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Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.
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Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression.
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Some Republicans are softening to the idea of raising tax rates on top earners in exchange for discussing entitlement reform during so-called fiscal cliff talks, according to GOP Senator Bob Corker.
“There’s a growing group of folks looking at this and realizing that we don’t have a lot of cards,” the Tennessee Republican said Sunday on the “Fox News Sunday” program. “I actually am beginning to believe that is the best route for us to take” to achieve cuts in entitlement spending, he said.
Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, appearing on the same program, said Corker’s comments were encouraging. He said the same sentiment is necessary from House Speaker John Boehner before there can be any movement in the talks, aimed at averting automatic spending cuts and tax increases scheduled for January.
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In USA TODAY’s Innovators and Icons series, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, opens up about what he’s done to keep his companies open, discusses the future of the automobile, the environment and a mission to Mars
HAWTHORNE, Calif. — If endless hours are a requirement to become a business icon, Elon Musk has put in his share.
Nearly every week, he shuttles 400 miles between electric-car maker Tesla Motors in the San Francisco Bay Area and rocket maker Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in this Los Angeles suburb. He is CEO of both.
His bruising seven-days-a-week schedule means heading for Tesla on Monday nights, returning on Thursdays to run SpaceX — as the rocket business is commonly called — then often spending the weekends at Tesla. All the while, he juggles responsibilities that go with being father to five young boys.
Musk looks the part of a jet-setter — he showed up to the interview at SpaceX in a sleek black leather jacket — but he talks like the lifestyle is grinding him down.
“I definitely would not recommend it. It is not the path to a happier life,” he says.
As fatiguing as his life may be, Musk is establishing himself as one of America’s pre-eminent high-tech entrepreneurs. Sure, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and Sergey Brin and Larry Page introduced the world to Google. But Musk not only co-founded online payment service PayPal, he doubled, then tripled down by taking on two entirely unrelated, high-risk tech businesses.
His bet is starting to pay off. SpaceX grabbed the nation’s attention last year when its Dragon spacecraft became the flying delivery van to the International Space Station. It dropped off 1,673 pounds of supplies then splashed down in the Pacific. A second mission last month proved just as successful.
Musk says SpaceX has been profitable for five years, serving not only the government but myriad businesses that need its Falcon 9 rocket to deliver satellites into orbit.
Then there is Tesla. Musk is one of five co-founders in the company and later took control as it developed a small plug-in sports car. He ordered a raft of changes to the Tesla Roadster that slowed the path to market. But the company ended up selling 2,500, making it one of the first big sellers of plug-in cars.
The company’s next and only current product, the Model S luxury sedan, marked a huge step up in size and sophistication when it hit the market last year. The performance version can jet from zero to 60 miles per hour in 4.2 seconds and is EPA-rated for a range of up to 265 miles per charge, the most of any plug-in electric. Motor Trend made the Model S its coveted Car of the Year, lauding its quickness with looks that will wow valets at swanky hotels “like a supermodel working a Paris catwalk.”
Despite a starting price of $ 70,890 for the cheapest version with shipping, Tesla has boosted production. It made more than 4,750 of the sedans at the former Toyota-General Motors factory in Fremont, Calif., in the first quarter, and Musk is predicting Tesla’s first quarterly profit. The company says it plans to repay its $ 465 million federal loan early.
If you’re expecting Musk, 41, to take a bow, think again.
SpaceX is “doing pretty well these days,” but Tesla is “a couple of years behind that,” with the goal of making it profitable as a top priority, he says. A gull-winged electric SUV called the Model X is next up and a smaller, cheaper sedan is another three or four years out. So it’s easy to see why he might seem distracted.
Just keeping the issues he needs to track — he calls them “mental balls in the air” — with both companies would be enough to overwhelm many executives. But Musk says he is able to keep the two separate, although he occasionally needs to be reminded what company he will be talking about at a meeting. He says he can manage the occasional crisis at one of his companies, but when it is two at the same time, “then it is really difficult.”
It has happened. No year will beat 2008 for sheer difficulty, Musk says. SpaceX had seen three failed rocket launches. “If there had been a fourth failure, the company would have died,” he says. (It succeeded.) At Tesla, a round of financing fell apart as lenders scattered as the nation’s financial crisis heightened. Unable to pay the rent or make payroll without the new financing, Tesla’s future came down to the wire. Musk says at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve — “the last hour of the last day” when it could close — the money came through.
Now, having developed what he terms “a high pain threshold” when it comes to business, Musk is able to once again look longer term. He not only makes electric cars but crusades for their place on the highway. The nation, he believes, needs to stop denying that global warming exists and develop more sustainable transportation.
“We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere … can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe,” Musk says.
Besides running the two companies, Musk is chairman of Solar City, a solar-power provider to residential and business customers.
Musk, born in South Africa and educated at the University of Pennsylvania, cares as well about immigration reform. Preventing talented immigrants from taking a chance in America only means more of them will set up shop in their home countries, he says.
Musk is living proof of the value of immigration. Despite finding multiple ways to invest the fortune he made out of PayPal, Musk still is worth $ 2.7 billion, according to Forbes magazine. He’s wealthy enough that he held a press conference this month and personally vowed to back the resale value of Tesla cars — even if the company fails.
