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It's October. Tomorrow is the first day of in-person early
voting in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth at the secretary of
state's website here.
Michelle Obama will be in Cincinnati tomorrow to support
an in-person early voting push in Ohio. The state is considered vital
for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign against President Barack Obama, but while national polling is
close, Ohio is looking very bad for Romney. The
Romney team seems to be banking on the debates to regain momentum, but,
historically, debates have little electoral impact. The first debate is
Wednesday at 9 p.m. A
full schedule of the debates can be found here.
In more good news for Democrats, a recent poll by The Columbus Dispatch found Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is leading Josh Mandel, state treasurer and Brown's Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate seat, by 10 points. The last Dispatch poll found the two candidates tied. The poll shows a long-term trend seen in aggregate polling of Brown gaining momentum and Mandel falling behind.
A former Republican Ohio state representative came out in support of Issue 2. Joan Lawrence came out for the initiative as part of Women for Issue 2, claiming the current system is rigged. If Issue 2 is approved by voters this election cycle, Ohio's redistricting will be handled by an independent citizens committee. Currently, elected officials manage Ohio's redistricting process, but the process normally leads to corruption in a process known as "gerrymandering" in which politicians redraw district borders in politically advantageous ways. In the First Congressional District, which includes Cincinnati, district boundaries were redrawn by Republicans to include less of Hamilton County's urban population, which tends to vote Democrat, and instead include the more rural Warren County, which tends to vote Republican. CityBeat previously covered the issue and Republicans' losses in court regarding Issue 2 here.
Margaret Buchanan, The Cincinnati Enquirer's publisher and president, left the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees Friday to avoid a potential conflict of interest in the newspaper's reporting on the UC Board of Trustees. CityBeat and other media critics mentioned the conflict of interest in the past, particularly when former UC President Greg Williams suddenly resigned and Buchanan refused to comment on speculation around the resignation.
Cincinnati's economic recovery is in full swing. For the second straight month, the area's manufacturers expanded. The Cincinnati Purchasing Management Index, which measures manufacturing, went up from 54.6 in August to 58.8 in September. The index must be above 50 to signify growth; below 50 shows contraction.
Cincinnati's women-owned businesses are doing a lot more than some may think. They are responsible for 3,500 local area jobs.
Ohio's attorney general is devoting more money toward solving cold case homicides. Cold cases are old cases that have not been the subject of recent investigations but could be solved in light of new evidence.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be filmed in southern and northeast Ohio.
Nintendo's Wii U is already looking like the top Christmas toy.
Artificially intelligent gamer bots convinced judges they're human more often than actual humans.
The Internet's strange allure can't be resisted.
First, local blogger and veteran journalist Bill Sloat decided to revive his excellent Daily Bellwether blog after an absence of several months, once again offering his fresh take on news around Ohio's major cities.
Now Jim Hopkins has brought back his insightful Gannett Blog, offering news, analysis and criticism about the newspaper and media giant that owns The Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today.
President Obama's Cincinnati bridge visit is an attempt to literally and figuratively connect Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. No word on whether the top two Republicans in Congress will show up, but Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer is reportedly going to pop in.
Enquirer editor Carolyn Washburn's recent note to readers assures us that the continually shrinking page will elicit readers' joyous cries of "new and improved!"
Don't hold your breath.
The 10-1/2 x 14-2/3 page — about the size of the Business Courier — will be printed in Columbus on the Dispatch's new press. The tabloid should given designers greater freedom to fill the news hole with large photos, graphics and headlines. The local section is so small now that I'm almost inured to diminishing returns on my rising subscription rates.
Page size isn't the issue; what's on them is what matters. I've worked on tabloid-format dailies in three countries. Today, few papers are sold on the street and huge headlines to grab passersby are wasted space. "Headless Body in Topless Bar" and "Ford to City: Drop Dead" were perfect in New York but not here. We need smart, patient reporting. That requires space in the paper. Whether we get it has nothing to do with page size.
• Publisher Margaret Buchanan's
subsequent page 1 note to readers last Sunday was hardly reassuring. It
repeats much of editor Carolyn Washburn's memo (above) and reinforces my
fears: "The pages will be organized with fewer jumps so you
don't have to turn pages to continue reading the same story. Headlines
will be bolder. The print edition will be more colorful with larger
photos and graphics to help tell the stories. Most importantly, we'll
continue to provide unique in-depth news stories ..."
Buchanan comes from the advertising/business side of Gannett journalism, so maybe she isn't troubled by the contradiction in her assurances: short stories burdened by big headlines, photos and graphics on tabloid pages can't be "in-depth" unless they jump from page to page. And she's promising "fewer jumps." Is the next innovation with purpose a shift from "readers" to "viewers"?
• Does the Enquirer have a policy about naming juveniles accused of crimes or is it an adhocracy among editors? When Avondale kids wanted for shoplifting fled in a car, they were named in the first story. When a suburban high school student was accused of a central role in a major drug ring, the first story didn't name him and said that discretion was Enquirer policy. "Avondale" long has been code for black at the paper. "Suburban" or identifying with a suburban high school means white even if that is no longer a reasonable assumption in many cases.
• Last Sunday, WVXU carried a fine conversation between Enquirer sports reporter and author John Erardi and WVXU politics reporter (and lifelong Reds fan) Howard Wilkinson. They talked about Barry Larkin and why he was being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. They know their stuff, they obviously enjoy each other's company, not least because Wilkinson also spent decades at the Enquirer writing about politics and on rare occasion, Reds baseball.
I enjoyed their insights and storytelling even though I'm not a baseball fan. I think I've been to three, maybe four Reds games in as many decades. Blame my parents. The Twins didn't exist when I was a kid; it was Minneapolis Millers v. St. Paul Saints at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis and I don't remember seeing them. We didn't have modern Vikings either and the Lakers left town. No way to nurture a fan.
• I wish I wasn't eating when I read Dan Horn's recent encyclopedia update on water quality in the Ohio River. His Enquirer report was well done. The photos were marvelous. My upset was personal: memories.
When we moved to Cincinnati in 1967, we moored our boat at Elmer & Jenny's Yacht Club downriver in Bromley, Ky. Wonderful people, but "yacht club"? I don't think so.
I water-skied in the river, aware of its water quality but in denial; it's hard to give up the one sport I enjoyed from childhood ... in Minnesota. I only swam in the Ohio to put on or retrieve skies or to drop the rope and wait for my wife to pick me up. I didn't swallow.
I don't remember infections or gastro-intestinal problems from Ohio River water. After all, I had skied for years in the St. Croix between Minnesota and Wisconsin, in the industrial Upper Mississippi at the Twin Cities and downriver to the the two rivers merged. God knows what was in those pre-EPA waters then but maybe I brought immunities to the Ohio.
After three years, we left Elmer & Jenny's Yacht Club for Rocky Fork Lake near Hillsboro in Highland County. We sought fresher breezes and a ski zone free of barge tows and increasingly wild, mindless boaters in the Ohio's Cincinnati basin. Cleaner water was a bonus. I still didn't swallow.
Recalling the Ohio River in the 1960s — aided by Horn's detailed story — was the best appetite suppressant I've experienced in years.
• If you're going to do gotcha journalism, do your homework. A conservative blogger challenged Cleveland columnist Connie Schultz, sure she was a liberal who gets too close to leftwing politicians she covers. "We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him. Care to comment?"
Here's part of Shultz's response, courtesy of jimromenesko.com: "He's really cute. He's also my husband. You know that, right?" Shultz told her former employer, the Plain Dealer where she won a Pulitzer Prize, that she hadn't named the blogger because she wants him to "pick better company and do better journalism."
Romensko said Schultz told him in a telephone interview, "I don't want to be a bully. I can say he was working for one of the larger conservative blogs, but that his name is not in the staff directory. Maybe he's an intern, maybe an editor was playing a joke on him or maybe he was trying to get a reaction out of me. But I just want him to stop hanging around with those people and learn something out of this."
• Jimromenesko.com (see above) also reports that elsewhere in northern Ohio, the Sandusky Register posted a voice mail message left by Erie County Tom Paul for reporter Andy Ouriel. Paul said there was a mistake in the previous day's edition. Here is part of the relentlessly F-bombing message: "You don't know your ass from a fucking hole in the ground. And you know what? — sorry about that but you make me mad. Give me a call back, 419-357-2985, ya shithead."
• Louisville's Courier-Journal chose discretion over valor by not naming two juveniles convicted of sexually assaulting 17-year-old Kentuckian Savannah Dietrich. Lots of people, however, already knew despite the judge's gag order. She tweeted their names to protest over what she fears will be judicial slaps on their wrists. Dietrich told the Courier-Journal they assaulted her when she passed out after drinking at a party. The youths also shared digital images of the assault with others. After negotiations with prosecutors, the pair pled guilty to first-degree sexual abuse and misdemeanor voyeurism. Dietrich faces up to180 days in jail and a $500 fine if the judge convicts her of contempt.
