Saturday, June 30, 2012

I Want To Get Married Now, Any Suggestions?

I Want to Get Married Now, Any Suggestions?

Seem like your ready to get married. Are you sure? Marriage is a big step in anybody's life, and if you're totally ready, then go for it. There might be one problem with your situation, right? There is no man in your life to married, and in some cases a woman to get married to. Don't give up, okay. I believe in you, so that means you should believe in yourself.

Believing is one thing that separates failure from success. When you believe in something that means you are waiting patiently. Haven't you notice whenever you're not willing to wait for something, you slightly have doubt about it. That's the reason for you wanting it to happen so fast, because you feel like if it doesn't happen now, then it will never happen. So, you find yourself being this way with all of your relationships, rushing and hoping to be committed to fast in the relationship or else something bad will happen and the relationship will fall apart like the rest of all of your other relationships. Bummer! Do you notice the trend?

If you want to get married, my suggestion to you is this...

"If you are not happy being single, you will never be happy in a relationship. Get your own life and love it first, then share it". I don't know whose quote this is, but I totally feel where it's coming from. I know of too many girls that are miserable about their life because they don't have a man and think they will be happy when a man is in it. Wrong, it doesn't happen that way sweetie.

When you are happy while single, you understand that a man is not your maid (he's not obligated to clean your gutters, or mow your lawn when you meet him just to show you he's into you or respect you) when you first meet him. When you are happy while single, you also understand that you don't have to always have sex for him to stay with you. And just because you do whatever he says and put your needs and wants aside for him doesn't means that he will love you forever and decide to commit and marry you. I'm sorry, but these things will do you more harm than good in all of your relationships.

I want to get married; you want to get married; we all want to get married. Abe believe it or not, all men want to get married. They may not admit, but they do. First, they must find that woman that understands them and love them for who they they are, not what they can do for her. Are you that woman? Then prove it! That's all.

Source: http://www.streetarticles.com/marriage/i-want-to-get-married-now-any-suggestions

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Kentucky claims top two spots, six total picks in NBA draft

? Best in the country and No. 1 and 2 in the NBA draft. The celebration goes on for Kentucky?s kids.

The Wildcats became the first school to have the top two picks and tied a record with six players taken overall Thursday night.

After the New Orleans Hornets made the long-expected selection of forward Anthony Davis with the first pick, Charlotte followed by taking fellow freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

?It?s crazy,? Davis said. ?Michael is a great player. We have two down and four more to go. Hopefully, all of them will go in the first round.?

They didn?t, the only disappointment for the Wildcats. They settled for four in the first round and a tie with North Carolina, which won the race to four picks ? all in the top 17 selections.

Harrison Barnes (No. 7, Golden State), Kendall Marshall (No. 13, Phoenix), John Henson (No. 14, Milwaukee) and Tyler Zeller (No. 17, Dallas) all went between Kidd-Gilchrist and the next Kentucky player, Terrence Jones at No. 18 to Houston.

Zeller?s rights were later traded to Cleveland for a package that included No. 24 pick Jared Cunningham of Oregon State.

Otherwise, it was the Wildcats? night, starting with a hug between Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist after the first selection.

?My arm was shaking and my hands were sweaty. Got up and hugged Michael, my best friend, wanted to hug him for a minute,? Davis said. ?When my name got called, wanted to make sure he stayed close.?

He did ? following Davis as the next player to climb onto the stage and shake Commissioner David Stern?s hand.

Kentucky got its fourth first-round pick at No. 29 with Marquis Teague, another freshman, who is headed to Chicago as a possible replacement for the injured Derrick Rose. Doron Lamb went 42nd to Milwaukee and Darius Miller was 46th to New Orleans.

Only UNLV in 1977 had six players drafted ? but none in the first round.

John Calipari has been criticized for recruiting ?one-and-done? players, they stay the required one year and leave, but he looked thrilled hugging his two stars at the start of the night.

It?s been a long time since a school made such an impact at the top of the draft.

UCLA had the Nos. 1 and 3 picks in 1969, when Milwaukee took Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ? then Lew Alcindor ? and Lucius Allen went third to the Seattle SuperSonics.