He doesn’t seem to mind putting his own money at risk. He says he would feel terrible if one of his companies died — and he still had cash in the bank that could have saved it.
These days, he allows that he occasionally thinks about creating new companies, but that he knows his limits. In fact, he set a goal for himself this year: to have more fun and less stress. “I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view,” Musk says.
Asked what he has left to accomplish in life, the answer certainly is fun: He’d like to visit Mars.
“I think it would be a great adventure,” he says.
Then again, at least when it comes to business, Musk has had no shortage of adventures.
They did it while Beyoncé mesmerized the audience during halftime at the Super Bowl. They did it during the blackout at the Superdome. Users of social media — mostly on mobile devices — generated a record-setting number of posts, “likes,” check-ins, mentions and comments about the big game, say two firms that monitor social-media activity.
Social-media interactions on Sunday night set a record for a Super Bowl — and for any major televised event, according to New York-based Trendrr, which followed social-media activity related to the big game on Twitter, public Facebook profiles and the social applications GetGlue and Viggle.
In all, there were 47.67 million instances of social-media engagement during the game between the winning Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers, Trendrr reports.
Last year, the Super Bowl scored 17.4 million interactions on social media vs. 3.1 million in 2011, according to Trendrr.
Even other major events pale compared to Sunday night. The April 2011 royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton racked up 5.6 million instances of social-media activity, while last year’s Grammy Awardsgenerated 17.1 million, according to Trendrr.
Bluefin Labs, a firm in Cambridge, Mass., that analyzes social media related to TV, also reports the game was at the center of a record. The company counted 30.6 million social-media comments related to the game — 27.7 million via Twitter and 2.8 million on Facebook.
The firm says that compares with 28.3 million comments for election night coverage in November, 13 million comments for the 2012 Grammy Awards, 12.8 million comments for the MTV Video Music Awards and 12.2 million for the second presidential debate last year.
Most of the engagement happened via mobile, according to Trendrr numbers. People shared mostly by iPhone and Android smartphones and tablets. Overall, mobile communication accounted for 88% of the stream of chatter, up from 67% last year, Trendrr says. And though neither New York nor Los Angeles played in or hosted the Super Bowl — which took place in New Orleans — both cities led in the amount of social-media activity, Trendrr reports. They were followed by Baltimore and the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose region, according to Trendrr.
All that traffic hinted at a likely win for the Ravens even before the team claimed victory.
The volume of social-media posts involving the Ravens was about 3.7 million, while the 49ers generated about 3.1 million, according to Crimson Hexagon, a Boston-based firm that analyzes social media.
The Ravens also generated more positive comments on Twitter than the 49ers. And tweets about Ray Lewis, the Baltimore linebacker who played his last game Sunday night, totaled about 1.2 million, or about a third as many as the team generated overall.
Broken down, 61% of posts about the 49ers were enthusiastic compared with 90% of posts about the Ravens, Crimson Hexagon says.
Of the comments about Lewis, 67% were positive. Those focused on his character, talent and/or career. Another 32% were negative, and some of those focused on his guilty plea for obstruction of justice in the 2000 murders of a man and his girlfriend.
Over the past few days since the death of Aaron Swartz, friends, supporters and strangers have came forward to pay their respects and share in the grief and confusion that this horrible situation has created.
The first thought that i had in my mind was basically that one way or another, those bastard slave masters that call themselves government are directly responsible for this.
Whether he was “suicided” like Gary Webb or others, or if he was ending his life to avoid the worse than death torture that is the prison system, Aaron Swartz was murdered by the government. They took another beautiful mind away from our species, another wonderful human being who was playing a major role in creating a better world.
In all seriousness Aaron Swartz should have Obama’s peace prize (if we were pretending that those things mattered), but instead he was treated like a criminal. It is a truly horrific thing that the best our species has to offer is forced onto the fringes of society, while the worst among us are thrust into positions of comfort and respect.
Aaron’s family has also been very open with the press about their feelings on the subject, saying that the government is directly responsible for their sons death, one way or another.
“Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet genius, was eulogized on Tuesday as a person who wanted to make the world better but was hounded into killing himself by harsh government policies.
Swartz was “killed by the government,” his father, Robert Swartz, said at the service at Central Avenue Synagogue in Highland Park, Ill. He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles,” he said.
His family deserves an incredible amount of respect for having the courage to speak up like their son would have wanted them to, during such a difficult time. While strangers like myself are mourning the loss of a colleague and mentor, his family has very much lost a piece of themselves and its difficult for any of us to imagine what they must be going through.
For anyone who is dealing with the loss, friend, family or supporter, we can at least find comfort in the fact that Aaron achieved more in his 26 years than most of us would in our entire lives, and the things that he has accomplished are actually things that you can “take with you” to the grave.
Respect and love to Aaron Swartz as well as his family and friends.
J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance, a staff writer and reporter for The Intel Hub and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.
You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com
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7:24PM EST December 5. 2012 – Exchange traded technology fund investors have a new risk to ponder: the Apple slice.