• If you've followed news stories about the run-up to the London summer Olympics, you must know that security for the events and sites is a shambles, even by British standards of bumbling through. The firm that was paid to provide security failed in every way. The government minister responsible for domestic security failed to respond promptly or adequately. The badly stretched Army — already being dramatically reduced in strength and losing historic regiments — is filling roles designed for civilian rent-a-cops and ushers. One cartoon expressed its contempt for the organizers with soldiers being told they'll be able to return to Afghanistan after the Olympics. Be grateful that Cincinnati's bid for this colossal money pit was rejected.
• Here's a question I haven't seen asked by the national press: Do we want a president as detached as Romney says he was from his responsibilities as owner and CEO of Bain? He says he didn't know if his subordinates were shipping jobs overseas. The screwed up Salt Lake City Olympics — which he did help save — were more important. I believe him. But how does that salvage his claim to being a keen businessman who can sort out our country's economy?
• Get over it. With more than 300 million citizens and immigrants and almost as many firearms, Americans have nut jobs and a few will be violent. So I wouldn't be unhappy if our mainstream news media suffered massacre fatigue. Maybe the latest Colorado shootings will speed that process. Similar fatigue already is evident in diminished foreign/war news.
It isn't a question of whether to focus on the victims or the shooter or a search for "reasons." You don't ask mass killers for reasons. Given the utter inadequacy of mental health services and our easy access to firearms, our rational response is to accept the risk that someone else will die in irrational mass shootings. That's a price the NRA and its pusillanimous legislative allies find acceptable if the alternative is more effective firearm regulation.
A different rational response might be a news media campaign for a costly, annual federal tax stamp for every high-capacity magazine for every firearm to which they can be fitted. This wouldn't disarm hunters in any way. Semi-automatic hunting rifles and shotguns don't have or require 20 or 30 cartridges to put venison or duck on the table.
The tax would include the stick-like magazines for semi-automatic pistols and submachineguns and the familiar curved magazines for civilian versions of the AK47 and its kin. Drum magazines - like that found at the Aurora theater - can hold scores of rounds and be fitted to some military and military-style weapons as well as the Thompson submachinegun and its descendants. Drums would be covered, too.
This tax wouldn't take away anyone's firearm or testosterone-enhancing firepower. It doesn't limit the number of rounds shooters can load into their weapons the way the extinct Clinton-era 10-shot limit did. The sole function of high-capacity magazines is to make it easier to kill lots of people. That's why real military weapons like the AK47, the M16 or even the World War II Browning Automatic Rifle — the famous BAR — had high-capacity clips.
The tax would not be a Second Amendment issue ... or shouldn't be. It copies the longstanding $200 federal tax required for fully automatic weapons owned by civilians. Americans buy those firearms and pay the tax.
• Americans own more handguns, shotguns and rifles every year and reported violent crime has sharply declined. Coincidence? Absolutely. Second Amendment? When's the last time you heard about someone with a licensed concealed firearm and an extra-high-capacity magazine stopping a crazed gunman? Believe me, the news media would be full of such a story or NRA complaints about liberal suppression of a patriotic tale.
I'm talking about a news media campaign to make it harder to kill lots of people in a few seconds or minutes. However, that throws us into the confused world of acceptable risks. There isn't a chance in Columbine of doing more than taxing high-capacity magazines when Americans also accept as normal the thousands of daily deaths from drug, tobacco and alcohol abuse, obesity, medical errors, etc.
• There's still another related, rational response for the news media to the Batman killings: Give less prominence to nut cases worrying whether the Muslim Brotherhood has a sleeper agent at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's right elbow, or that less than a 20- or 30-round magazine will allow Mongolian mercenaries in UN blue helmets and black helicopters to enslave us to a world government. On the other hand, while the GOP and its crazier allies promote distrust, fear and hatred of government, don't expect such courage from the news media. That could risk being seen as partisan.
• Enquirer reporter Sharon Coolidge's use of open records law documented Cincinnati's lax enforcement of lead paint removal orders. She told CityBeat that her coverage included positive impacts in addition to those above in my main column:
The day after her story was published, Mayor Mark Mallory ordered health officials to explain why they hadn't forced problem landlords to clean up their properties.
Three public hearings led to a comprehensive city plan to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010. The plan lowers the medical threshold at which health officials can intervene, thus catching lead poisoning in its earliest stages.
City Council gave the health department more than $1 million to finance reforms. Poor families are getting kits to detect whether their homes are contaminated.
In one of his first acts as new governor, Ted Strickland allowed cities to sue lead-paint producers; Cincinnati is suing Sherwin-Williams.
State lawmakers are considering a new law, named after a family featured in the Enquirer story, to provide $20,000 grants for lead removal.
• A more recent public benefit from open records laws involved the Enquirer suit to obtain secret streetcar vendors' bids. Attorney Jack Greiner, who handles First Amendment issues for the paper, said that Cincinnati's ordinance requires bids be available for public review. Faced with resistance, the Enquirer went to court. Hamilton County appellate judges agreed with the paper, rejecting company arguments that records were exempt from public records law as "trade secrets."
• Unless you're living under a Rock of Cliches, you've read or heard that flu is sweeping the nation. Every sneeze, every cough, every chill and shiver warns us that the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse is tethering his pale horse at our curb. The catch is that despite breathless news media offerings, little unusual is happening except for an early, aggressive onset of the perennial scourge. Thousands die every year from flu, most of them elderly. It would be news if we didn't. Annual death estimates — hampered by incomplete reporting and similar health problems — range from 3,000 to 49,000.
• An Enquirer Sunday Forum carried Michael Kinsley's column about Hillary Clinton's extensive foreign travel as secretary of state. Kinsley doubts the value of much of her travel but in today's world, "The less important the trip, the more prestige you gain by taking it." Having time and money to waste proves you have time and money to waste . . . even if you're on the taxpayers' clock and paycheck. Maybe that explains an otherwise inexplicable Enquirer revelation that Steve Chabot is a foreign policy expert, citing his extensive foreign travel at taxpayer expense.
• Enquirer reporter Dan Horn produced two nay-saying front page stories. Both were welcome surprises from Cincinnati's "get on the team" daily. One questioned the argument that right-to-work laws provide an economic boost in states like Indiana, Michigan, or, potentially, Ohio. That anti-union policy was a staple topic in my 1950s high school debating days. Economic analysis, like divining why crime rates change, is more complicated than whether union membership is optional or required in a "union shop." Too many union/right-to-work debates — fueled by no-compromise advocates putting re-election before public benefit — ignore complexity.
• A second invocation of skepticism by the Enquirer's Dan Horn raised serious doubts about feel-good gun buy-back programs. I'll go this far on guns: each firearm bought back and destroyed (not bought back and sold to dealers for resale) is a gun that won't kill someone. Cincinnati Police destroy buy-back weapons not needed for investigations. Buy-back, however, won't change life on Cincinnati streets where scores of young men kill each other each year. Anyone who wants a firearm can get one faster than you can say, "Your money or your life." Similar doubts about Cincinnati's gun buy-back program made Page 1 of the New York Times.
• Fox 19's Dave Culbreth came up with a smart take on the controversial idea of arming teachers and school administrators. He interviewed Target World assistant manager Amy Hanlon who demonstrated how a woman could carry a concealed handgun. As Culbreth noted, there was nothing special about her clothing: slacks, blouse, overshirt. By the end of the interview, she'd removed nine concealed semi-automatics or revolvers, including one tucked under her bra in a holster that also was displayed on a counter-top mannequin bust.
• WCPO-TV plans an online local news challenge to the Enquirer's Cincinnati.com, according to Business Courier's Jon Newberry. It's a pioneering effort by Cincinnati-based E. W. Scripps that could go national, Newberry suggested. Whether additional reporters, producers, editors, etc., will come from the Business Courier and other established news media was not clear. Scripps — a Cincinnati-based national print and broadcast company— published the Cincinnati Post until it closed the barely-sustaining joint operating agreement with the Enquirer ended in 2007.
• Blogger Peter Heimlich tipped me to Channel 19 anchor Ben Swann's web gig called Full Disclosure. Swann says there are enough witnesses to challenge official police narratives of single shooters at three recent massacres: the Oak Creek, Wis., Sikh temple; Aurora, Colo., Batman movie premiere, and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Salon.com challenged Swann about his apparent validation of those counter-narratives and he replied in part, "The bottom line for me is the issue of asking questions. As you will notice, I don't call these operations 'false flag' as many people do … (his ellipses) But as a journalist, that is not my job. Rather, my job is to be a critical thinker." And he added, "most of our media fail to question stories . . . a journalist's job is not to have the answers, it is to ask the questions and search for truth."