Davis will begin his pro career in the same city where he ended it with a national title. College basketball?s player of the year as a freshman was the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four despite shooting just 1 for 10 from the field in the championship game, grabbing 16 rebounds and blocking six shots in the victory over Kansas.

Davis slipped on a blue and purple Hornets hat above a conservative gray suit that took no attention away from basketball?s most famous eyebrow. Davis even attempted to capitalize on the attention his unibrow gets, trademarking ?Fear The Brow? and ?Raise The Brow? earlier this month.

On the floor, Davis has the agility of a guard ? and he was one only a few years ago.

The 6-foot-10 Davis averaged 14.2 points, 10.4 rebounds and 4.7 blocks, becoming a dominant defender after growing 7 inches from the start of his junior year of high school.

A season after the Hornets traded longtime star Chris Paul, Davis is ready to be their centerpiece, since playing for the Wildcats means he?s already accustomed to plenty of attention.

?Like I said, at Kentucky we had it all the time, especially the six who played, we had the spotlight all the time,? Davis said. ?I think it really prepared me.?

Charlotte, coming off a 7-59 season and the worst winning percentage in NBA history, had been open to moving the No. 2 pick if it found the right deal. Instead, Michael Jordan?s team went with Kidd-Gilchrist, whose selection by the Bobcats was loudly cheered, a sharp contrast from the boos Stern received when coming out to announce the picks.

The new Charlotte swingman played in high school at nearby St. Patrick?s in Elizabeth, N.J., and fans chanted ?MKG! MKG!? as he walked off the stage. Though he and Davis talked before the draft, they didn?t discuss the history the Wildcats were about to make.

?No. I was shocked at first,? Kidd-Gilchrist said. ?I was shocked. But no, we didn?t. We didn?t at all.?

Florida?s Bradley Beal went third to Washington, making it three SEC freshman in the first three picks. Cleveland followed with the surprisingly early pick of Syracuse sixth man Dion Waiters at No. 4.

Thomas Robinson of Kansas, who hoped to go second, fell to Sacramento at No. 5. Portland took Weber State?s Damian Lillard at No. 6 with its first of two lottery picks, and Barnes was taken seventh by Golden State.

After Washington?s Terrence Ross went to Toronto and Connecticut?s Andre Drummond to Detroit, the Hornets rounded out the top 10 by taking Duke guard Austin Rivers with a pick they acquired in the Paul trade. Rivers hugged his father, Boston coach Doc Rivers, who came to be with his family instead of with the Celtics, who owned two later first-round picks.

Davis was the only clear-cut pick entering the draft, and there were some early surprises. Players such as Waiters and Ross went higher than expected, while Robinson dropped to the Kings.

Houston took Jeremy Lamb of Connecticut at No. 12 with its first of three top-20 picks. But the Rockets, who also had the Nos. 16 and 18 picks, were hoping not to use all of them, instead packaging them for an established player after their pursuit of the Lakers? Pau Gasol fell through last year.

The Rockets tabbed Iowa State?s Royce White at No. 16 and Terrence Jones two picks later.

Jared Sullinger, once considered a top-10 pick, ended up in a draft free-fall over concerns with his back but was finally taken at No. 21 by Boston. The Celtics followed with Fab Melo of Syracuse, giving them two potential replacements if Kevin Garnett doesn?t return.

The NBA champion Miami Heat took forward Arnett Moultrie of Mississippi State at No. 27 with their first-round pick, but traded his rights to Philadelphia for the rights to LSU center Justin Hamilton and a future first-round pick.

