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As if MCU fans needed any more reasons to get pumped up for Avengers: Endgame, the folks at Marvel dropped another hype-inducing trailer. The latest trailer, titled To the End, takes viewers through the MCU's history, from Iron Man all the way to End Game. While we've seen most of the footage before, and it doesn't reveal much about Endgame, it's still a blast to watch.
We are now ten years deep into the MCU's mythology and its characters, stories, and imagery have become more than pop culture staples: they're iconic. This tour down nostalgia-alley carries a lot of emotional weight. And when you factor in that we may be seeing these characters together for the last time, the trailer becomes even more powerful.
Watching ten years crammed into two-minutes lets the trailer's editors cherry-pick the MCU's juiciest images. Even a film I'm lukewarm on like Doctor Strange looks thrilling and badass when thrown into To the End's action-packed montage. Take a look.
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To the End is a beautiful reminder of how far the MCU has come in ten years, and it also leaves me excited for what comes next.


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Joe Posnanski on Chief Wahoo
Joe Posnanski makes the case for the Cleveland Spiders.
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So I wrote a column this week on why the Cleveland Indians should scrap their mascot, Chief Wahoo, and call themselves the Spiders. It was inspired in no small way by Joe Posnanski's 2007 blog post urging the Indians to do the same.
Unfortunately, that post has been nearly archived out of existence, thanks to Joe's moving around to several different publications, including Sports Illustrated -- and that's a shame, because it really is a great,heartfelt plea to a city and team to do the right thing.
So I'm reposting it here in the Bloggery so that more people can read it, and hopefully help preserve the piece. I'm sure if Joe knew his post was archived away, and knew that people still cared about it, he wouldn't mind us running it again.
By Joe Posnanski
The Indians are one game away from the World Series, there's mayhem and excitement and so much to write about. But for some reason, I'm motivated tonight to write about Chief Wahoo. I wouldn't blame you for skipping this one … not many people seem to agree with me about how it's past time to get rid of this racist logo of my childhood.
Cleveland has had an odd and somewhat comical history when it comes to sports nicknames. The football team is, of course, called the Browns, technically after the great Paul Brown, though Tom Hanks always says it's because everything Cleveland is brown. He has a point. You know, it was always hard to know exactly what you were supposed to do as a "Brown" fan. You could wear brown, of course, but that was pretty limiting. And then you would be standing in the stands, ready to do something, but what the hell does brown do (for you)? You supposed to pretend to be a UPS Truck? You supposed to mimic something brown (and boy does THAT bring up some disgusting possibilities?) I mean Brown is not a particularly active color.
At least the Browns nickname makes some sort of Cleveland sense. The basketball team is called the Cavaliers, after 17th Century English Warriors who dressed nice. Perfect. The hockey team, first as a minor league team and then briefly in the NHL, was called the Barons for reasons that seem to be lost to history and logic. Another hockey team was called the Crusaders. Another hockey team was the Lumberjacks. You get the sense that at some point it was a big game to try and come up with the nickname that had the least to do with Cleveland. Nickname guy 1: How about Haberdashers? Nickname guy 2: No, we have some of those in Cleveland. Nickname guy 1: Polar Bears? Nickname guy 2: I think there are some at the Cleveland Zoo. Nickname guy 1: How about Crusaders? They're long dead.
Cleveland's baseball nickname history has its own crazy history. The baseball team was, for a year in 1890, called the Cleveland Infants. My best guess is they were named that for 16-year-old pitcher Willie McGill, who won 11 games that season, but I don't know. Maybe they brought infants to the games. Maybe they had a deal where you could use your infant as a ticket into the game.