• There's a pathetic undercurrent in the Enquirer's Monday Page 1 profile of Henry Heimlich's efforts to regain American Red Cross support for his eponymous "maneuver." The physician claims there is no research to support the Red Cross's decision to return to back slaps rather than Heimlich abdominal thrusts as first response to choking. Other than Heimlich's self-serving claims, there is no research proving his maneuver works as well or better than back slaps. Assertions are not evidence. Moreover, the Red Cross adopted Heimlich's maneuver years ago without the research Heimlich is calling for now. Heimlich has anecdotal evidence of lives saved but that's not research. Wisely, reporter Cliff Radel quoted skeptics and critics of the maneuver. That kind of even-handedness usually escapes admiring Enquirer stories about Heimlich. And if the paper ever corrected a Memorial Day feature on water safety, I missed it. The Enquirer drew national ridicule with its illustration on how to use Heimlich's maneuver to revive a standing near-drowning victim.
• It's spitting into the wind to ask sports reporters to question what jocks tell them, especially when truth-telling endangers future access. In the Good Old Days, who read about fornicating, drunken and racist professional athletes? More recently, golf reporters and publications didn't write about married Tiger Woods' screwing around. This time, it's Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's stories about the heart-ripping death of girlfriend Lennay Kekua from leukemia. Editors loved it. Now, it seems she was a fiction amplified by incurious and credulous reporters. It took sports blog Deadspin.com to reveal the fraud after its reporters could find no public records of her birth, life, education or death. Almost as nauseating as the saccharine original stories about her death are the faux introspection by sycophant reporters caught by the fraud.
• We've gone a week without a promo for Oprah's interview with champion liar-cheater Lance Armstrong. That's closure. So what does Armstrong do now? Pitch performance enhancing drugs and blood transfusions on ESPN and late TV?
• Al
Gore sold his troubled Current cable network to Al Jazeera, the
satellite network based in Qatar in the Persian Gulf. Good. Nothing bars
foreigners from owning a cable network here, unlike the law that forced
Australian Rupert Murdoch to obtain U.S. citizenship after he bought Fox.
Backed by the ruling Qatari emir, Al Jazeera scandalized Americans for broadcasting tirades by Osama bin Laden and other anti-western Arab leaders. We should have welcomed what they said in Arabic for home audiences. Too often, we rely on sanitized remarks for non-Arabic-speaking audiences or Washington assurances it was trying to verify that speakers were who they said they were. Al Jazeera also infuriated Arab audiences by carrying interviews with American and Israeli officials that others in the Middle East ignored or rejected.
Most American cable companies won't carry the newer Al Jazeera English but its website is one of my daily stops, especially when, say, AQIM kidnaps oil workers in Algeria or French Legionnaires assist Mali's pathetic army in trying to halt and turn back Islamist rebels.
Al Jazeera coverage of "Arab Spring" was so aggressive that embattled North African rulers correctly accused it of supporting anti-government demonstrators. So is Al Jazeera open to interference by the Qatari government? Yes. Are its biases plain to anyone who listens or reads? Yes. We don't ignore Fox News for its biases.
• American news media employ local nationals in foreign bureaus for their contacts and language skills. That reliance failed when no one reported the 2010 anti-semitic rant by Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who now is Egypt's president. In part, Morsi called Jews "apes and dogs" and shared the fantasy that the Palestinian Authority was "created by the Zionist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests."
Still nastier, he urged listeners "to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews . . . bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs."
A stump speech in his Nile Delta hometown, it took more than two years to reach English-language news media. The original Arabic video is on YouTube now. I encountered a translation of Morsi this month on a Forbes website that, in part, chided the New York Times for missing or killing the story. Days later, it was on Page 1 of the Times. After that, the Obama administration an official "tut-tut."
• Maybe they'll blame one of those ominous Canadian Cold Air Masses (meteorological, not theological) for the brain freeze that disabled news judgment at the Toronto Star. Flippant columns about rape aren't funny. Jimromenesko.com posted these first two paragraphs of Rosie DiManno's column about testimony during the sexual abuse trial of a local physician:
"She lost a womb but gained a penis.
"The former was being removed surgically — full hysterectomy — while the latter was forcibly shoved into her slack mouth..."
• Headlines are an art that always risks a step too far in an attempt to cure the copy editor boredom and draw readers to a story. This one, from philly.com, achieves both in what has become a national story about a popular and well-connected parish pastor: "Catholic priest/meth dealer liked sex in the rectory." You know you'd read more.
• Finally, this from Shannyn Moore, who blogs on HuffPost as "Just a Girl from Homer, Alaska." It appeared first in the Anchorage Daily News and makes her points without venturing beyond the pale into bad taste: "I'm not advocating for no guns. I like mine and am not about to give them up. But in this country, my uterus is more regulated than my guns. Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don't kill people — vaginas do?"
"In order to continue the highest level of care for our growing patient volume, we have adjusted our office hours. Effective January 2nd, 2013, (sic) hours of operation for Phase II cardiac rehabilitation will be Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6:00 AM through 4:00 PM. Hours on Tuesday and Thursday will be 6 AM to 2:30 PM. Thank you for choosing The Christ Hospital Health Network."
That significantly shortens the afternoon/evening hours daily for a "growing patient volume." Didn't anyone read this Orwellian language before it went out over an exec's signature on hospital letterhead? To continue the highest level of care Christ will provide less, especially if patients need outpatient cardio rehab after work?
If outpatient rehab has too few clients, are cardiologists and cardiac surgeons at this aggressively marketed heart hospital urging patients to work out at the Mount Auburn facility? Aren't these docs telling us to quit smoking, lose weight and exercise more?
It's not a question of the quality of the care by therapists and RNs at the outpatient rehab center; if it were, it would be closed.
• The Sunday Enquirer carried a valuable column on Dec. 30 on what Ohio laws passed in 2012 mean. Picked up from the Columbus Dispatch, it's a marvel of brevity and clarity and it proves there still can be substance inside the Sunday Enquirer Local section.
• In the Good Old Days, the Enquirer would fill local pages with "evergreen" stories written before holiday slow news days. If these timeless trivia weren't used, they could be spiked or recycled for future fallow news days. Today, evergreens apparently have been tossed on the editorial pyre while this metropolitan daily's diminished staff is filling its shrunken news hole with staff and reader pet photos.
• God help the Enquirer photographer who brings in a horizontal ("landscape format") photo for page A1. It won't fit. Formulaic layout has ads and promos bannered across the top and bottom, a deep multi-column vertical photo or graphic on the left and a little bit of news beside and beneath that photo or illustration. It seems to be the same every day, regardless of events. It hardly qualifies as design. Cover pages on the Local section fare no better. My guess? The format saves thinking every day about how best to present the news ("content" or "product") for remaining page editors at some central Midwest location.
• The Nation offers evidence-based insights into school shootings from Katherine S. Newman, coauthor of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings and dean of arts and sciences at Johns Hopkins.
For starters, teach kids it's right, good and potentially life-saving to tell adults when other children or teenagers talk about killing, shooting, etc. Peers of potential killers are our best early warning system.
Newman's research also rebuts NRA's grandiose goal of an armed "guard" in every school; most schools are unlikely to become killing grounds. She wrote:
"These shootings tend to happen in small towns with no history of background violence rather than in big cities which suffer almost every other kind of brutal attack except this one. There has been only one example of a rampage school shooting in an urban setting since 1970. All the others have taken place in rural towns miles from places like New York or Chicago, or in suburbs in the Western states."
Paducah, Ky., was one of the towns that her team studied after Goth-wannabe Michael Carneal shot five Heath High School classmates: three died, one is paralyzed and another was badly wounded.
Newman's research reflects that of many others in describing Carneal as typical of school shooters. He was a nerdy young white male who couldn't make lasting friendships and never fit in at school or in his football-worshiping community. He was looking for acceptance and "shooting people is drawn straight from the Hollywood playbook that equates masculinity with violence."
Carneal talked a lot about shooting and killing but no one risked being called a snitch by alerting his parents or adults at school.
• What Were They Thinking? Gannett's Journal News in suburban New York went online with the names and addresses of handgun permit holders in two counties in its circulation area. The paper says it will sue to force a third county to provide that information. The paper claims the list and accompanying interactive map showing permit holder's locations are a public service. Malarkey. Horse puckey. Madness. So what if the data come from public records? So do names of men and women who claim to be victims of sex crimes. We don't publish that. So what is a reader supposed to do with the handgun information? Cui bono?