Source: http://www2.kusports.com/news/2012/jun/29/kentucky-claims-top-two-spots-six-total-nba-draft/

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Friday, June 29, 2012

CoreLogic lifts 2012 financial outlook

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GOP wins contempt fight, but legal dispute looms

FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In email exchanges with subordinates in February and March 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder and the department's second-highest official expressed growing concern that something might have gone wrong in a federal gun-smuggling probe called Operation Fast and Furious. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In email exchanges with subordinates in February and March 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder and the department's second-highest official expressed growing concern that something might have gone wrong in a federal gun-smuggling probe called Operation Fast and Furious. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md., Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-NY, walk out of the Capitol, arm-in-arm, as members of the Congressional Black Caucus and many House Democrats protest the vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, Thursday, June 28, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From left, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md., Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Rep, Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, and many House Democrats walk out of the Capitol during the vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, Thursday, June 28, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., center, holds hands with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., next to Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., right, as House Democrats leave the Capitol in protest of a House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, Thursday, June 28, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2012, after members of Congress walked off the House floor in protest of a contempt of Congress vote for Attorney General Eric Holder. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

(AP) ? House Republicans won a historic political fight to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, but the GOP probably is still a long way from obtaining documents it wants in an investigation of a bungled Justice Department gun-tracking operation.

There are two routes to enforcing the contempt citations approved by the House on Thursday, a criminal prosecution and a civil lawsuit, although the White House on Friday virtually shut down the criminal path. The civil route through the courts would not be resolved anytime soon.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Justice Department going back to the administration of President Ronald Reagan has not pursued prosecutions in contempt cases involving assertions of executive privilege.

President Barack Obama invoked a broad form of the privilege to prevent sending department documents to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is leading the effort to get the material related to Operation Fast and Furious.

"This is pure politics," Carney said.

"Remarkably the chairman of the committee involved here has asserted that he has no evidence that the attorney general knew of Operation Fast and Furious or did anything but take the right action when he learned of it.

"No evidence, so if you have no evidence as he has stated now about the White House and the attorney general, what else could this be but politics?"

More than 100 Democrats walked out of the House chamber to boycott the first of two contempt votes, saying Republicans were more interested in shameful election-year politics than documents.

Republicans demanded the documents for an ongoing investigation, but their arguments focused more on the need for closure for the family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Two guns from the gun-tracking operation were found near his body after a shootout in Arizona.

Democrats promised closure as well, but said a less-partisan Republican investigation was the only way to get it.

Adding to the emotion of the day, the family of the slain agent issued a statement backing the Republicans.

"The Terry family takes no pleasure in the contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder. Such a vote should not have been necessary. The Justice Department should have released the documents related to Fast and Furious months ago," the statement said.

It all happened on the day that President Barack Obama's health care law survived in the Supreme Court, prompting some Democrats to speculate that the votes were scheduled to be overwhelmed by news stories about the ruling.

About five hours after the court ruled, with news sites flooded with information about the health care ruling, the House voted 255-67 to declare Holder in criminal contempt.

The matter goes to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who works under Holder.

A second vote of 258-95 held Holder in civil contempt and authorized the House to file a lawsuit.

In past cases, courts have been reluctant to settle disputes between the executive and legislative branches of government.

The issue became more complicated when Obama invoked a broad form of executive privilege, a legal position that is designed to keep private certain communications of executive branch agencies.

Issa's committee will consult with the House counsel's office about a court challenge to the administration's decision not to cooperate, spokesman Frederick Hill said.

The documents were written after Fast and Furious was shut down. The subpoena covered a 10-month period from February 2011, when the Justice Department denied that guns purchased in the U.S. were allowed to "walk" across the border into Mexico, to early December 2011 when the department acknowledged the earlier assertion was in error.

Republicans said the contempt citations were necessary because Holder refused to hand over documents that could explain why the Obama administration took 10 months to come clean about gun-walking. The operation identified more than 2,000 illicitly purchased weapons. Some 1,400 of them have yet to be recovered in the failed strategy to track the weapons to gun-running rings.

___

Associated Press writer Michael Kunzelman in New Orleans contributed to this report.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2012-06-29-Fast%20and%20Furious/id-b4f07cb212864109b3a604a95420fc73

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Yamaha Vocaloid on Miselu Neiro synth: exclusive hands-on at Google I/O 2012 (video)

Yamaha Vocaloid on Miselu Neiro synth: exclusive hands-on at Google I/O 2012

Did you enjoy our first look at the latest apps being showcased on Miselu's Neiro Android-powered synth here at Google I/O 2012? Want more? You've come to the right place. As promised here's an exclusive hands-on with Yamaha's Vocaloid app demoed by the man behind the technology himself -- video game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi. We got a chance to play with an early build of the software running on the same 3-octave prototype version of the synth we last saw at SXSW. The verdict? It works pretty well considering the pre-alpha status of the code. The app feature two modes of operation -- edit and play -- the former letting you type or speak text and map it to an existing melody and the latter allowing you to chose preset sentences and "sing" them with the keyboard. Pictures are worth a thousand words, so take a look at our gallery below and watch our hands-on video after the break.