In other years, the baseball teams were called the Blues, the Bronchos and, of course, the Spiders. We'll get back to the Spiders in a few minutes. Then, from 1903-1914, they were known as the Cleveland Naps. This was after the great Napoleon Lajoie, who signed with the team as a free agent in 1903. II'm guessing it was in the contract that they name the team after him; I'm surprised Roger Clemens didn't ask for this. Though Lajoie was a great player, you do have to admire a team that would name itself after a quick afternoon sleep. Then, in 1914, the Naps lost 102 games, and Lajoie hit .258, 80 points below his career average. He was 39 then and clearly done (he did play two more mostly ineffective years in Philadelphia), and so Cleveland needed a new nickname. You know what's coming. This is when legend and fact blur.
The way I had always heard it growing up is that the team, needing a new nickname, went back into their history to honor an old Native American player named Louis Sockalexis. Sockalexis was, by most accounts, the first native American to play professional baseball. He had been quite a phenom in high school, and he developed into a a fairly mediocre and minor outfielder for the Spiders (he played just 94 games in three years). He did hit .338 his one good year and apparently (or at least I was told) he was beloved and respected by everybody. In this "respected-and-beloved" version, nobody ever mentions that Sockalexis may have ruined his career by jumping from the second-story window of a whorehouse. Or that he was an alcoholic. Still, in all versions of the story, Sockalexis had to deal with horrendous racism, terrible taunts, whoops from the crowd, and so on. He endured (sort of — at least until that second story window thing).
So this version of the story goes that in 1915, less than two years after the tragic death of Louis Sockalexis, the baseball team named itself the "Indians" in his honor. That's how I heard it. And, because you will believe anything that you hear as a kid I believed it for a long while (I also believed for a long time that dinosaurs turned into oil — I still sort of believe it, I can't help it. Also that if you stare at the moon too long you will turn into a werewolf).
In recent years, though, we find that this Sockalexis story might be a bit exaggerated or, more to the point, complete bullcrap. If you really think about it, the story never made much sense to begin with. Why exactly would people in Cleveland — this in a time when native Americans were generally viewed as subhuman in America — name their team after a relatively minor and certainly troubled outfielder? There seems to be some evidence now that the Indians were actually named that to capture some of the magic of the Native-American named Boston Braves, who had just had their Miracle Braves season (the Braves, incidentally, were not named AFTER any Native Americans but were rather named after a greasy politican named James Gaffney, who became team president and was apparently called the Brave of Tammany Hall). This version makes more sense, certainly.
There's also a theory that the name was chosen by a fan contest in the newspapers and you KNOW they weren't honoring Louis Sockalexis. We do know for sure they were called the Indians in 1915, and (according to a story written by author and NYU Professor Jonathan Zimmerman) they were welcomed with the sort of sportswriting grace that would follow the Indians through the years: "We'll have the Indians on the warpath all the time, eager for scalps to dangle at their belts." Oh yes, we honor you Louis Sockalexis.
What, however, makes a successful nickname? You got it: Winning. The Indians were successful pretty quickly. In 1916, they traded for an outfielder named Tris Speaker. That same year they picked up a pitcher named Stan Covaleski in what Baseball Reference calls "an unknown transaction." There need to be more of those. And the Indians also picked up a 26-year-old pitcher on waivers named Jim Bagby. Those three were the key forces in the Indians 1920 World Series championship. After that, they were the Indians to stay.
Chief Wahoo, from what I can tell, was born much later. The first Chief Wahoo logo seems to have been drawn just after World War II. Until then, Cleveland wore hats with various kinds of Cs on them. In 1947, the first Chief Wahoo appears on a hat. He's got the yellow face, long nose, the freakish grin, the single feather behind his head … quite an honor for Sockalexis. As a friend of mine used to say, "It's surprising they didn't put a whiskey bottle right next to his head."
Three years later, they changed the Wahoo logo — I suspect this is not because people thought it was racist (nobody really cared) but because they liked a newer, cleaner version of Wahoo. This new Wahoo was another grinning, slightly-smaller-nosed, one-feather Indian, only this time his face was all red.
This is, more or less, the Chief Wahoo of today.