Wingnuts spin wild fantasies about burglaries to obtain handguns from permit holders or burglars hitting homes where no one has a conceal/carry permit. My problem is different: it's hard enough to wrest public documents from dim and self-serving officials. Decisions by the Journal News can't help but undermine remaining public support for investigative/database reporting.
The Enquirer, Louisville Courier Journal and Indianapolis Star also are Gannett papers. I hope the Journal News' perversion of First Amendment assertiveness doesn't become a route to Gannett corporate rings for editors and publishers. (My name will appear if the Enquirer identifies permit holders in its circulation area. I took the class, passed the exam and obtained my permit for a cover story a year after Ohio allowed counties to issue conceal/carry permits.)
• Anger over the Gannett paper's online posting of names and addresses of handgun permit holders (above) quickly morphed into online retaliation. Some critics posted what they said was the home address and photo of Gannett corporate CEO Garcia Martore. Other Gannett execs' home addresses have been posted and bloggers have listed home addresses and contact information for staffers at the Journal News. The paper has hired guards for its Westchester headquarters. If guards aren't active law enforcement officers, they must have handgun permits and could be included in lists published by the paper.
• The daily Brattleboro Reformer bannered this headline across page 1 recently: "Let is snow, let is snow, let is snow." Executive editor Tom D'Errico told romenesko.com that it was a "terrible, terrible typo. The night crew was short-staffed and we had an unusual last-minute early deadline with the storm marching in." Later, he wrote in his blog: "I kept running over the reasons in my mind . . . of how or why a mistake like this can and does happen. But everything just sounded like an excuse. And the truth is: there is no excuse."
• Ailing former President George H.W. Bush had one of those "greatly exaggerated" brushes with eternity recently. (That now-a-cliche expression originated in Mark Twain's response to a reporter who confused him with ailing cousin James Ross Clemens. Snopes.com says Twain actually told the reporter, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" but added "greatly" in a manuscript.)
Back to Bush the Elder. Houston's WBAP-AM blasted an email saying, "The Death of a President: George H. W. Bush." Romenesko and Texas Observer reported that news director Rick Hadley blamed the error on a common practice among news media: "We get our obituaries ready to go for people who aren't doing well." When Bush entered a local hospital's ICU, WBAP prepared an email blast for his death. Hadley said a problem with the email system sent the death message to about a third of the station's subscribers. Thirty minutes later — after callers alerted the station to its misstep — WBAP quickly sent out a corrected email. Hadley said the bulletin was not read on the radio.
WBAP was typical of smart news media: It updates obits of prominent men and women to avoid being unprepared when the inevitable occurs. Unfailingly, that's on deadlines when staff is short and sources are unavailable because of holidays or late/early hours. These advance obits have blanks for timely details: age, cause of death, where the person died and a credible confirmation of death. Then they are filed in ways meant to prevent all-too-common premature release.
That caution didn't prevent Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel from mistakenly publishing Bush's obituary in late December. AP said, "The unfinished obituary appeared on Der Spiegel's website for a few minutes before it was spotted by Internet users and removed. In it, the magazine's New York correspondent described Bush as 'a colorless politician' whose image only improved when it was compared to the later presidency of his son, George W. Bush." A Der Spiegel Twitter feed said, "All newsrooms prepare obituaries for selected figures. The fact that the one for Bush senior went live was a technical mistake. Sorry!"
Years ago at UPI, we put out HOLD FOR RELEASE obituaries of leading figures worldwide. Some of our client media saved the incomplete obits to await news of the death. Others removed mention of death and often published them as space-filling weekend feature stories.
The Associated Press doesn't send out advance obits as a practice but Dan Sewell, AP's correspondent in Cincinnati, noted a different problem: the subject outlives the byline reporter. Last year, New York Times ombuds Margaret Sullivan wrote generally about obits after talking to obit editor Bill McDonald and touched on that problem: "Occasionally, the author of the obituary was already dead by the time the piece ran – Vincent Canby on Bob Hope and Mel Gussow on Elizabeth Taylor, for example. Mr. McDonald said that in most cases when an obit subject outlives the writer, The Times does a new piece. 'But in select cases,' he added, 'we feel the obit is too fine to discard, particularly if it is by a writer who brings a certain authority to it.' The Times assigns a live body to update the obit and, in the case of Mel Gussow, offered a note to the reader acknowledging the status of the author."
• We've all won another battle to hold cops accountable. The American Civil Liberties Union sued to preempt Chicago police who object to an ACLU project on police accountability. ACLU wanted to make sure its employees wouldn't be busted for recording officers' words. The federal appellate court in Chicago said we all share a First Amendment right to record what police say to us. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the Chicago police appeal, affirming the lower court ruling. Earlier last year, federal courts said we have a right to photograph police in public. My guess is dimmer, bolder police everywhere will continue to arrest reporters who record their words and others who photograph their actions. That's not futile. The possibility of an arrest record — even knowing the charge will be tossed by a judge or prosecutor — can be intimidating and leave cops free of scrutiny.
• Let Congress obscure methods and goals in naming legislation but reporters should challenge any legislator who talks about "preventing" gun violence.
We can't prevent it. With some nuts among
the 300-plus million living in this country and almost nonexistent mental
health programs, some killers will find and use firearms on other
people. We can't prevent it. That we have hundreds of millions of
firearms makes massacres even likelier. Reporters should press
vote-seeking legislators on how their proposed restrictions will limit
casualties from inevitable firearm violence. That brings us back to the
1994 restriction on high-capacity magazines for semi-automatic weapons.
Hunting weapons and pistols for self-defense don't need or use them.
When Katty Kay was asked during her visit here last week about the most trustworthy news source, she joked that her bosses at the British Broadcasting Corp. would not be pleased if she answered anything but "BBC."
Beyond loyalty, she was right in a global sense. For decades, BBC's World Service has been the most trusted news source in dozens of languages.
• Critical thinking was in short supply at the Senate Judiciary Hearing where gun control foes testified. It's sort of like using a faux quote by Hitler to prove gun registration leads to confiscation, which leads to socialism or worse. Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women's Forum told senators that "guns make women safer" and a ban on assault-style weapons with high-capacity magazines would endanger women.
To illustrate her case, Trotter cited 18-year-old Sarah McKinley's successful defense against an armed intruder near Blanchard, Okla. Police there told CityBeat that she killed him with a 12-gauge pump shotgun, a classic hunting weapon owned by millions of Americans. That was a good choice for McKinley but an unfortunate example for Trotter; no one is suggesting that shotguns be included in proposed gun controls.
Then, as if to prove that fewer Americans are hunting or serving in the military and know what they're talking about (also see below), MSNBC mistakenly said she used a rifle. ABC News was no smarter: It had her reenact the shooting with a double-barreled shotgun.
McKinley's single-barrel pump shotgun was taken as evidence in the homicide, probably to be returned when her claim of self-defense is affirmed. Meanwhile, Guns Save Lives, a nonprofit, sent her a similar, replacement shotgun.
Not only does Oklahoma allow lethal force for self-defense inside a person's home, but McKinley asked the 911 operator what she could do to protect herself and her child. The dead intruder's companion reportedly told police the intruders were after prescription painkillers that they assumed McKinley's husband left when he died a week earlier from cancer.
• A secret shooter? After Obama's comments to the New Republic about having fired a gun, the White House released a photo of the president on the Camp David retreat skeet range. Wearing protective glasses and ear protection, he's firing a shotgun at the 4-5/16 inch flying clay discs (pigeons) last August. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," Obama told the New Republic. "Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there." However, the AP story accompanying the skeet shooting photo in Sunday's Enquirer mistakenly says he's firing a rifle. I'm not sure whether Obama used an over-and-under shotgun, but it certainly didn't look like a rifle. That inexplicable clanger escaped AP and Enquirer editing despite our unprecedented national debate over certain types of firearms. NRA pooh-poohed Obama's comments and photo, saying it changes nothing in NRA opposition to greater gun control.
• John Kerry drew scorn in 2004 after he was photographed with Ted Strickland and others with just-shot geese in an eastern Ohio cornfield. Possibly recalling that ill-conceived effort to bond with hunters, Obama didn't release his skeet shooting photo before the election last year. Kerry's goose hunting was ridiculed as a dumb photo op, especially because Kerry borrowed the farmer's hunting outfit and double-barreled shotgun for the day. Whether Kerry bagged any additional rural voters was unclear; Bush won Ohio.
• I began contributing to the new National Catholic Reporter in the mid-'60s when I started covering religion at the Minneapolis Star. I freelanced for NCR when I had that same assignment at the Enquirer. A privately owned, independent weekly based in Kansas City, Mo., NCR was a voice of Roman Catholics who embraced the spirit as well as the documents of the Second Vatican Council.