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Zimbabwe 'witches' to have medical tests

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Apple Draws Blood With US Galaxy Tab Injunction [Apple]

The legal scuffling between Apple and Samsung had almost gotten boring; cases have been either summarily dismissed or been decided in far-flung parts of the globe. But last night, the hammer finally fell on Samsung here at home: no more Galaxy Tab 10.1s can be sold in the US, by court order. More »


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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

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Obama pledges to bring jobs back to US

President Barack Obama stops at The Varsity restaurant, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama stops at The Varsity restaurant, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama places an order at The Varsity restaurant, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama shakes hands with patrons during his visit to The Varsity restaurant, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama picks up a boy as he visits The Varsity restaurant, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Fulton County, Ga., Chairman John Eaves as Dekalb County, Ga., CEO Burrell Ellis and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed look on, upon Obama's arrival on Air Force One at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Paul Abell)

(AP) ? Sustaining his attacks on rival Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to bring back jobs that have moved overseas and portrayed his challenger as the type of wealthy investor who would pollute, outsource jobs and take down unions to maximize profits.

For the second day in a row, Obama targeted Romney, emphasizing that the contest between them is a choice between ideologies, not a referendum on his own performance.

"The question is not whether we need to put more folks back to work or whether we need to see the economy growing faster or whether we need to bring down our debt," he told a crowd of donors in Atlanta. "The question is how do we do it."

The president built upon his campaign's recent attacks Romney's business record. The Obama team says the private equity firm Romney formerly ran invested in companies that sent jobs to China and India.

"His basic vision is one in which if wealthy investors like him, folks at the very top are freed up from any kind of regulations, if they are maximizing their profits, even if they are polluting more, or offshoring jobs or avoiding taxes or busting union, whatever the strategy is ? if they are doing well, then everybody else is automatically doing well," Obama said.

The president spoke at a 500-person fundraising reception, with ticket prices started at $500 per person. He had additional fundraisers planned later Tuesday in Florida.

His remarks were on the second day of a fund raising trip that comes as Obama and his team raise alarms that Romney and his Republican allies will outspend him during the presidential campaign.

In an e-mail to supporters Tuesday, Obama bluntly stated: "I will be the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign, if things continue as they have so far."

The urgent tone is designed to spur more giving. Until last month, Obama had been by far the leading fundraiser in the presidential contest. But Romney, after securing the nomination, has consolidated his support.

Romney raised more than $76 million last month for his presidential campaign and for the GOP, compared to $60 million for Obama and the Democrats. Obama's advisers say they expect Republican-leaning super PACs to pull in $1.2 billion before the election, posing a big-money challenge for the president. Obama has more than $100 million in his campaign account, but Democratic super PACs have struggled to raise money, making it possible that an incumbent president will be outspent.

Obama has now raised the stakes, saying that even without the help of GOP-leaning super PACs, Romney could still outspend him.

Obama was to collect more than $2.3 million at fundraisers in Atlanta and Miami on Tuesday following top-dollar events Monday night in Boston.

"They will spend more money than we have ever seen in American history, and their message is very simple," Obama said Monday in Boston. "They will just tell you that the economy is not where it needs to be, the economy is bad, and it's all my fault."

Obama was holding the fundraisers at the start of a pivotal week for his campaign. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on Obama's health care overhaul law this week, passing judgment on the most significant piece of legislation during his presidency.

The president was holding two fundraisers in Atlanta, followed by two events in Miami Beach, including a performance by singer Marc Anthony.

