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Phillies in mix for available Houston reliever Wilton Lopez
One of the outfielders on the wish list of many Philadelphia fans — even if he wasn't on that of the Phillies nearly as much as many reports alleged — got his dream contract from the Atlanta Braves Wednesday when B.J. Upton agreed to a five-year deal with the Phils' National League East rivals.
It brings an end to a curious "bidding war" for Upton where Atlanta might have been the only team to make a concrete offer. ESPN analyst and longtime lousy general manager Jim Bowden breathlessly tweeted days ago that the Braves, Phillies and a "mystery team" were in a "fascinating bidding war" for Upton.
The biggest mystery seemed to be where, exactly, the fingerprints of a serious effort by the Phillies on Upton were found. Despite reports to the contrary, there was no visit to Philly by Upton, and there was no reason for the Phillies to stop any misleading reports about Upton to prevent his cost to a rival to rise.
That said, there is a deal the Phillies are close to consummating: A trade that would solve their need for a dependable set-up man in the bullpen.
Wilton Lopez was in Philadelphia Wednesday, having his arm checked as the Phillies tried to finalize the details of a trade that will make the Astros right-hander their eight-inning reliever for 2013. While nothing is official and names won't be divulged until then, a source said the cost is a pair of prospects close to ready for big-league action.
One of the prospects discussed was catcher Sebastian Valle, who became expendable when the Phils acquired another backstop, Tommy Joseph, in the Hunter Pence deal with San Francisco at the trade deadline last season. Joseph, 21, highly impressed the organization with his play at Double-A Reading and in the Arizona Fall League. Valle, 22, and Joseph are at about the same spot in their development, and thanks to a solid reputation for developing catchers, the Phillies are getting value for that position.
The safe money for the other prospect is one of the handful of relievers the Phils brought up last season — Justin DeFratus, Mike Stutes, Michael Schwimer or Jake Diekman.
Lopez, 29, was 6-3 with 10 saves, a 2.17 ERA and 1.04 WHIP for an otherwise woeful Astros squad in 2012. Over the last three seasons he has averaged 68 innings and has a 2.64 ERA and 1.126 WHIP. He is in his first year of arbitration eligibility, so the Phils are getting a late bloomer in his prime and getting paid a reasonable wage.
Lopez would set up Jonathan Papelbon and should allow Antonio Bastardo to move into more of a specialist/seventh inning role. It also takes the heat off young, talented right-hander Phillippe Aumont, who showed big-time potential as a reliever last season. Throw in Jeremy Horst and Josh Lindblom and the Phillies suddenly have a bullpen with youth, talent and experience.
As for the continued need for outfielders, that process should heat up soon, with the Winter Meetings on tap next week and the deadline for teams to tender offers to their own free agents to protect their compensation rights arriving Friday. Giants center-fielder Angel Pagan isn't close to re-signing with the defending World Series champs, and the Phillies are in a prime position to get after the rangy outfielder and N.L. leader in triples last season. It will be interesting to see what becomes of Michael Bourn and his lofty contract expectations, and if his value recedes enough to get the Phils' attention.
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It's funny how the presence of certain people can shift our perspective on our fears and our problems. I once heard a story about a meeting between the former Superior General of the Jesuits, Fr. Kolvenbach, and Pope John Paul II. According to the story (which at least has the ring of truth), John Paul was by this point already quite diminished by Parkinson's Disease. Fr. Kolvenbach, then more than 80 years old, had come to ask for permission to step down as General. John Paul declined his resignation and Fr. Kolvenbach accepted his decision tranquilly. When he returned to Jesuit headquarters, his fellow Jesuits inquired about the meeting, and Fr. Kolvenbach observed rather matter-of-factly, "It's very difficult for me to stand before this Pope and argue that I am too old and too frail to do my job." In light of John Paul's own heroic perseverance, in other words, even substantial concerns and frailties came to seem rather manageable by comparison.
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Declan Murphy has lived a life of quiet service to others. Once a Catholic priest and a professor of existential ethics at Trinity College in Washington, D.C, he has moved on to help address the health needs of those around the world suffering from hemophilia and other genetic bleeding disorders, as well as promoting AIDS education.
Murphy, who has lived and worked in Litchfield since 2000, established Novens, Inc. in 1997. It is a major distributor of plasma and plasma protein products for use around the world. He also serves as a consultant to major biopharmaceutical corporations and the public health sector in health care development worldwide.
From 1989 to 1993, he was the executive director of the World Federation of Hemophilia, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with hemophilia and other genetic bleeding disorders. About 75 percent of people in the world with bleeding disorders do not receive adequate treatment, and the federation lobbies for improved education and medical interventions.