This is also the Chief Wahoo I grew up with, though it should be said that there was a time during my childhood when the Indians seemed more or less embarrassed by Wahoo. I never thought this was because of any PC sensibilities — I think they Indians were just so bad they were looking for a new start wherever they could find one. They started going back to trying various Cs on hats throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including the unforgettable "Crooked C" blue and red catastrophe of 1975. I have to find one of those hats.
Wahoo was around though — there was a giant Wahoo on Cleveland Municipal Stadium, you could see it from a half mile away. I know I wore lots of clothes with that grinning Wahoo on them. I had no problem doing that. I liked Wahoo. To me, he was funny. Then, that's the point, isn't it?
You know, I remember once walking through the Holocaust Museum, and seeing all of these horrifying caricatures of Jews that they would give to kids in 1930s Germany. I looked at these things in horror for a long, long time. You know why? The logos themselves weren't so different from Wahoo. I'm not comparing anything but the style of logos — obviously, the Jewish caricatures were a billion-billion times more sinister. They were meant to raise an entire generation of Jew-haters. Wahoo is, I think, just a stupid sports logo. But — and this is the point — those logos, like Wahoo, were of real people only they were cartoony and goofy and exaggerated and meant to make a child laugh. They did not LOOK much different.
Here's a newspaper quote you might enjoy, taken from the same article I mentioned earlier: "To insist that Native Americans be given equal rights with other citizens is one thing. To insist that their particular sensibilities entitle them to exercise a kind of sensorship is quite another." That's the argument for Wahoo, isn't it? The argument is that Native Americans are being too sensitive. What's the big deal anyway? Chief wahoo doesn't hurt anybody. Don't Native Americans have much bigger problems to deal with than a logo on a baseball cap? Wahoo has been around for a long time, we don't need censorship of our sports because a few Native Americans are marching, right? Trouble is, that quote wasn't about Native Americans. It was actually a quote taken from Washington Post in 1947, and you can replace "Native Americans" with Negroes. It was an editorial The Post wrote about how Little Black Sambo was a fun little storybook character, and anyone who took offense to this grinning, big-lipped abomination was just acting silly and politically correct. Symbols do matter.
The funny thing is, everybody really does understand this on both sides of the argument. The Confederate Flag doesn't just matter to those who see it as a racist symbol. It also matters to those who put in on their trucks or state flags. Neo-Nazis spray paint swastikas on Synagogues — they know it matters. You could not put a Little Black Sambo statue on your front lawn and then say, "Oh, I just appreciate the artistry."
Wahoo is an inherentry racist symbol. Nobody could really deny this. Nobody could look at that grinning mug and say, "No, it's really a flattering portrayal of Native Americans, who were conquered, nearly wiped off the planet by our ancestors and then forced to live on reservations."
The thing is, I think so many of us were raised to think of Indians as cartoon characters, as movie villains, as the Native American who had a tear in his eye because people kept dumping garbage all over this great land, that we have become desensitized. I heard someone doing a comedy bit on XM Radio about Native Americans and casinos and alcohol and how nobody should care anyway because they lost the wars, and though I've heard similar bits (and I think I have pretty tough comedy constitution), this particular one was so cruel, so mean-spirited, so wrong, that I realized there was probably no other group in America someone could say such awful things about without drawing the Kramer backlash.
The only reason Chief Wahoo is around is because Native Americans don't have a strong enough voice in this country to put a stop to it. When Native Americans protested at the 1997 World Series, they were mostly laughed at. Three were arrested. Is this really the kind of country we want to be? And for what? To stand up for our inherent rights to enjoy a racist sports logo?
I love Cleveland. I love the Indians and I even love Wahoo in a weird way because it is such a part of my childhood. But it is not just time to get rid of Wahoo, it is way, way past time. I don't think this is the biggest problem facing the world, or even the 5,4993,287th biggest problem facing the world. I don't care about political correctness either. No. It's just wrong. Very wrong.Get rid of it. The fewer wrong things in the world, better.
