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@Gawker: Republicans boycotting pizza shop owned by man who hugged Obama http://t.co/bIwMtRbc
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Today’s Influence Ads: Hustler Magazine Wants Romney’s Tax Returns
Hustler Magazine has a new ad today announcing that the publication and Larry Flynt are offering a cash reward of up to $1 million for information about Mitt Romney‘s unreleased tax returns, bank accounts and business partnerships. The magazine claims it wants to publish the information.
The International Franchise Association‘s new ad calls for extending all current tax rates in order to promote job growth; the Bipartisan Policy Center‘s new ad warns against automatic across-the-board cuts and tax rate increases as a way to deal with America’s long-term fiscal situation; and the Renewable Fuels Association‘s new ad cautions against waiving the Renewable Fuel Standard, claiming that doing so could slightly decrease grocery bills but would increase the amount Americans spend on gasoline.
American College of Rheumatology, American Society for Radiation Oncology, CIT Group, Univision, WellPoint, Women in Government Relations and Zurich also have new ads out today.
Those with continuing ads, per Kantar Media’s Washington Eye, include: Altria, American Society For Radiation Oncology, Bell Helicopter & Boeing, BP, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, McDonald’s, Musicians On Call, Northrop Grumman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Ogilvy and WTOP.
via Homepage http://influencealley.nationaljournal.com/2012/09/todays-influence-ads-hustler-m.php
George Will Is Definitely Not Ready for Some Football
George Will is a longtime hater of liberalism, and a longtime hater of football, so it makes sense that he would try to align his hatreds and write a column arguing that college football is an expression of liberalism:
College football became a national phenomenon because it supposedly served the values of progressivism, in two ways. It exemplified specialization, expertise and scientific management. And it would reconcile the public to the transformation of universities, especially public universities, into something progressivism desired but the public found alien. Replicating industrialism’s division of labor, universities introduced the fragmentation of the old curriculum of moral instruction into increasingly specialized and arcane disciplines. These included the recently founded social sciences — economics, sociology, political science — that were supposed to supply progressive governments with the expertise to manage the complexities of the modern economy and the simplicities of the uninstructed masses.
Football taught the progressive virtue of subordinating the individual to the collectivity. Inevitably, this led to the cult of one individual, the coach.
One flaw with Will’s thesis here is that the regions of the country most enamored with college football are least enamored with liberalism. College football is most popular in the Deep South, followed by the Midwest, followed by the West Coast, followed by the Northeast. The popularity of liberalism by region is that list in reverse.
The obvious solution here is for George Will to tour the Deep South explaining to rabid football fans that they have been taken in by the sinister hand of progressivism.
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Flying Putin, Fired Editor
How Putin’s latest PR stunt cost me my job.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/flying-putin-fired-editor/
High-resolution image of Berlin at night facilitates light pollution research
Researchers from Berlin have published an 878 megapixel aerial mosaic image of Berlin at night. With one pixel per square meter, the resulting map is the highest resolution image ever published of a city at night. The ecologists used the image to measure how much light comes from different types of land use areas, such as streets or parks.
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Taliban Threaten to Kill Britain’s Prince Harry
Just days after the British Crown announced that Prince Harry was headed to Afghanistan to man helicopters for four months, the Taliban announced that it would do everything in its power to kidnap or kill the 27-year-old prince, Reuters reports.
“We are using all our strength to get rid of him, either by killing or kidnapping,†Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters.
Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, known as “Captain Wales†in the military, is stationed in the volatile Helmand province, at the forefront of NATO’s fight against the Taliban.
via Homepage http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/taliban-threaten-to-kill-britain-s-prince-harry-20120910
Study: Red Wine Is Healthier When It’s Non-Alcoholic (Sorry)
Research suggests the alcohol in red wine may actually be impeding the antioxidants’ cardiovascular benefits. So, drink grape juice?
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PROBLEM: Drinking red wine in moderation has been shown to ward off heart disease, and many have latched onto the research as an excuse to indulge a little bit, or a lot. But where does alcohol factor into the benefits?
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METHODOLOGY: Researchers at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona instructed 67 men to drink either 10 ounces of red wine, 10 ounces of non-alcoholic red wine, or 3 ounces of gin every day for four weeks. At the end of the four weeks, each subject rotated to a different drink and repeated the process before switching again such that by the end of the study, all 67 men had been observed consuming all three drinks. Each study participant had either diabetes or at least three of the following risk factors for heart disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, a family history of heart disease, excessive weight or obesity, or smoking.
RESULTS: The non-alcoholic red wine was associated with a significant decrease in blood pressure, lowering heart disease risk by 14 percent and the risk of stroke by 20 percent. The alcoholic red wine, however, did not appear to have such effects.
CONCLUSION: Even though alcoholic and non-alcoholic red wine contain the same amount of heart-healthy antioxidants, the alcohol may be blocking the polyphenols from doing their protective work. Non-alcoholic red wine may therefore be more effective at protecting the heart.Â
IMPLICATION: Pairing antioxidants with alcohol appears counterproductive. If you were drinking red wine for the cardiovascular benefits, consider switching to non-alcoholic wine, or any of the multitude of other ways to get antioxidants.
SOURCE: The full study, “Dealcoholized Red Wine Decreases Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure and Increases Plasma Nitric Oxide,” is published in the journal Circulation Research.
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via Health : The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/study-red-wine-is-healthier-when-its-non-alcoholic-sorry/262128/
J.K. Rowling to Make ‘a Slew of Promotional TV Stops’
Despite planning a laid-back marketing campaign for her upcoming novel for adults, Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling will have make “a slew of promotional TV stops,†including visits to The Daily Show and Good Morning America.
An AdAge article took a look at Rowling’s press plans for The Casual Vacancy. The 512-page novel will cost $35, the large-print hardcover will cost $39.00 and the eBook will cost $19.99. Publication is set for September 27, 2012.
The article included a quote from Barnes & Noble marketing vice president Patricia Bostelman: “She had very strong opinions about how she wanted this book marketed … She’s very committed to being received as an adult-fiction writer, and she wants the work to stand alone, apart from her reputation and success.â€
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