Associated Press

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Q&A w/ Jad Abumrad, Co-Host Of WNYC's Radiolab - Phawker

BY JONATHAN VALANIA If you are not already down with the broadcast brilliance that is WNYC?s Radiolab you are doing your life wrong. Every week co-hosts Jad Abumrad [pictured, below left] and Robert Krulwich [pictured, below right] create cinema between your ears. Each episode explores a big-picture topic ? time, space, sleep, identity ? and comes at it from four or five different angles, co-mingling seemingly disconnected sub-narratives into a lattice of cognition, uncannily mirroring the through lines of consciousness itself. It?s a show about understanding, that, when it works, and it pretty much always does, triggers understanding. Which is a pretty neat trick when you think about it. Radiolab mixes together audio with the precise randomness of Jackson Pollock painting. Up close it may seem chaotic and random, but step back and the method of their madness becomes readily apparent. The resulting episodes? ? heard by more than a million people each week (and downloaded in podcast form by another 1.8 million)? ? are cinematic and? trippy, deeply intellectual and yet profoundly emotional. There was an episode about sperm where a young woman searches in vain to find the sperm donor fathered her that had me in tears. I suspect I?m not alone. That?s a pretty neat trick, too. Radio that makes you learn something and sometimes makes you cry may not sound like fun, but 2.8 million of us say otherwise. In advance of their appearance at the Academy of Music June 29th ? with special guests Demetri Martin, the Pilobolus dance troupe, and musician Thao Nguyen ? we got co-host Jad Abumrad on the horn to talk shop.

PHAWKER: Before we get started I would be remiss if I didn?t point out that your name is like the title of some great lost Captain Beefheart album title?

JAD ABUMRAD: (laughs) That?s good!? You know that will make one of our producers here, Tim Howard, very happy.? He?s a huge Captain Beefheart fan. I don?t know Captain Beefheart that well, but my name does have a weird, you know, if you say it a certain way it does rhyme.? It lends itself to all kinds of different band names and song titles.

PHAWKER: You?re of Lebanese decent.? Is that correct?

JAD ABUMRAD: Correct, yes.

PHAWKER: Speaking of music, you went to school and studied composition.? That was your plan originally?

JAD ABUMRAD: Yeah.? I studied at Oberlin College.? I was there for creative writing and music composition.? But really writing was something I added later.? I went into Oberlin and, pretty much since I was five, I had decided that I was going to be a composer and write music for films specifically.? I didn?t quite know what that meant but that was sort of the idea that I had gotten lodged in my head from forever ago.

PHAWKER: You did actually pursue that for a bit before kind of giving up on it.? Is that correct?

JAD ABUMRAD: Yeah, I mean I kind of half-assed it away.? Ok, so I moved to Tennessee, and this was Tennessee during the [first] Gulf War, so for Lebanese kid it was a little bit of a weird place.? I stayed home a lot and I had a four track cassette recorder and I would basically write strange kind of montage-y, weird surrealistic compositions that were kind of soundtracks for imaginary films.? When I went off to school, I pretty much thought I would work toward doing soundtracks for real films.? I don?t know, school was sort of an up and down experience but I did come out and work on a bunch of student films, and one feature and a bunch of dance pieces and theatrical things.? You know I really enjoyed it.? It was great actually but I sort of encountered two problems; one of which was it was really hard to make any money doing that and also you get into a sort of mode that?s almost like a graphic designer where somebody asks you to solve a problem with music, and at that point you?re not really writing music, you?re basically making widgets that fit a certain need.? Actually I appreciated it.? It?s a really good skill but I found out I just couldn?t do it.? I would always write music that was interesting but it just kind of always became the same.? It was never really the right style to meet the demands of the people I was working for.? So I just wasn?t very good, to put it simply.? I somehow couldn?t work in that mode at that time.? At the same time I went to school for writing and I was always trying to be a writer, you know, freelancing some essays and journalistic pieces here and there.? And that wasn?t really going to well either.? At a certain point I quit my day job, which was sort of an internet thing at that point and, I remember having this conversation with my then-girlfriend, now-wife, and she was like, ?well what do you want to do?? What?s the intersection of these two things that you like to do??? It occurred to both of us that radio is kind of both.? I didn?t really listen to the radio but, it seemed like this abstract place where the two meet so I went off to volunteer for a radio station and, I don?t know how many years into the future, I?m now in this weird place that is actually kind of like a scoring film but somehow in disguise.? You know, it?s like I?m a journalist first but quietly still a musician, still a film scorer.? It?s somehow come back around for me, which has been interesting.