And it brings me all the way back to this … why can't we just go back to calling the team the Spiders. That's a great name, and it's not taken by anybody in major sports. There's history there. It actually fits Cleveland (believe me, there are more spiders in Cleveland than Native Americans — especially those creepy Daddy Long Legs that are like walking paperclips). And there are a million incredible logo and mascot possibilities.
Even if they don't get rid of the Indians nickname (I think you might as well go all the way) it's definitely time to bury Wahoo. This would be a good year to make it happen. The Indians are a game away from the World Series. There is some real joy happening. There is some real excitement. The Indians have a real chance to end the longest citywide sports drought in American sports. There are a lot of good feelings in the Cleveland air. It would be a good time to bury a logo that should never have been born to begin with.
You can read other, more recent columns and posts by Joe Posnanski online at Joe Blog.
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IT ALL COMES BACK TO NIXON: This was the big reveal from House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) — more than four decades ago, the IRS gave up President Richard Nixon's tax returns the same day as a request from the Joint Committee on Taxation.
That information, which Ways and Means released after a closed-door meeting that stretched past two hours and left Republicans steaming, is meant to bolster Neal's case to obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns, as Pro Tax's Aaron Lorenzo and your Morning Tax author noted.
The news by itself isn't some big shock — Pro Tax's Brian Faler reported last year that JCT had gotten information beyond the several years' worth of returns that Nixon had voluntarily released, and the presidential tax historian Joe Thorndike noted on Twitter that the details released by Ways and Means on Thursday had been previously implied.
Still, Thorndike also called it a notable day in presidential tax disclosure, being only the second time Congress had released information from a president's return. But what sort of boost it gave to Neal's efforts to get six years' worth of Trump's returns was a matter of some question, and seemed to depend on whether experts thought the situations were similar.
Andy Grewal, a University of Iowa professor who's been skeptical of Neal's case, said there wasn't much overlap, noting that Congress had been following up after Nixon asked them to investigate his returns. "That is different from what the Ways and Means Committee is saying here," he added. "They want returns from pre-presidency years without there being any authorized investigation for presidency years, or even an initial review of returns for those years."
But Steve Rosenthal of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center said the release did a fair bit to undercut Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's claim that Neal was making a first of its kind request. Rosenthal noted that Ways and Means had asked JCT to investigate Nixon's returns back in the 1970s, which makes the situations pretty analogous. "The Nixon precedent is very powerful," he added. "Now, the Ways and Means Committee is being stonewalled."
NOT SO FAST: If nothing else, Judge Trevor McFadden's decision not to hear Trump's lawsuit to keep his state tax returns away from Neal at least delays the president's efforts to get a temporary restraining order on that front, as Brian noted. McFadden has already been assigned Neal's lawsuit seeking Trump's federal returns, and the president's lawyer, William Consovoy, argued that the two cases were similar enough that the judge could take on both.
McFadden's response: Not really — one's a state case, and the other's a federal one. "What's more, McFadden said, Democrats are plaintiffs in one case and defendants in the other, and that could have ramifications for their legal strategies in the cases," Brian added. Neal still has yet to show any interest in Trump's state returns, but Ways and Means also argued in a court filing that the court didn't have the jurisdiction to block him if he does take up Albany's offer.
WEALTH TAX LITERATURE: The revenue projection most frequently cited for Warren's wealth tax, $2.75 trillion over a decade, comes from a pair of prominent Berkeley economists, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
But from practically the start, other experts have questioned whether that figure is too optimistic. The latest in that genre comes from a new paper from the Treasury Department's Matthew Smith, Owen Zidar of Princeton and Eric Zwick of the University of Chicago, who argue in part that it's tough to know just how much wealth is located at the top end and how it's spread across different types of assets.