At the time Murphy joined the organization, those suffering from hemophilia were facing an even bigger horror than the chronic—and potentially fatal—condition they were born with. In the 1970s, cryoprecipitate injections had "hugely improved" the treatment of hemophilia by providing concentrations of clotting factors to control bleeding, according to Murphy. Cryoprecipitate is produced by cooling blood plasma and collecting the coagulation factor VIII. It is often created from pooled supplies of blood taken from multiple donors.
This proved problematic in the 1980s, however, when doctors began to take note of a new blood disorder dubbed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. The cause of the disease was not understood in the early days. "We didn't even have the vocabulary to describe what was happening," Murphy said.
Unfortunately, the pooled blood supplies used to create cryoprecipitate were not then screened for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV, which causes AIDS).
"Cryoprecipitate was a huge plus in the '70s for people suffering from hemophilia," said Murphy, as he sat in his elegant home on South Street in Litchfield. "At the time, no one knew that the life-saving injections were condemning them to death. Seventy to 80 percent of those with severe hemophilia A were infected."
Writing for the 1992 book, "AIDS in the World," Murphy noted that of all the high-risk groups for AIDS, those with hemophilia were proportionally the most affected. The first cases were reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 1982, and by Jan. 1, 1992, there had been a cumulative 84 percent increase in infection. More than 1,800 cases had been reported by that date, with an overall fatality rate of 64 percent. The highest infection rates, logically, were found where blood was pooled, with the infection rate in America being the highest in the world.
Ironically, one of those stricken was Frank Schnabel, founder of the Canadian Hemophilia Society. Schnabel wanted to create an organization that would help scientists from many different countries join together to find a cure for hemophilia, and in 1963 he also founded the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH), which now has 113 member countries. The WFH holds world congresses every two years and has made great progress in finding more efficient ways to treat hemophilia. The World Health Organization became associated with the WFH in 1969, and the two groups have done research and experiments together for many years.
But it was too late for Mr. Schnabel. He was one of the hundreds of people suffering from hemophilia infected with HIV in the 1980s, and he died of AIDS in 1987. Continued...
In looking back at the first four decades of its history, the WFH wrote in its newsletter, "It has been argued in retrospect … that more should have been done at the early stage of the AIDS crisis. But four aspects of the situation should be remembered. Firstly, there was no test for infection until 1984. Secondly, it was thought that only a few of those infected would progress to overt disease. Thirdly, those who had experienced the profound effect of inadequately treated severe hemophilia, both patients and their advisors, were fearful of stopping treatment. And lastly, there was concern that a switch back to fresh frozen plasma or cryoprecipitate would not only stop most home therapy and prophylactic programs in their tracks, but would also remove source material for the manufacture of concentrates. ... At least one of the lessons learned from the horror of this pandemic was the need for constant surveillance and the speedy dissemination of knowledge about possible transfusion transmitted disease."
To avoid a similar situation from happening again, the WHF developed task forces and committees to monitor safety and supply issues and promoted various activities, such as the Global Forum on the Safety and Supply of Treatment Products.
In response to the leadership void created following Schnabel's death, the WHF and its new president, Charles Carman, set out to in¬¬troduce business man¬agement processes into the organization. He hired Mr. Murphy as its first professional executive director in 1989.
"It was an extraordinary learning experience because I knew nothing about the field at that time," said the Murphy. "Prior to that, I had been a priest. I enjoyed being a priest, and my leaving was no reflection on anyone else or on the church. It just got to be the time for me to go."
What came next turned out to be his "fascinating" job with the federation, where he put together seminars and workshops in developing countries to help disseminate information about the growing crisis. Inevitably, the organization ran into resistance. The governments of India and Chile, for instance, insisted that AIDS was not found in their countries. "I dealt with governments that literally had blinders on," he said. "They didn't want to know. They wouldn't even let us use the word AIDS—everyone thought AIDS was a dirty word."
During this period, he was a National Mem¬ber Organization representative at the World Health Organization in Geneva and served on the board of directors of AmFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research). He has given speeches and seminars in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
As a result of the crisis, the plasma protein industry began to police itself. The Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association was formed in 1992 in the wake of the AIDS infection of the hemophilia community when there was a climate of distrust and disregard for the industry at large.
After four years at the helm of the WFH, Murphy was offered a position as vice pres¬ident of international business relations at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, representing the company before governments, industry and consumer groups. It was a natural job for the Dublin-born Mr. Murphy, who is a multi-cultural polyglot. A graduate of the University of Salamanca in Spain, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts, and a Master of Arts degree in philosophy. He also holds a theology degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He is fluent and culturally expert in Spanish and Italian, speaks French and has lived and worked in Spain, Italy, Mexico, Virgin Islands, Canada and the U.S.