PHAWKER: Did you have some sort of special relationship with the radio when you were growing up?? Like staying up all night listening to Wolfman Jack on border radio on a little transistor radio tucked under your pillow so your parents don?t hear it, kind of a thing?

JAD ABUMRAD: No.? I did not.? I think I kind of had this clich?d thing of listening to NPR in the back of the car on the way to school and kind of hating it like a lot of kids, I think.? The voices are so modulated and snoozy.? But then I do remember actually driving off to Oberlin and we were driving through some dark, open part of Ohio that was just flat and unpopulated and I remember this.? Do you remember that radio series Lost & Found Sound?

PHAWKER: Yes.

JAD ABUMRAD: I think one of their stories came on about Tennessee Williams.? I could be completely wrong about this but this is how I remember it.? This story about Tennessee Williams and this penny arcade.? I think Tennessee Williams had been at this penny arcade and made a vinyl pressing?? I guess you could do this like a hundred years ago or however long ago, and you could record something direct to vinyl and take it, and somebody found in their basement this old vinyl pressing of Tennessee Williams saying something.? The whole piece was kind of built around this lost voice and the way it was edited there were four for five voices talking at once.? They were all kind of like intercut in this counterpoint and you heard this beautiful, lost, ghostly audio and there was music and the whole thing kind of felt like music.? It kind of moved almost like 16th century counterpoint, the way everything bobbed and weaved and first one voice would lead and then you would hear four or five voices together.? I loved it.? It was kind of like an on the way to school thing like, I didn?t know you could do that on the radio and in that moment I my idea of what was possible on public radio, or radio at all, was totally transformed.?? When I was sitting on the bed with my girlfriend, my wife, and having that conversation I thought back to that moment in the car and said maybe I could do stories like that.

PHAWKER: It sounds like a radio show I might have heard on public radio as of late.? So out of the blue you just volunteer at WBAI?? I?m not familiar with it is so I?m guessing it?s a tiny AM radio station in New York?? Is that correct?

JAD ABUMRAD: It?s FM actually.? I think 99.5 is the frequency.? If you ask people of [Radiolab co-host] Robert [Krulwich]?s generation about WBAI they?ll tell you that was MTV of their generation.? It was like a hugely influential very well-listened-to radio station.? But when I got there it was way past its heyday and it was a bunch of dysfunctional lefties openly fighting on air.? The news department was a shambles.? There were these two completely overworked news directors.? One of them promptly left and had a sex change the moment I got there.? It was like this ragtag motley crew and they were so in need of people to help that I basically walked in and I think I was on the air that day.? And I didn?t know shit!? I knew nothing!? I barely knew how to use the equipment.? I had no concept of what it meant to be a journalist or a reporter or anything, but I just happened to walk in at a time when mic access was easy.? They were like, ?You!? Please help us!? Go cover this protest!?? So I would go out and do these obscenely long, unlistenable twelve minute pieces about whatever the protest of the moment was.? I did that for about a year and started to freelance for NPR here and there, and I did a bunch of shows here at WNYC?s On The Media and ultimately Studio 360, I did something for them and I just kind of began to sort of be around a lot.? I was working enough where I was just kind of in the building and one day in 2002, I can?t really remember the exact date, I happened to be with the program director at the time who basically had this idea to make a thing called Radio lab and to put it on really late Sunday night. I had no idea how a host was supposed to sound at that point and I had this experience again of just being thrown in way over your head, and for a couple of years filling three hours a week by myself.? I was begging people for their old documentaries and various things and in the gaps between the documentaries maybe I?d do a short little piece with some sound design but it was really just me ad hoc for a long time.

PHAWKER: So, somewhere along the way you become interested in sound design and how to apply that to radio.? Can we talk a little bit about that?? I know you?ve expressed your admiration for Walter Murch and other people that work with film.? Can you talk a little bit about that?