The paper also suggests (using data from 2014) that a Warren-style wealth tax would maximize proceeds by taxing accumulated wealth of at least $11 million. (Warren instead would place a 2 percent tax on wealth above $50 million, with an additional 1 percent surcharge tacked on at $1 billion.) It's not exactly apples to apples, but even the $11 million threshold would have only raised $146 billion, the paper says — well short of the pace needed to get to $2.75 trillion over a decade.
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Google recently acquired Nest Labs, the company behind the successful Nest Learning Thermostat. It was being rumored that Google would soon start selling the thermostat from its own Google Play Store, and that indeed has happened.
The Nest Learning Thermostat is now listed under the Devices section on Google Play in the US and is available for $249, same as everywhere else. As is usual for the Play Store, however, you will have some shipping charges, so you may get it for a bit less elsewhere.
Nest Learning Thermostat is a smart thermostat that learns your temperature patterns and then adjusts it automatically so you don't have to. Apart from the convenience factor, it also helps saving energy by turning down the heating or the cooling when you don't need it. Nest also comes with its own iOS and Android app, that allows you to remotely control the thermostat.
The company was founded by ex-Apple engineers Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers in 2010 and got acquired by Google back in January 2014 for $3.2 billion.


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BuzzFeed puts in new policies for "community" posts: an uneasy attempt at control
Jeff Roberts Sep 11, 2013 - 2:35 PM CDT
Credit: BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed is riding high. The viral news site, which cuts its teeth on silly cat videos, is now part of the media big leagues where it breaks serious stories, like US journalists taking money from foreign governments, alongside the likes of CNN and the New York Times. And unlike many of its old-media counterparts, BuzzFeed is profitable and growing fast.
Success, however, is leading media pundits to look harder at BuzzFeed's editorial contradictions — like mixing puppy stories with Putin — and ask how long it can keep this up without damaging its brand. In the last month, the question has become more pressing as partisans in the abortion and health care debates use BuzzFeed-themed pages to push controversial political messages through social media.
In response, BuzzFeed on Wednesday put out guidelines for the first time to explain what sort of webpages can be made with its platform tools, which let anyone create and publish their own BuzzFeed story. The new policy is, on one level, a logical response to a swelling number of community submissions. But on a deeper level, it reflects how BuzzFeed, as it grows in clout, is having to define its editorial voice and develop a political and ethical identity.
In a recent interview, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith defended the site's potpourri-style approach to content, and claimed that news outlets really can have it both ways; they no longer have to be either a platform or a publisher nor choose between highbrow or tabloid sensibilities.
Who can use BuzzFeed's online printing press?
BuzzFeed's community platform tool, which has been around since 2007, lets anyone create a BuzzFeed story with ease. The feature began to get more play this May when BuzzFeed created a special community section on its homepage where writers can submit a story; if an editor selects it, the story can get featured on BuzzFeed's home page and receive extra lift from the site's viral wizardry.
BuzzFeed says the tool has taken off of late, with an average of 45 user-submitted stories per day in August. According to Smith, this is partly the result of companies like Harper Collins (ie "17 Problems Only Book Lovers Understand") that are using BuzzFeed as part of their marketing strategy.
"People at companies who managed social media pages now turn to BuzzFeed," said Smith during an interview at BuzzFeed's office in New York's Flatiron District. "One of the reasons people come here is that all the other platforms are optimized for sharing inside one network. But our stuff is optimized to share on all the networks — Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and so on."
It's not just book publishers or cereal brands, however, that are making BuzzFeed pages. Political and activist outfits are also taking to the BuzzFeed platform, often sowing controversy at the same time.
In August, for instance, the Heritage Foundation used BuzzFeed's publishing platform to lampoon President Obama's health care plans. The look and feel of the story, titled "The One Time I Was Really Really Excited About Obamacare," is vintage BuzzFeed: kooky photos, animated gifs, celebrities and big, punchy text lines; "real" BuzzFeed stories adorn the side of the page. Here's a screenshot:
The Heritage Foundation's attempt to channel BuzzFeed proved convincing — so convincing that it fooled Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex) into touting the story as proof that even the liberal media have turned on Obama. Since then, abortion activists have also created "community" pages which many believed were the work of BuzzFeed's editorial staff.