But his career there lasted only three years. "Corporate life became too many meetings and too few results," he said quietly. "I got bored with it. After that, I started one company, BKP Biologicals, but that didn't work out, so I started Novens."
At Novens, he acts as a broker, purchasing what he calls "half-baked" plasma-derived protein therapies at the best price possible from manufacturers around the world. He ships them to the countries where their preparation will be completed, and where they will be delivered to those needing them. Continued...
The products can be used to treat immune deficiencies that leave their victims susceptible to a wide range of infections. According to the company's Web site, "Novens is guided by the highest ethical principles in the conduct of all aspects of our business and by an uncompromising level of service to our customers based on respect, commitment and dedication."
Listening to Murphy, the listener has little doubt of the truth of this statement. "There is no room for mistakes because you are dealing with someone's life," he said.
These shipments are time-sensitive, and temperature must be strictly controlled during transit. One expensive shipment had to be scrapped because the temperature in the "envirotainer" rose too high.
Murphy coordinates all elements of shipment in conjunction with his shipper, Bennett Inter-national Transport, completes documentation, and insures for product integrity.
He notes that while he does not manufacture any of these products, there are times when he can directly intervene in the human dramas that the plasma proteins help alleviate. He recalls the time just recently when a Mexico City mother contacted him. She had found him through Novens' Web site, and told him that her young-adult daughter had suffered kidney failure nine years before and later, through a blood transfusion, she contracted Hepatitis B.
The young woman, who slept every night attached to a dialysis machine for nine hours, was now a candidate for a kidney transplant. Her doctors, however, feared that her hepatitis might become reactive and said she should receive injections of Hepatitis B Immunoglobulins.
Murphy explained to her that he did not manufacture anything, but promised to contact colleagues from Grifols, S.A., a major fractionator in Barcelona, Spain. "And then the wonderful chain of good people helping good people took over," Murphy wrote on his Web site. "I spoke with my long-time friend David Sorrell at Grifols' U.S. plant in North Carolina. He put me in touch with his colleague, Angel Almodovar, head of International Sales, who, in turn, contacted his Sales Manager in Mexico, Veronica Lopez, who is in the process of shipping the product from Barcelona."
The young woman received the product and is now waiting to undergo the life-transforming surgery.
Murphy said he shares in the "satisfaction and joy of making a difference in someone's life."
"In this business all our injectables go for critical care patients and you have to deal with the people you sell the medicine to," he said. It is this sense of connection that fuels his passion that never again will anyone die as a result of diseases transmitted through blood products. "Since 1986 not one person in the world has been infected with AIDS through the use of contaminated blood products," he said. Continued...
On his Web site, he noted that Grifols recently opened a new plasma testing laboratory in San Marcos, Tex., that will analyze millions of samples of human plasma annually before they are approved for processing into life-saving medicines for patients. "It demonstrates yet again the plasma industry's ethical and financial commitment to safety and commitment to the many critical-care patients who depend on these products," he wrote.
Now 68, an age when many are thinking of retirement, Murphy finds himself still happily engaged in his business. "I would like to think that I made a brilliant decision to get into this field," he said, "but I just muddled into it. The industry is wonderfully incestuous—once you are in it, you never leave. I enjoy doing this and I can make a living."
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Gotta find a way to resign this beast
Gotta find a way to resign this beast
Now there ate three 'Re-sign Kruger" threads.
Who wants to start a fourth one?
Given the Ravens cap situation, I don't think Kruger will be here next year.
i don't think the Ravens can afford to franchise any player because of the CAP hit
will let Reed and Williams walk (and maybe even Ellerbe) so they can find a way to sign Flacco and Kruger, draft a LT and S and sign a free agent LB
Ellerbe and Kruger must stay. Time to let Ed go.
A couple of years ago, when many were eager to declare Kruger a bust, I was reluctant to jump on that bandwagon, and I'm now reluctant to suddenly declare him a superstar. I hope somehow the Ravens are able to sign him back, but either way he would not be the first individual to play out of his mind in his contract year, then come back to normal after he signs. I hope he has a great career, and I hope it is here, but I'm not convinced.
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Despite numerous examples of intolerance and hatred at its events and multiple polls showing the group represents only a small minority of the populace, the noisy Tea Party movement continues to gain an unwarranted amount of media attention as it strives for respectability.
The Enquirer's top boss has told CityBeat that her connection to a major real estate development group was "overlooked" in a lengthy, front-page article about the organization that was published April 15.