JAD ABUMRAD:? I remember reading Walter Murch and he had this way of thinking about the relationship between story and sound, between picture and sound, that for the first time gave me a sense of how to explain what I was doing and how to think about it in one kind of rigorous way.? He has beautiful schematics about that weird mystery space between words and music and the different kinds of sounds that can operate in a movie.? It had never occurred to me that sound exists on this spectrum and that sound design is in some sense not separate to the story.? So in a sense, he just provided a way of thinking about it that was holistic.? I picked up four of his books and just read them in like one sitting trying to learn how to apply this thing.? People would hear it and they would either really like what I was doing or they would find it just aggravating.

PHAWKER:? I was going to ask you that.? Initially, did a lot of radio veterans tell you that you can?t do that on the radio, you are going to freak people out?

JAD ABUMRAD:? Oh yes, I got tons of that.? I mean, yes and no.? I mean no because no one was listening.? I mean nobody was listening to that early stuff.? But the people that did really just, I don?t know.? It was really hard for me to know initially what made something good and what made something gratuitous.? You know, that?s essentially one of the key questions that I figured out over the last how many years, and Walter Murch was part of that.? He was like, ?this is how sound works in a story and this is how visual it is, and this is when you apply it and this is when you don?t.?

PHAWKER: And Walter Murch, for the benefit of our readers who might not be aware, is the guy who?s done sound? design on a number of legendary films starting with The Conversation?

JAD ABUMRAD: The Conversation, the Godfather films?

PHAWKER: Apocalypse Now, which has incredible sound ? even all these years later it still sounds pretty mind blowing.? Especially that scene where they?re by the bridge that?s blown up and they?re in the trenches and Lance is on acid and there?s all this screaming and gunfire and Hendrix playing on a? little cassette player.? I don?t know when was the last time you saw [Francis Ford Coppola's] The Conversation.? I saw it again recently and it?s still a mind blowing film audio wise.? It still holds up.

JAD ABUMRAD: It?s amazing.? He tells a really amazing story about how one of the real discoveries in The Conversation was, you know, how the plot pivots on that last bit of audio.? I forget what the phrase is.? Do you remember what the phrase is?

PHAWKER: I think it was: ?He?d kill us if he had the chance?

JAD ABUMRAD:? Right. You hear it early in the film and you don?t know what I means and later in the film they realize that if you change the emphasis of that one word a completely different meaning comes out, and that was the identity of the killer, or something.? I don?t quite remember the exact plot, but that was a discovery he made in mid-editing and it?s all about sound.? In fact, the movie was all about sound.? But it?s just a beautiful movie.? It has a sense of dread that creeps over that movie the entire time.

PHAWKER: You guys did an early piece for This American Life that they thought was so awful they refused to broadcast it.? Is that true?

JAD ABUMRAD: Yes. I had had this little piece of tape from an old picture book, is that the right word?? One of those books that have sound and you?d hear a little beep every time you were supposed to turn the page from the 1950s and it was about how to properly salute the flag on Flag Day.? It was just kind of one of these hilarious kitschy pieces of tape so we kind of, well, he started improvising around it and it ended up being this crazy, weird, nonsensical four minute piece where Robert [Krulwich] played like fourteen different characters and dramatized every little page of this flip book.? It?s just weird.? It has no reason for being.? I don?t know why we made it but we just thought it was hilarious.? We sent it to This American Life and they were just like, flummoxed by it.? Apparently they had many meetings about how much they hated it. So it was an early failure.? Robert thought it was hilarious, he?s like, ?they just don?t know what they?re talking about.?? But I was so new at that point and This American Life was the pinnacle of what you could do on the radio so I was mortified.

PHAWKER:? I wanted to ask you about a pretty extraordinary episode called ?Lost and Found.?? If you could summarize this quickly for the readers, I know it?s kind of complicated, and I just wanted to ask you where you came across the story and how it wound up on the air.? So let?s just start at the beginning.? Explain the premise of it.