Mad props to @buzzfeed today on this: 8 Outrageous Things Planned Parenthood Was Caught Doing – http://t.co/AxgqPqqH6F
— Catholic Drinkie (@CatholicDrinkie) August 23, 2013
In response to this uptick in interest in user-created pages, the company on Wednesday added tweaks to its design to distinguish between unvetted community posts by a "BuzzFeed user" like the one I just made:
And, on the other hand, community posts selected by editors that get promoted on the BuzzFeed website:
BuzzFeed also for the first time issued community "guidelines" to explain what's acceptable and when it will pull down pages. Under the golden rule of "Don't be that Guy," BuzzFeed lists a few more specific strictures: "no haters;" no spam; no trolling; no porn; no plagiarism; etc.
Who or what is BuzzFeed anyways?
Whatever the guidelines, for now, it appears that user-created BuzzFeed stories will keep surging through social media channels and, at least of the time, create confusion in the process. This has led Hamish Mckenzie, media reporter at PandoDaily, to declare that BuzzFeed has a "Medium problem" and that a company can be a publisher like the New York Times or a platform like Twitter — but not both.
The point is a fair one. If no one can tell who or what BuzzFeed is, its brand may implode in the eyes of readers and advertisers, who may go elsewhere in search of a site that provides a consistent editorial voice.
BuzzFeed, however, appears to think its guidelines and new design will ensure that readers are not confused. Smith points to older publications like the Economist and the Washington Post that regularly dabble with "special advertising sections" to note that readers are used to content that is not produced by staff. And, these days, he says BuzzFeed just reflects an era where news and information comes as a giant mish-mash in the first place.
"I think anyone who thinks that all these different kinds of contents can, or are, being separated aren't looking at Facebook or Twitter. If you think readers can't deal with that, where are you? It's not the future. It's the present."
In Smith's view, BuzzFeed really can be the New York Times and Twitter at the same time. If he's right (and the jury's still out), the BuzzFeed community pages not only juice the site's pageviews, but serve as a talent forum; Smith notes that many of BuzzFeed's paid staff started out in the community pages (this is similar to how Gawker scours its comment section for new writers.)
Finally, for BuzzFeed, handing its platform to the public serves to create a laboratory where people experiment with new story telling techniques, like A Love Story in 22 Pictures:
Can BuzzFeed make it pay?
The debate over BuzzFeed's community contributors comes at the same time as a watershed financial moment for the company: after more than five years, and several large investment rounds, CEO Jonah Peretti has declared that the site is profitable.
But still the questions persist about whether BuzzFeed is built to last. Here's Bill Grueskin of Columbia Journalism School:
Thank you, Francine McKenna, (@retheauditors) for your skepticism on Buzzfeed claims http://t.co/c8qshP5Cls cc @mathewi & @pkafka
— BGrueskin (@BGrueskin) September 10, 2013
Others, including Peter Kafka, are asking whether BuzzFeed's business model — which is based on creating custom, "native ads" for brands — can scale. In other words, can BuzzFeed and brands afford the creative teams to build special snowflake ads at large volumes?
And this is where BuzzFeed's community pages may pose a real threat. After all, if BuzzFeed's platform is so easy to use, isn't there a risk that more brands will simply make community pages rather than pay BuzzFeed for native ads? And, if they do, will BuzzFeed try to turn around and demand a licensing fee to use the platform?
These are questions for the future, though. For now, BuzzFeed is still pulling off its improbable straddle of hard-hitting and banal, publisher and platform. As I left the office, Smith talked up the site's new Cairo and Moscow correspondents — more evidence that haters can hate, but that BuzzFeed is growing even as more venerable names in media struggle to tread water.
Hamish Mackenzie
Jonah Peretti


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