Publisher Margaret Buchanan wrote in response to an email that she didn't influence the preparation, editing or placement of an article about the Cincinnati Center City Development Corp. (3CDC). Buchanan sits on 3CDC's executive committee, and is in charge of overseeing publicity and marketing efforts for the organization.
The Enquirer published a 1,900 word-plus article about 3CDC, lauding the group for its efforts to redevelop Over-the-Rhine despite the economic downturn. Buchanan's role with 3CDC wasn't mentioned, but she told CityBeat it has been disclosed in past articles and will be done again in the future.
Buchanan's response was sent the same day that CityBeat published a column criticizing the lack of disclosure, and questioning whether her role violates The Gannett Co.'s ethical guidelines for news-gathering.
Here's the full text of Buchanan's response:
Over several years, The Cincinnati Enquirer has fully covered the pro's and con's (sic) of 3CDC's development efforts in Over-the-Rhine for our readers and we are very proud of that coverage.
As publisher, I sit on 3CDC's executive committee — and did not influence any of the reporting on this issue. Our editor is completely responsible for all editorial decisions. Typically my participation on this committee is disclosed, although it was overlooked for the article that ran on Sunday, April 15. It will continue to be disclosed in the future.
Margaret Buchanan
A search using the ProQuest database of The Enquirer's archives found that the newspaper has published 481 articles and news briefs mentioning 3CDC since the group began its efforts in 2004. (Given how the database is organized, however, it's likely that some of the entries might be duplicative.)
Of the 481 entries, Buchanan was mentioned in 15 articles. That equates to about 1/32nd of the articles.
Most of the published mentions about Buchanan's ties to 3CDC weren't in articles about the group's retail and residential development projects. Rather, they mostly occurred in articles about 3CDC's efforts to move a homeless shelter away from Over-the-Rhine.
Also, one mention was in an article about the new School for Creative and Performing Arts, while another occurred in a piece marking the 10th anniversary of the police shooting death of Timothy Thomas.
Interestingly, most of the mentions occurred after 2010, when local blogger Jason Haap and CityBeat began publishing items about the lack of disclosure.
This week's Porkopolis column mentioned Gannett's ethics code, which includes such admonishments as "We will remain free of outside interests, investments or business relationships that may compromise the credibility of our news report," and "We will avoid potential conflicts of interest and eliminate inappropriate influence on content."
The code also states "When unavoidable personal or business interests could compromise the newspaper's credibility, such potential conflicts must be disclosed to one's superior and, if relevant, to readers."
In her email, Buchanan didn't address why these rules don't apply to her connection to 3CDC.
• The Enquirer discovered a foreign policy "expert" living silently among us for years. That's their word: "expert." He was outed on Monday's page 1 in a lavishly illustrated story about his taxpayer-paid travels. It's U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot. Face it, travel doesn't make anyone an expert. If it did, Rick Steves should be our next Secretary of State.
• Here we go again. Our Enquirer carrier is supposed to deliver the Enquirer seven days a week and the New York Times Monday-Saturday. Last Wednesday, the Enquirer arrived but the Times didn't. Times call center people in Iowa promised a replacement paper by 2 p.m. We're still waiting.
Thursday, there was no Times for the second day and, instead of a replacement Wednesday paper, the Enquirer carrier tossed a copy of the Wall Street Journal.
I can't invent this stuff. The WSJ is the only serious challenger facing the Times as a national daily.
Times people in Iowa promised a replacement Thursday paper. I've called so many times I can recite their script with them, including faux sincerity when apologizing for missed papers.
I also sent another note to the circulation VP at the Times, using the email address on the paper's website. (I couldn't find any such person or email in the online list of Enquirer contacts. No surprise.)
The Times circulation VP couldn't happy about paying to deliver the WSJ. An aide called, saying he'd do all he could by phone. Not much. Actually, nothing.
Friday, finally, the Enquirer carrier got it right: Enquirer and Times. That can't last. The lapses are not new.
• Questions are being raised about foreign research involving UC and Henry Heimlich. UC News Record reporter Benjamin Goldschmidt said, "The study tested whether or not a modified version of the Heimlich Maneuver could stop an acute asthma attack or treat asthma symptoms without contemporary treatment. The subjects' parents gave consent and the results reported no adverse effects, according to the study. The 67 children who participated were between the ages of six and 16."
