to Chattanooga in droves.?
The reality, however, is that the project is ?an absolute bust.?
?While the Smart Grid will cost taxpayers and local electric customers well over a half-billion dollars when all is said and done, there has been little improvement in the quality of EPB?s electric service. Worse, despite being heavily subsidized, EPB?s government-owned Internet, cable and telephone outfit that competes head-to-head against private companies like AT&T and Comcast is barely staying afloat, often relying on loans from electric service reserve funds to afford its business expenses,? the newspaper pointed out.
?Further, there has been no credible evidence to suggest that EPB can even provide a gig of service consistently and reliably. Any companies hoping to utilize the Gig to Nowhere are quoted monthly billing costs that make the service unfeasible. As a result, Chattanooga has remained a relative ghost town for technological innovation. Almost no economic development whatsoever has resulted from the gig,? the newspaper said.
The newspaper said what the government program has achieved is a ?shocking price tag.?
?Because of your unwillingness to balance the budget, Mr. President, the $111.6 million federal handout to subsidize the Gig to Nowhere will actually cost federal taxpayers $158.2 million, due to interest. Once EPB received the stimulus infusion to fund the pork project, the electric monopoly took out a $219.8 bond that will balloon to $391.3 million by the time Chattanoogans are done paying it off.
?The bond?s first payment comes due this fall and there remain significant questions about how EPB can manage to pay the debt without hiking electric rates on EPB customers,? the newspaper said. ?Building a Smart Grid to get into a telecom sector already well-served by private companies was a bad idea from the start. But getting government involved in places it doesn?t belong is a hallmark of your administration.?
Obama?s explained his newest strategy is a plan that ?simplifies the tax code for our businesses and creates good jobs with good wages.?
He said he would be willing to tax code reform ? but only if it allows the government ?to use money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating middle-class jobs.?
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/newspaper...GbkXpB6ih6O.99
Source: http://www.alipac.us/f9/newspaper-spanks-obama-shove-mr-president-284745/
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Missy Franklin of the United States, right, smiles as she holds her gold medal with Australia's Emily Seebohm, silver, after the presentation ceremony for the Women's 100m backstroke final at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Missy Franklin of the United States, right, smiles as she holds her gold medal with Australia's Emily Seebohm, silver, after the presentation ceremony for the Women's 100m backstroke final at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
United States's Missy Franklin swims in a Women's 200m freestyle semifinal at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Michael Phelps will remain the only person to win eight gold medals at a major swimming championship.
For Missy Franklin, a shot is seven was enough.
Franklin gave up on her bid to win eight golds at the world championships Wednesday after a lackluster showing in the preliminaries of the 50-meter backstroke. Even though the 18-year-old advanced to the semifinals, she scratched the event to focus on the 200 freestyle, one of her most demanding events.
The decision was not all that surprising, given the 50 back is a non-Olympic event that Franklin swims mainly for fun. The freestyle has been a major focus this season after she just missed out on medals in the 100 and 200 last summer at the Olympics.
Franklin was a major star in London, winning four golds and a bronze, but she finished fourth in the 200 free ? missing a medal by one-hundredth of a second ? and fifth in the 100 free.
After a demanding double on Tuesday, Franklin acknowledged she wasn't at her best for the preliminaries the following morning.
She posted the 13th-fastest time at 28.44 seconds ? nearly a second behind the top qualifier, China's Fu Yuanhui in 27.55.
"I'm a little sore this morning, I'm not going to lie," Franklin said, before it was revealed she was scratching.
Franklin did win a bronze in the 50 back at the 2011 world championships in Shanghai, so her coach, Todd Schmitz, put it on the program for Barcelona.
But the one-lap sprint is a bit of a crapshoot, with Franklin merely a contender rather than the overwhelming favorite that she is in the 100 and 200 back.
"The 50 back is kind of just a fun event with no pressure," she said. "You have that one lap down the pool and so much can happen. It's kind of fun because you never really know what's going to happen."
Franklin went into the evening session looking to go 3 for 3 at worlds. She already won gold medals in the 400 free relay and the 100 back. She was the second-fastest qualifier in the 200 free behind Italy's Federica Pelligrini.
"It's going be very, very tough," Franklin said. "The field is so close."
Phelps won seven golds at the 2007 worlds in Melbourne, missing out on a chance for No. 8 when the U.S. was disqualified in the prelims of the 400 medley relay while he was resting up to swim in the final.
The following year, of course, he won eight golds at the Beijing Olympics.
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A national joke vs. the biggest network's biggest show of the summer. Guess which won on Twitter?
Are we worrying too much about social media?
TV executives think maybe we are. It's fashionable to use Twitter, Facebook and GetGlue interactions to measure buzz about shows. But those interactions don't always pay off in terms of viewers.
CBS Corp. chief research officer David F. Poltrack laid out the case Monday that we may be worrying too much about what people are tweeting, using two extreme examples: SyFy's "Sharknado" and CBS's "Under the Dome."
"Sharknado" became a national joke as it rose to number six in Bluefin rankings measuring buzz on Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Even highbrow names like Mia Farrow and Philip Roth got in on the jokes. SyFy tried to seize some control of the Twitter phenomenon by announcing a contest to name the sequel.
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But for all that online attention, only 1.4 million people watched the initial airing of "Sharknado." A rebroadcast earned 1.9 million.
"Under the Dome," meanwhile, rose to only 13th in the BlueFin rankings. It didn't lend itself to jokes as easily as SyFy's flying sharks story. But it earned 13.5 million viewers in its first viewing, and more than 20 million including streaming and DVR viewing.
There are certainly programs -- the Super Bowl, for example -- that dominate in both online chatter and TV ratings. But Poltrack said research provided by KellerFay Group indicates that 80 percent of word-of-mouth endorsements take place face to face.
That's right: Human beings talking to other human beings, with no hashtags.
"Don't assume that because 'NCIS' doesn't have a lot of people tweeting about it, that there aren't a lot of people talking about it," Poltrack said, citing the example of TV's most-watched scripted show. (The highest rated show in the key 18-49 demo, meanwhile, is "Walking Dead," a social media dynamo.)
"If you follow Twitter and you follow BlueFin, you would think that 'Pretty Little Liars' is the most-watched televsion show. And it may be with the very narrow group of young women who are obsessed with that show and are probably also obsessed with Twitter."
In spite of that, Poltrack said, networks still like Twitter, because it can help promote tune-in. Facebook seems to be an even bigger factor, he said.
"Twitter is growing, Twitter is expanding. Their scope will get bigger. This phenomenon is going to grow. We are not avoiding it. We are immersing ourselves in it. But right now, it's really focused ... on a small segment of the population."
Source: http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/sharknado-vs-under-dome-and-limits-twitter-106656
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