Traditional churchmen had little reason to love NCR. It was a pain in the ass and collection basket. It reported the flight of clergy and nuns, often into marriage. Jason Berry pioneered reporting of priestly child abuse. Penny Lernoux covered Latin American death squads and links between murderous reactionaries and the church. Murders of nuns, priests and bishops who embraced liberation theology and the church's "preferential option for the poor" received extensive, probing coverage.
The bishop of Kansas City and a former diocesan editor, Robert W. Finn, recently joined predecessors' fruitless condemnations of NCR's journalism. In a letter to the diocese praising official church media, Finn was "sorry to say, my attention has been drawn once again to the National Catholic Reporter. … In the last months I have been deluged with emails and other correspondence from Catholics concerned about the editorial stances of the Reporter: officially condemning Church teaching on the ordination of women, insistent undermining of Church teaching on artificial contraception and sexual morality in general, lionizing dissident theologies while rejecting established Magisterial (official) teaching, and a litany of other issues.
"My predecessor bishops have taken different approaches to the challenge. Bishop Charles Helmsing in October of 1968 issued a condemnation of the National Catholic Reporter and asked the publishers to remove the name 'Catholic' from their title — to no avail. From my perspective, NCR's positions against authentic Church teaching and leadership have not changed trajectory in the intervening decades.
"When early in my tenure I requested that the paper submit their bona fides as a Catholic media outlet in accord with the expectations of Church law, they declined to participate indicating that they considered themselves an 'independent newspaper which commented on "things Catholic." ' At other times, correspondence has seemed to reach a dead end.
"In light of the number of recent expressions of concern, I have a responsibility as the local bishop to instruct the Faithful about the problematic nature of this media source which bears the name 'Catholic.' While I remain open to substantive and respectful discussion with the legitimate representatives of NCR, I find that my ability to influence the National Catholic Reporter toward fidelity to the Church seems limited to the supernatural level. For this we pray: St. Francis DeSales (patron of journalists), intercede for us."
• Rarely have I seen such a neat dismissal of creationism and defense of evolution as the following by 19th century skeptic Robert Ingersoll. It's quoted in a review of The Great Agnostic, a biography of Ingersoll, in the neo-conservative Weekly Standard:
"I would rather belong to that race that commenced a skull-less vertebrate and produced Shakespeare, a race that has before it an infinite future, with an angel of progress leaning from the far horizon, beckoning men forward, upward, and onward forever — I had rather belong to such a race … than to have sprung from a perfect pair upon which the Lord has lost money every moment from that day to this."
• The Weekly Standard also published "A teacher's Plea: The GOP shouldn't write off educators." Eloquent Colleen Hyland speaks beyond partisanship for her vocation and colleagues in her Jan. 21 essay. Among other things, she hopes to shake Republican/conservative ideologues out of their animus toward public school teachers and their unions. Among her points: Hhateful generalizations about teachers and their desire for a living wage also degrades women.
• I didn't know Kevin Ash and I'm not a rider but I read his motorcycle reviews in London's Daily Telegraph for years. Details of his death in South Africa are unclear, but he died during the media show testing the new BMW R1200GS motorcycle. His informed, passionate writing was a delight for itself, even if I never thought to get on a two-wheeler again. When I was what the Brits' call a "motoring correspondent," my interest was cars, whether with three or four wheels. There were a lot of us writing about cars and motor racing/rallying in Europe and Britain in the 1960s; postwar Europeans were getting into cars for the first time in most families' lives. We were read whether it was the test drive of an exquisite new Zagato OSCA coupe (built by the original Maserati brothers) or a boring Opel sedan. But getting killed during a test ride? Since most of us had some inkling of what we were doing astride a motorcycle or behind the wheel, that would have been very bad luck.
• Time Magazine's world.time.com website posted this howler. The original Time story purported to look at Oxford and Cambridge roles in Britain's social mobility. Appended to the online story, Time's correction has a lawyerly tone. Here it is at length and verbatim:
"This article has been changed. An earlier version stated that Oxford University accepted 'only one black Caribbean student' in 2009, when in fact the university accepted one British black Caribbean undergraduate who declared his or her ethnicity when applying to Oxford.
"The article has also been amended to reflect the context for comments made by British Prime Minister David Cameron on the number of black students at Oxford. It has also been changed to reflect the fact that in 2009 Oxford 'held' rather than 'targeted' 21 percent of its outreach events at private schools, and that it draws the majority of its non-private students from public schools with above average levels of attainment, rather than 'elite public schools.'
"An amendment was made to indicate that Office for Fair Access director Les Ebdon has not imposed but intends to negotiate targets with universities. It has been corrected to indicate that every university-educated Prime Minister save Gordon Brown has attended Oxford or Cambridge since 1937, rather than throughout history. The proportion of Oxbridge graduates in David Cameron's cabinet has been updated — following the Prime Minister's September reshuffle, the percentage rose from almost 40 percent to two-thirds. Percentages on leading Oxbridge graduates have been updated to reflect the latest figures.
"The article erred in stating that private school students have 'dominated' Oxbridge for 'centuries.' In the 1970s, according to Cambridge, admissions of state school students ranged from 62 percent to 68 percent, sinking down to around 50 percent in the 1980s. The article has been amended to clarify that although only a small percentage of British students are privately educated, they make up one-third of the students with the requisite qualifications to apply to Oxbridge.
"The article erred in stating that Oxford and Cambridge 'missed government admission targets' for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Rather, the universities scored below 'benchmarks' for admission of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds which are calculated by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, a non-governmental body. The article was amended to clarify the point that Cambridge continues to run Sutton Trust summer schools.
"The article mistakenly suggested that the current U.K. government had launched an 'initiative to reform Oxbridge.' There was no official initiative, but rather a marked push by the government to encourage change. The article referred to Cambridge and Oxford's efforts 'in the past two years' to seek out underprivileged students. In fact, their commitment is far more long-standing — programs to reach out to underprivileged students have been operating at the two universities since at least the mid-1990s.
"The article erred in suggesting that Cambridge had protested state school targets, and in stating that it had 'agreed to' ambitious targets, rather than setting the targets themselves that were then approved by the Office of Fair Access. The article has been amended to clarify that there is debate over whether the 'school effect', whereby state school students outperform private school students at university, applies to those at the highest levels of achievement, from which Oxford and Cambridge recruit.
"The article has been changed to correct the misstatement that a lack of strong candidates from poor backgrounds is not the concern of Oxford and Cambridge. The article has amended the phrase 'Oxford and Cambridge's myopic focus on cherry-picking the most academically accomplished,' to more fairly reflect the universities' approach."
• Until I read the Time correction above, I'd forgotten one in which I was involved. A young reporter covered a Saturday national church meeting in suburban Cincinnati at which denominational leaders argued how to respond to homosexuals in the pews and pulpits. This was when such a discussion was courageous, regardless of the views expressed. I edited the story. It was a good, taut story and it ran in a Sunday Enquirer. All hell broke loose. The reporter attributed exactly the opposite views to each person quoted. Instead of a forthright correction, I recall running a new, corrected story plus the apology.
City Council wants to do more research before it proceeds with freestanding public restrooms in downtown and Over-the-Rhine. The vote has been delayed. Critics say the restrooms are too expensive at $130,000, but supporters, particularly Councilman Chris Seelbach, insist the restrooms will not be that expensive. A majority of City Council argues the restrooms are necessary because increasing populations and growth in downtown have made 24-hour facilities necessary.
A new report found Ohio's budget would benefit from a Medicaid expansion. The expansion would mostly save money by letting the federal government pick up a much larger share of the cost for Ohio's population, particularly prison inmates. A previous study found Medicaid expansions were correlated with better health results, including decreased mortality rates, in some states. Another study from the Arkansas Department of Human Services found the state would save $378 million by 2025 with the Medicaid expansion. Most of the savings from the Arkansas study would come from uncompensated care — costs that are placed on health institutions and state and local governments when uninsured patients that can't and don't pay use medical services.
The Dayton Daily News has a wonderful example of how not to do journalism. In an article on the supposed "climate debate," the newspaper ignored the near-unanimous scientific consensus on global warming and decided to give credence to people who deny all scientific reasoning. To be clear, there is no climate debate. There's the overwhelming majority of scientists, climatologists and data on one side, and there's the pro-oil, pro-coal lobby and stubborn, irrational conservatives who will deny anything that hurts their interests on the other side.
The Ohio Board of Education approved policies for seclusion rooms. The non-binding policy requires parents to be notified if their children are placed in a seclusion room, and the Ohio Department of Education can also request data, even though it won't be made public. More stringent policies may come in the spring. Seclusion rooms are supposed to be used to hold out-of-control kids, but an investigation from The Columbus Dispatch and StateImpact Ohio found the rooms were being abused by teachers and school staff for their convenience.