Apple, once the stock market’s darling, fell 6.4% Wednesday to $ 538.79. The electronics maker is down 24% from its September high.
If you bought a technology ETF to diversify your tech holdings, though, you may have noticed that Apple’s woes are yours as well. And that’s because Apple is such a big slice of the largest technology ETFs.
Powershares QQQ, Qubes, as they’re called, have 18.8% of their assets in Apple, according to Morningstar. QQQ fell 1.1% Wednesday.
Technology Sector Select SPDR (XLK) has 19.2% of its assets in Apple. It fell 1.0% Wednesday.
Vanguard Information Technology ETF (VGT), 20.5% in Apple. It fell 1.0% Wednesday.
IShares Dow Jones U.S. Techology (IYW) has 22.9% in Apple. The fund fell 1.3% Wednesday.
These funds’ huge positions in Apple point to a problem with indexing in a stock sector, especially when the index gives greater weight to stocks with larger market capitalization — stock price multiplied by shares outstanding.
Even after Wednesday, Apple is a behemoth, weighing in at $ 506.8 billion. Rival Microsoft, the second-largest holding in QQQ, has a market cap of $ 224.5 billion. The tech sector is so top-heavy by cap weighting that the five largest members of the Nasdaq 100 index are 41.5% of the index. But if you buy a tech ETF, your biggest slice by far is Apple.
MIT’s “The Future of Natural Gas” report, covered by many mainstream media outlets without any effort to question who bankrolled it, was funded chiefly by the American Clean Skies Foundation, a front group for the shale gas industry’s number two domestic producer, Chesapeake Energy. That report concluded that gas is a “bridge fuel” for a renewable energy future and said that shale gas exports were in the best economic interests of the United States, which should “not erect barriers to natural gas imports and exports.”
Moniz earned over $ 300,000 in financial compensation in his two years sitting on the Board at ICF, plus whatever money his 10,000+ shares of ICF stock have earned him.
Moniz’s American Petroleum Institute Ties to Shale Gas Export Advocacy
Another controversial oil and gas industry export plan exists for fracking.
In a Feb. 2013 follow-up report the American Petroleum Institute (API) sang the same tune, agreeing with the NERA assessment. In actuality, that report was not even done by API itself, but instead was outsourced to ICF International.
If he receives congressional confirmation, this means Moniz will jump ship from his ICF Board of Directors position and have the final say over DOE LNG export decisions.
While heading the MIT Energy Initiative, Moniz also worked alongside John Deutch.
On top of her public sector appointments, McGinty is also an Operating Partner alongside former PA Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell at Element Partners, a Philadelphia, PA-based firm that has capital investments in several firms operating in the Marcellus Shale. McGinty also serves on the Board of Directors of NRG Energy, an electric utility that owns natural gas-fired power plants (and coal and nuclear ones, too – aka “all of the above”) throughout the U.S.
Obama’s Binders Full of Conflicts-of-Interest on LNG Exports
In other words, the gas industry isn’t joking about its desires to export shale gas to the global market, despite paying homage to the necessity to frack for “national security” and domestic energy purposes. Public Accountability Initiative‘s (PAI) report on Moniz, Deutch and the MIT Energy Initiative at-large titled, “Industry Partner or Industry Puppet?” raises the logical take-away question. It’s one that at this point seems more rhetorical than Socratic in nature: “Will a similar team be installed at the Department of Energy under Moniz, and will it continue this advocacy for LNG exports from a new position of influence?” Tyson Slocum, head of the Energy Program at Public Citizen is also alarmed by these developments, and answered PAI’s question bluntly.
“Moniz represents the status-quo, all of the above fossil energy approach at a time when we can’t afford the status quo,” Slocum told DeSmogBlog.
A solid majority of American voters think marijuana should be legal according to new Public Policy Polling. The recent poll found that 58 percent of voters think marijuana should be legal, while 39 percent think it should remain illegal. Most of those who oppose marijuana legalization feel strongly that it should remain illegal, while support for legalization is fairly evenly split between those who feel strongly about it and those who don’t. The poll also found that 50 percent of voters think marijuana will be legal in the United States within the next 10 years, while only 37 percent think it will not be legal.
Democrats and Independents overwhelmingly believe marijuana should be legalized, but a majority of Republicans oppose the policy change. There is also a significant generational divide when it comes to opinions about legalization. Voters under thirty are most likely to feel strongly that marijuana should be legal while senior citizens tend to feel strongly that it should remain illegal. Interestingly, young voters are actually the most pessimistic about legalization future. The poll found 52 percent think it will not be fully legalized in the next ten years, while 48 percent think it will. On the other hand, 51 percent of voters over the age of 65 think legalization will happen in the next decade, while just 32 percent think it won’t.
While this poll shows some of the highest levels of support for marijuana legalization of any recent national survey, it should be noted that PPP’s polling on marijuana legalization initiatives has proven to be remarkably accurate in the past two election cycles. In 2010, PPP very accurately predicted the overall yes vote for Proposition 19 in California. Similarly, PPP’s final polling in Colorado and Washington State this cycle very closely matched the final results.
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