JAD ABUMRAD: The show grew out of a basic question of, like, when a body moves through space, like when you go to your friend?s house and you ask him where the bathroom is, and you walk to the bathroom and then you leave the bathroom and then you somehow are able to find yourself back in the living room, in a place you?ve never been before.? If you think about what your brain is doing right there it?s basically creating a geographic mental map and then locating it from different points of view and guiding you through it in various ways.? It?s kind of an amazing magic trick.? So the initial question that got us onto that show was like, how does that work in terms of knowing where you are.? Actually physically where you are at any moment.? How does the brain do that?? What kinds of stories can we tell that can explore that question.? About midway through making that show, we had some really interesting stories, it all clustered around that sort of specific mundane question of just orientation ? geographic orientation.? But one of the silent little keys in that show was about being lost, you know, which is not a fun feeling.? It?s about the darkness of not knowing where you are which is a very emotional kind of orientation rather than just a physical one.

So we asked ourselves, what kind of stories can we tell that get at that different way of talking about being unrooted and lost.? And mysteriously, right at that moment, a friend of Robert?s had a neighbor who was going through some pretty crazy shit and it was like, hey, you need to check this out, this couple that I know next door to me.? This girl just got into a really serious accident.? She got hit by a truck while she was on her bike and she?s in a coma and, I think she was about to come out or she had just emerged from the coma at that point and he sort let us in on it.? You know, it?s just one of those weird moments of serendipity that happens once every 10 years in this job.? We went to interview the guy, the boyfriend, who was in the middle of this traumatic experience with his girlfriend who he had just met nine months ago and fallen deeply, madly in love with in this fairy tale, love-at-first-sight kind of way, but still it was only nine months old.? Suddenly, she?s hit by a truck.? Basically it looks like she?s going to die or be a vegetable, and he?s sitting there talking to us and we were just somehow stunned by his quiet fierceness.? So Robert and I were like, wow, this kid is like 20 years old and I?ve never seen somebody so together in the face of such a terrible, terrible thing.? I guess she had just woken up [from a coma] at this point.? And then he proceeds to tell us ?hey, by the way, that moment she woke up, I recorded it on my cell phone.? So he hands us this cell phone that basically has this series of audio files of him doing the kind of Helen Keller thing where he spells words on her hand and she responds, and for the first time he knows she?s in there.? I get chills even thinking about it now.? It?s just some of the most spooky, beautiful pieces of tape you?ve ever heard.? And that?s the kind of thing that?s never going to happen again for us.

PHAWKER: That?s amazing.

JAD ABUMRAD: Yeah.? It was just a fluke.? We had been looking high and low.? We had gone through maybe twenty different stories and killed them and we just couldn?t find the right match and then that one wandered in in the most fluky sort of way and with characters that are heartbreakingly strong.? We stayed in touch with that family because they?re amazing.? They?re just such fine people.

PHAWKER: They?re still together, correct?

JAD ABUMRAD: Oh yeah.? We just talked to Alan about two weeks ago.? Emilie had been in rehab and then she graduated from that, and had gone through a program where she learned to walk again and ride horses even.? She?s still blind, and can?t really hear but she just graduated and both she and Alan gave the commencement speech. He?s very protective of her.? He doesn?t want the story to overshadow the things she will do.? We?ve got a lot of requests from movie people to make this into a movie but he?s always like, ?no, nope.? I don?t want her to have to live in the shadow of the story.?? He?s an extraordinary guy and her recovery is pretty amazing.

PHAWKER:? Well, that?s about as happy an ending from that situation as you could ask for.? She?s still compromised physically in some ways, yes?

JAD ABUMRAD: The last I saw her, which was six months ago she had some pretty heavy braces on her legs? but she was walking and they were dancing.? She can?t really hear or see.? She can hear a tiny bit but she?s pretty much completely blind.? But I think mentally she?s all there.

PHAWKER:? Wow.? I?m really looking forward to the live show!? Keep up the good work and thank you very much for taking the time to do this.

JAD ABUMRAD: Thanks Jon.? This was a very fun conversation.? Come and see us after the show.

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What the Failure of Rio+20 Means For the Climate

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What the Failure of Rio+20 Means For the Climate
Expectations were extremely modest for the Rio+20 Earth Summit that ended last week -- and the best thing that might be said about the conference is that it managed to clear that very low bar.

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