If the city wants to buy Tower Place, the mall will have to be cleared out, according to City Manager Milton Dohoney. Last week, the remaining businesses at Tower Place were evicted, and Dohoney said the city did not sign off on the eviction orders. Apparently, the city really didn't agree to or enforce eviction orders, but the city's buyout requires evictions. Dohoney said the eviction notices should signify the deal to buy Tower Place is moving forward.
Dohoney appointed Captain Paul Humphries to the assistant chief position for the Cincinnati Police Department. Humphries has been on the force for 26 years, and he currently serves as the chief of staff to Chief James Craig.
Cincinnati's Neighborhood Enhancement Program (NEP) is targeting Mt. Airy and Carthage. Starting March 1, police, businesses and civic groups will begin putting together accelerated revitalization and reinvestment plans for the communities. NEP emphasizes building code enforcement, crime, neighborhood cleanup and beautification.
Good news, everyone. Cincinnati is no longer the bedbug capital.
Bob Castellini, owner of the Reds, was named the region's master entrepreneur by Northern Kentucky University.
The Ohio Department of Transportation released a website that has real-time traffic information.
Oh, science. Apparently, particle physics could improve Netflix's suggestions.


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Feb 16, 2012 2:29 PM
Surprised about being better than before the patch? This could be the resaon...
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SOme Quotes of some Haxor Forums:
"ok and some codes have been patched?
Yes alot of codes
LMFAO if you use a mod menu in a public match it just kicks every1 out and doesnt let anyone in the lobby ****! "
"THIS PATCH SUCKS OLD GRANDPAS!!!! it ****** everything up"
"As of right now i havent found 1 working code"
"DAMN IT. ******* treyarch/infinittyward/activision"
"Message, from IW:
"Our level fastfile is different from the server! Aborting connection"
Mods in public match officially confirmed non working.
I hope they fixed the game rather than just fix h4><. "
"i cant ******* get on my ******* wii frezzez every ******* time god damn
't "
Muhahaha... in ya faces, nubs! GREAT WORK TREYARCH! I didn't think anyone could ever handle this retards
That feels so gratifying. IN YOUR FACE, GOD DAMMIT!
I would've rather seen them all banned and see them cry of pain and anger, but this should do for now
The Predator missile hack still works.
yea, i just made an acc just cause of my problem.i heard there was a patch and got happy.so i tired to get online to get it, but it freezes on me everytime.i don't hack on call of duty.i even removed my sd card which is only used for my super smash bros game for the textures and stages.you guys know whats going on?!
Jace, you playing from Disc?
Padiego, this also works on public? If understand it right, there codes which let'm freeze, and the one who work only work in private. At least atm.
Yes i do.mw3 my first cod game.love it alot.when that aimbot glitch happened i went and bought black ops wii.i just dont know whats wrong atm
So yo play form orginal disc via Disc channel? This is wired, do have done some modding on your wii? Preloader and such stuff?
yes, i do play the oriiginal disc via disc channel.i havent done anything to the wii that i can think of.is it possible just having the homebrew channel on your wii can affect it?cause i go straight to mw3 and not through homebrew into the game like i do to smash bros.
@padiego: I see, I hope it's the only one.
No Jace, this is very unlikely. Going over hombrew into the game ist jsut like using another door. If you haven't done any mods to your Wii, for example like preloader, which go very deep into the system, there's no way that it can affect you playing regular.
SOme more details please: When exactly do you get your freeze? It hapend right after the update? Went the update fine or did it cancel? The more details, the better
i was playing just this morning.till like 12.it freezes on me when im trying to get online and hoping to get the patch,but freezes when its loading online multi.not sure if it just my wii then.maybe i need to wait it out.
Spec Ops and Singleplayer work?
tried going to spec ops, and it tells me i need the patch and takes me to multi to get it.and of course, it freezes when i try to get online to get the patch.singleplayer works.
I see...
Ok, try this:
Go to your Wii Saves and search for the save which is entiteld with "pay and play" for MW3. Erase this one. DO NOT ERASE YOUR PROFILE DATA! There's stored all your game process. YOu have 2 save games, again, one which is someting like "pay and play" described and one which is called profile data. ERASE ONLY THE PAY AND PLAY SAVE. Then try it again...I hope this will work.
i did just that as you instructed, and it seems that i did download the patch.i got an error at first after downloading.but then i managed to get online and everything.thank you so much for the help.now let's see how some matches go finally the assault killstreak works!
Glad to here, have fun
Yes, the predator missile hack still works on public matches.
At least this isn't THAT bad.
I iz very happy because of that =]....They patched my d*** gametype changer
but do alot of ppl know it or is it just a few
Reading this and another thread regarding people not being happy about hacks/cheats working, etc ... I was LMAO.
But it also makes me wonder how much of this affects the things in the game we're all complaining about. And on other platforms as well.
Game is still ****. Full of ******* FMG asswipes. They didn't patch them..
just leave the game? maybe even akimbo back?
Well I would be celebrating this if my profile wasn't hacked and I want to get it back to normal...
Its so amazing they actually dont wanna play the game now that they cant hack.
(: I will finally play some s&d

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Our annual visit to Shimonoseki was soon over and we drove home more than satisfied by the food and stocked up with gifts for the family back in the UK and a good selection of books for Mrs danyul to read. We spent several days at 'home' preparing for the arrival of Mrs danyul's brother and his family. MiniMe looks forward to this as it means his slightly elder cousin and slightly younger cousin arrive to play with him. Each come armed with their Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii games. The 3 of them become inseparable for the next few days and are busy running around the house, eating together, and playing all sorts of games. It's always a shame to say goodbye to them each visit and MiniMe is always especially sad to see his play friends leave.
A visit to Japan has to include a stop at a shrine or three and this trip proved no exception. It is traditional visit a shrine on new years day and this has come to be one of our customary trips. However, our first shrine visit was slightly further away as we spent a day at a fantastic onsen (hot spring baths) relaxing. I remember my first visit to Japan when I was not exactly very comfortable at the onsen since it involves full nudity (men separated from women of course) but these days I don't think anything of it. It's also a lot easier now that MiniMe is old / big enough to keep his head above water in all the baths so I am having to continually chase him as he throws himself around like the baths are a private swimming pool just for him.
The nearby shrine is very picturesque and draws many visitors from the surrounding area. I cannot profess to know much or understand much of the religion followed but the shrine is a very welcoming place and we always make sure to stop at the small shrine within the building that is devoted to children. We are always thankful to have a healthy young MiniMe but realise that there are lots of people who are not as lucky so we will all say a little prayer and make a donation at the children section.
Each year MiniMe will carefully make sure to drop and count 8 large beads strung out in front of another section of the shrine. I have no idea of the significance of why 8 beads and why this would bring good luck and Mrs danyul is unable to provide much guidance as she was never big on Japanese religion.
After having several very warm days we then had a rain storm hit the area on New Years Day so we were not able to go kite flying as usual. There was still plenty to do and MiniMe made sure to spend his New Years money well at the local shopping mall. This year he wanted to buy himself a new game for the Wii and was determined to get Wii Sports Resort after his cousins brought along their copy and the trio then spent several days playing against each other. However, it seemed that Wii Sports Resort was a very popular choice for all the kids now rich with gifts of money from their family. Thankfully the very last electronics shop we visited had a single copy left and was offering a 20% discount on all Wii games so MiniMe even had some cash leftover. Being the Japanese version of the game it meant that MiniMe couldn't take it home to the UK but he was quite happy to have it for the rest of the stay and to leave it behind ready for the 2011/12 trip.
I have to admit that one of my favourite reasons to visit to Japan is to sample the wide range of divine food. Not only is the choice of food fantastic, it is nearly always reasonably priced compared the same food type that you would find in the UK. You can guarantee that we will visit the ANA Hotel Ube several times just to eat from their lunchtime Viking (buffet) lunch. The price is cheap compared to anything comparable back home and the selection is extremely wide and tasty.
For a little extra you can include all you can eat desert as part of the buffet but we tend to just stick to the main meal and then move ourselves into the cafe area if we want any desert. There is a whole selection of different cakes at the cafe and you can sit in relative peace and quiet although you do have to watch out for the smokers since Japan has not yet banned smoking in public places and you can guarantee that there will still be smoking only tables in most places.
During this visit we went to a new canteen style restaurant that I had never seen before and was absolutely amazed at. The layout is very simple in that it resembles a school canteen and you simply walk along with your tray and help yourself so the small dishes before someone rings up the total at the end. The food on offer was a very high standard and I was very cheap and I was stunned to find out that this is considered a 'working persons' restaurant where most of the local office workers will get their food. We visited twice and I can understand why my mother-in-law rates this as her favourite local place to eat. On both occasions we stood out, primarily because I was the only non-Japanese guest, because everyone else was either dressed for office work or was some sort of construction worker taking their lunch break.
Our 2010/11 visit to Japan was once again approaching its end and we would soon be making our way home. I did manage to fit in some runs while we were there so I didn't lose all my fitness by being away. MiniMe had a great time with his Japanese family and improved his language skills while I caught up with a lot of reading and just relaxing by being away from work. Mrs danyul was glad to see her family and seemed to stock up on the contents of each and every Japanese book store we passed while still finding room in suitcase to get as much Japanese food product as possible stuffed inside.
Unfortunately our return journey home did not go as smoothly as anticipated. The plane ticket prices to Japan were extremely high in 2010 so we left booking until the last possible moment in the hope of being able to get a slightly cheaper price. Sadly the prices didn't fall at all and the flights we originally wanted were all full by the time we went to book our flights. This meant that we had to leave a day earlier than planned, which meant we just escaped a huge snowfall that would have kept us stuck in the UK for several days, and also that we could not book a direct flight home. We flew from Ube to Tokyo as normal but then had to take an ANA flight to Frankfurt. This leg of our return journey was heavenly as the flight was mostly empty, which meant we could spread out to take a row of 4 seats each. However, the change at Frankfurt did not go well as it took an age to clear German immigration, who especially did not seem to like my Kindle so proceeded to escort me to a separate room so that it could be fully scanned. We eventually made it onto our Lufthansa flight to London but sadly the majority of our luggage didn't. It seems that everyone who transferred onto this flight at Germany also had their luggage left behind so we wasted a good hour queuing at Heathrow to register our lost luggage. Bizarrely my suitcase did make in onto the plane so a very tired danyul family found their taxi driver and arrived home. I had to then work from home for the next few days to make sure someone was home to accept delivery of the lost luggage once it made it back to London.


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After receiving a receipt with a phone number to rate the service at my local pharmacy (which is always excellent), I called the 800 number to place my opinion. The call could not be completed because I was asked to enter the mumber 1 to continue in English. THIS IS AMERICA! For those who do not choose to learn our language, ask them to push a number. I refuse to communicate with any company on the phone that asks me to push 1 for English. I am by far not the only American who feels this way. Respectfully, Paulette S. When a call is placed, simply ask the person to push 1 to continue in Espanol, otherwise begin the questionaire in English.
There are a lot of things I could say to you Donald/Paulette, but Ithink "You're an idiot" says enough.
Oh my God. Your letter made me throw up a little in my mouth. I can say so much. First of all, and I believe this has already beenpointed out - the survey WAS in English. They asked you to push 1 tocontinue in English. Did the call start in Spanish and ask you to push1 for Engles? Second of all, speak for yourself - do not throw otherAmericans in with your bigotry. Finally, unless you are Native American - who are the only people whohave the right to complain about others being in this country - thenyou need to sit down, shut the hell up and ask yourself, "Where are myancestors from?" GRRR!! I can't stand bigots.
Pushing that single button must have been really difficult andemotionally wrenching for you. I'm so, SO sorry that you had to gothrough that trauma. There must be support groups out there forpeople like you.
From what I can tell, the survey did begin in English. Otherwise, howcould you have known that they said to press 1? From what I can tellwith just about every phone call I make anymore, they all ask you topress 1 to continue in English, or they begin in English and then theysay something in Spanish which I assume to be "Press 1 to continue inSpanish." I do not speak Spanish, so I'm only assuming. "THIS IS AMERICA" Yes, and in America people speak many, many different languages. Wearen't called "the melting pot" for nothing, you know. And I wouldnot claim with pride that you are "not the only American who feelsthis way" because those of us who don't feel this way see people inthat group as hateful and small-minded. Do you want to be part ofthat group? You are a racist, plain and simple. And make sure you never travelabroad, because they'll all be laughing at the stupid,English-speaking American. Or should everyone in the world learnEnglish just to suite people like you?
You must NEVER talk on the phone then because most businesses now say:Press 1 for English and Press 2 for Spanish. It does BEGIN inenglish... Unfortunately, you are not the only "american" who feels this way. Ifyou remember correctly, this country was founded because ofpersecution and insane demands on the people. Looks like you shouldget on the boat and go to England because clearly you have missed themessage. Disgusted at you, Sean G.
THIS IS AMERICA! Yes, exactly. "For those who do not choose to learn our language," There is no "our" language. The United States does not have anofficial language. "ask them to push a number." But to do that, the call would likely have to begin in Spanish. Howwould you feel about that, Paulette?
"THIS IS AMERICA!" Yes, it is. The Melting Pot. Wikipedia: "The melting pot is an analogy for the way in whichhomogeneous societies develop, in which the ingredients in the pot(people of different cultures, races and religions) are combined so asto develop a multi-ethnic society. The term, which originates from theUnited States, is often used to describe societies experiencing largescale immigration from many different countries." Meditate on that one for a second.
I honestly don't get myself upset about things like this anymore, Ijust press 1 if I want to continue. It's not the end of the world.
Don't come to Canada; the law says we have to be nice to the French.
No, you're not the only American who feels this way, unfortunately,based on the number of letters we get about this issue. But I reallydon't see what the big deal is. You press "1" for English,Spanish-speaking people press "2" for Spanish. What's the problem? The only calls I hate are the ones that go through the spiel inEnglish, then the same one in Spanish, THEN ask you to press a number.And the only reason why I hate those is because it makes the call takelonger.
But the survey does begin with English, it says "Press 1 for English". If they didn't make you press a button for English, then you would beforced to listen to "Pulse uno para espaol". Atleast now you canquickly press "1" so you don't have to hear a word of that un-GodlySpanish. By the way, I think its great that CVS values all customers opinions,not just English speaking ones.
Hmm...I didn't notice that at first. Obviously, there was some sort ofchange in the OP after creating his/her post. Amazing.
I honestly can't see what the big deal is. All you have to do is topush a single button. So you want the survey to be in English, and only have Spanishspeaking people be the ones that have to push a button? Even if yougot your way, you'd still have to listen to "Por espaol oradores, porfavor, pulse el nmero uno", before the survey would start, which wouldtake even longer, since it would need to allow time for any input. Atleast you can cut off the whole sentence as it is by pushing #1, andgetting on with the survey. What if they were to allow input for several languages? "Press 1 forEnglish, 2 for Spanish, 3 for French, 4 for German, 5 for Italian, 6for Swahili, 7 for Japanese, 8 for Chinese, 9 for Hindi, and 0 forTagalog". Imagine how long that would take for your survey to begin! As others have pointed out, there is no official language in the US. I think you're making way too much out of this by refusing to press asingle button on your phone.
First of all I have some shocking news for you, you might even want tosit down for this. English is not the only language in this world, oreven in American. Heck, we don't even HAVE an official language. Let me guess, you also get upset when instructions are printed in morethan just English. The call could be completed, it is just your odd views that made itimpossible.
You push 1 for English. Spanish speakers push 2 for Spanish. They'repushing a button, too. AFTER you. Happy now?
What would your comment be if Spanish were 1 and English were 2? Onecan barely imagine. You don't speak for all Americans, so get that out of your head. I,for one, acknowledge that there are more Spanish speaking people herethan there used to be, so if they require a menu to choose a language,putting Engish as number 1 is a nod to the past domination of thelanguage. "The call could not be completed because I was asked to enter themumber 1 to continue in English." All you had to do was enter a 1 -you could have completed the survey. Sheesh.
The United States is the only country that does not have a nationallanguage. English speaking people will soon be the minority, italready is in some states. Good Day
As dulynoted said, it's been that way for quite a while now, but I doagree that it's annoying and should be the other way around. However,if you are receiving excellent service from a pharmacy, I wouldn't letthis get in the way. A good pharmacy is hard to find.
Don't know where you have been but these automated calls have beenlike this for a while now. Its very annoying to say the least that ourlanguage - English - is considered to be secondary to Spanish now. I deal with this daily with insurance companies also...even the onesin India and South America. They all have these options on theirphones now.


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What evidence do we have for evolution besides fossils and genes?
Scientists have found multiple lines of evidence for evolution, not just one or two. These types of evidence are independent of each other, coming from sources as different as ancient fossils and modern genetics labs. Evidence also comes from comparing the anatomy of creatures living today. All creatures with four limbs (whether mammals, birds, or reptiles) have the same bone structure in each limb, pointing to their descent from a common ancestor. More evidence comes from biogeography. Isolated islands are missing common species found on the mainland, but are filled with many unique species that can be related by a common ancestor. Finally, evidence comes from embryonic development. As an embryo of a mammal grows, its heart develops through stages similar to fish, amphibians, and reptiles. God's creation declares the history of life in many different ways. All these ways are pointing to a consistent picture of God creating through evolution.
What scientific evidence do we have about the first humans?
In recent decades, scientists have discovered more about the beginnings of humanity. The fossil record shows a gradual transition over 5 million years ago from chimpanzee-size creatures to hominids with larger brains who walked on two legs. Later hominids used fire and stone tools and had brains as large as modern humans. Fossils of homo sapiens in east Africa date back nearly 200,000 years. Humans developed hearths for fire, stone points for spears and arrows, and cave paintings by 30,000 years ago. By 10,000 years ago, humans had spread throughout the globe. Genetic studies support the same picture. Humans share more DNA with chimpanzees than with any other animal, suggesting that humans and chimps share a relatively recent common ancestor. Also, the same defective genes appear in both humans and chimps, at the same locations in the genome—an observation difficult to explain except by common ancestry. Genetics also tells us that the human population today descended from more than two people. Evolution happens not to individuals but to populations, and the amount of genetic diversity in the gene pool today suggests that the human population was never smaller than several thousand individuals. Yet all humans, of all races, are descended from this group. Humanity is one family.
What do Biblical scholars today say about Genesis 1-2?
In recent decades, evangelical Biblical scholars have reconsidered non-literal interpretations of Genesis. The Accommodation view of St. Augustine and John Calvin is supported by recent discoveries about ancient cultures. Literature from these cultures shows interesting parallels and differences with Genesis accounts. The differences are striking, such as stories where creation is a battle among many gods rather than the acts of one sovereign Creator. The similarities, however, show how God accommodated his message so that the Israelites could understand it. For example, the Egyptians and Babylonians thought the sky was a solid dome. This solid dome appears in Genesis 1 as the firmament created on day 2. God did not try to correct the "science" of the Israelites by explaining that the sky was a gaseous atmosphere. Instead, God accommodated his message to their cultural context. Many evangelical Biblical scholars have concluded that Genesis is not meant to teach scientific information.
What is the genetic evidence for evolution?
Darwin developed his theory of evolution by looking at scientific evidence available in the mid-1800s. Since then, the whole field of genetics has developed, adding a powerful independent line of evidence in support of evolution. Genes show how the physical traits of living things are handed down and modified from one generation to the next. By comparing the DNA of many organisms, scientists can map the relationships between species. This map is in remarkable agreement with Darwin's predictions. The structure of chromosomes and particular genetic sequences point to the conclusion not just of common design, but common descent as well.
Why should Christians consider evolutionary creation?
Because evolution is a challenging subject, many Christians are tempted to simply ignore or reject it. Yet considering evolutionary creation has important benefits for Christians both in our relationship with the Creator, and with our relationships with other people—believers and non-Christians alike. First, Christians should study evolution because (like all the natural sciences) it is the study of God's creation. Creation itself is a complementary revelation to what is communicated in the Scriptures, and through it God shows how and when he brought about life, to his honor and glory. Studying the creation is also an invitation into a deeper understanding of the attributes and character of Father, Son and Spirit. Second, considering evolutionary creation aids the Church in its gospel mission, supporting young Christians in their faith, helping answer critics, and equipping us to engage effectively in the wider culture. An anti-evolution attitude can harm Christian young people by presenting them with a false choice between pursuing science OR holding to faith. Similarly, a hostile attitude towards evolution can hinder evangelism when seekers hear that they must reject science to follow Christ. On the other hand, studying evolution as a God-ordained process helps Christians refute arguments that science encourages an atheistic worldview. Furthermore, as the church engages front-page issues raised by the rapid growth in science, medicine, and technology, a Christ-centered voice in such areas as bioethics will be stronger if based on a thorough understanding of the natural sciences, including evolution.
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In this article, Venema offers his review of Stephen Meyer's book Signature in the Cell.
Genesis and the Genome
This article provides an overview of genomics evidence for common ancestry and hominid population sizes, and briefly discusses the implications of these lines of evidence for scientific concordist approaches to the Genesis narratives.
Evolution and the Origin of Biological Information
In this paper, Venema explores several examples in biology where random mutation and natural selection have indeed led to substantial increases in biological information. The question of how new specified information arises in DNA, far from being an "enigma", is one of great interest to biologists.
From Intelligent Design to BioLogos
In this paper, Venema tells the story of his transition from support of Intelligent Design to the view that God uses evolution as a creative mechanism.
The BioLogos Foundation and "Darwin's Pious Idea"
In this paper, theologian John Wesley Wright reviews Connor Cunningham's book Darwin's Pious Idea, a work that deeply explores the integration of Darwinian evolutionary theory and Christian faith.
Understanding Adam
In this paper, Pete Enns looks at from a unique angle to some: Adam is the beginning of Israel, not humanity. He follows through with how this line of thinking affects our reading of the Genesis account.
"Come and See": A Christological Invitation for Science
This chapter from Mark Noll's book Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind seeks to understand science through a Christ-centered lens. Overall, if one accepts that nature is created and sustained by Jesus Christ, the author explains, then one must conclude that looking at nature is, in fact, the best way to learn about nature.
The Collapsing Universe in the Bible
In this essay, Godawa argues that the decreation language of a collapsing universe with falling stars and signs in the heavens was actually symbolic discourse about world-changing events and powers related to the end of the old covenant and the coming of the new covenant as God's "new world order." In this interpretation, predictions of the collapsing universe were figuratively fulfilled in the historic past of the first century.
C.S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design
This article is a comprehensive study of the views of Christian author and apologist C. S. Lewis on the theory of evolution and the argument from intelligent design. It explains how he would distinguish expressly philosophical arguments for a Transcendent Mind from the current claims of the intelligent design (ID) movement to provide scientific evidence for such a reality.
Science as an Instrument of Worship
NASA astronomer Jennifer Wiseman asserts that studying creation can show us the nature of God; science can inform us of what we need to do as stewards of God's creation; understanding the natural world gives us a deeper knowledge of Jesus Christ; and science can give us a better understanding of ourselves. This essay was presented at the November 2009 Theology of Celebration Workshop.
Barriers to Accepting Creation by an Evolutionary Process: Concerns of the Evangelical Theologian
Renowned Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke considers eleven barriers that prevent evangelical theologians from accepting evolution as a possible means of creation and what these barriers tell us about the tensions perceived by many Evangelicals between science and faith. Waltke's work was based on a survey sent to members of the Fellowship of Evangelical Seminary Presidents and their faculty.
An Evangelical Geneticist's Critique of Reasons to Believe's Testable Creation Model
Biologist and BioLogos Senior Fellow Denis Venema examines the interaction between RTB literature and several lines of genetics-based evidence for common ancestry. In so doing, he also addresses the scientific robustness and reliability of the RTB model.
Metaphor, Mystery, and Paradox at the Confluence of Science and Faith
Artist and BioLogos Senior Fellow Mark Sprinkle considers the role mystery plays in both science and faith, and why basing one's faith purely on reason in fact contributes to a rationalist view of the world rejected by many Christians.
Faithful Poetics and Christian Knowledge of the World
Artist and BioLogos Senior Fellow Mark Sprinkle describes the importance of acknowledging the creative and subjective aspects of human knowledge in the midst of the debates about the relationship between science and faith.
Accommodationist and Proud of It
Science and religion scholar Michael Ruse gives a personal account of his experiences as an author and public speaker on the compatibility of Christianity and biological evolution.
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So far you've argued that weightlifting is good for athletes, and we can all agree with that. The key, IMO for this essay is to state why athletes from different sports should be doing snatches, cleans etc instead of just squats, leg extensions, leg curls and so on like some of the HIT people would argue. Since it is for an English class not a PE class I wouldn't dwell on the details of specificity, etc too much but I would try to find some sources and properly quote them/include them in your references. I think that is what an English prof would look for. You are on the right track with examples of weightlifters that display impressive explosiveness and athletic ability. One could argue that those guys were already athletic, or that is wasn't specifically olympic lifting that made them that way. There may be peer reviewed articles published that compare the effects of different training methods with regards to improving vertical leap or other things an athlete might value. The section about diet really isn't relevant to your argument. It's a different topic (how an athlete should eat).
Hey Alex,Here is a proposal I put together for the fitness club I work at that argues the benefits of olympic lifting. Many of the arguments you are using are probably covered, but the important part is that it includes research. So feel free to get a hold of the research I have referenced at the end and use it for you paper. I also know for a fact there is research out there that deals with greater improvement in verticle with programs that emphasized cleans over just squatting but you will have to find them I don't remember the citations. On a side note, in this paper you will see a lot of word pay on the name of olympic weightlifting (ie it is not actually used) this was because the owner doesn't look favorably on our "big weightlifter types" so we played word games to sneak it past her :P


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