Goldschmidt said Heimlich's son, Peter, is pressing the inquiry at UC and elsewhere. The younger Heimlich said that "Since at least 1996, based on dubious evidence, my father has claimed that the Heimlich Maneuver can stop asthma attacks, but asthma experts have expressed strong doubts . . . For example, in 2005, Loren Greenway, administrative director of respiratory and pulmonary medicine for Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, told a reporter that using the Heimlich maneuver in an acute asthmatic condition … could actually kill somebody."
Peter Heimlich said he targeted UC because Charles Pierce, adjunct professor of psychiatry at UC, was involved with applying for loans for the study in Barbados, an Atlantic nation between Haiti and Venezuela. He cited email correspondence in the Winkler Center's Heimlich Archives at UC.
The News Record quoted UC spokesman Greg Hand, who said the majority of Pierce's work is done at Children's Hospital, not with UC.
Previously, Peter Heimlich raised questions about his father's foreign experiments on malariotherapy, which seeks to prove that infecting people with malaria creates HIV-killing fevers.
• If you missed it, find last week's page 1 New York Post photo of a man about to be killed by a subway train.
Freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi said it is one of dozens he shot using his flash unsuccessfully to alert the driver about an emergency. A furor followed the Post's decision to print his photo.
Photographers frequently are faulted for not intervening in violent or deadly situations. So let me offer a couple comments.
First, Abbasi had no duty to try to lift Ki-Suck Han to safety. He says he wasn't close enough, the train was coming, he was unsure whether he could lift the man. Others, closer, did not try to help.
Whether photographers should set aside their cameras and get involved is a recurrent question. My answer is this: The greater the risk, the smaller the obligation to help. That's how we get images of wounded and dying soldiers, people trapped in or rescued from bombed buildings, prisoners being shot, stabbed, torture, etc.
That's what photographers do. They show us what's happening and in many situations, photographers would have been casualties if they'd try to intervene.
An older colleague at the Minneapolis Star said a woman who survived the collapse of a downtown hotel complained that he photographed her instead of helping. My colleague sent her an autographed copy of the photo, inscribed, I recall, "Deadlines are deadlines, lady."
Second, the Post wasn't wrong to publish the photo. I'm on the side of showing what happens when things go very, very wrong. War is ugly. So are traffic accidents, trench cave-ins and shootings here. Sanitizing does no service to readers/viewers who need to know what happened in a newsworthy event. Is the photo disturbing? Yes. But not so much as Ki-Suck Han's death at the hands of a stranger who pushed him on to the tracks.
• Photographers often spend their lives known for one news photo: Marines raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi, a young woman screaming over the body of a student at Kent State, a starving Sudanese child watched by a nearby vulture, a South Vietnamese officer executing a Viet Cong suspect with one shot to the head. Some images win famous prizes. Some photographers build careers on their moments. At least one, Kevin Carter, bedeviled by what he'd seen among Sudanese famine victims, killed himself. Abbasi will not easily shake the image of his image of that subway death.
• The Dec. 8 Economist online has a cautious update on the declining newspaper industry, including Gannett, owner of the Enquirer. Included is a look at the ways pay walls like that at the Enquirer are succeeding where online content long was free. At some papers, online income finally is seriously compensating for income from lost print ad revenue. But the Economist warns "Most important, a paper's content has to be worth paying for, which is bad news for (unnamed) papers that have cost-cut themselves into journalistic wraiths."
• I love a journalistic hoax. A top Chinese daily, People's Daily, reported that "The Onion has named North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un as the sexiest man alive for the year 2012."
Obviously unaware that the Onion is an American satirical website, Chinese editors copied it verbatim: "With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true. Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile."
• Radio pranks are nothing new. Years ago, when WNOP "Radio Free Newport" broadcast from an Ohio River barge, it would play recordings of prank telephone calls. One was to a railroad asking if the caller could use its engine roundhouse to play a huge Bobby Breen U.S. Steel record. Another asked a department store lingerie clerk about an Erin go Bragh, and I think, a Freudian slip. A supermarket customer insisted he properly assembled his "chicken parts kit" but it would only fly backwards. What should he do? The "Green Hornet" called a garage, supposedly servicing his Black Beauty car to ask when his Filipino houseboy Kato could pick it up. Finally, there was the soldier who called a McDonald's with a detailed order for an entire Army reserve or national guard unit. The laughs, of course, came as recipients of the calls struggled to make sense of the queries until they realized they'd been had.
• Sometimes, however, a clever media hoax goes sadly wrong. That's apparently what happened last week when Australian radio DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian fooled nurses at London's King Edward VII Hospital into thinking they were the Queen and Prince Charles. They wanted to know how Kate was handling her severe morning sickness.
In an early morning telephone call, Greig, impersonating the Queen, said: "Oh, hello there. Could I please speak to Kate please, my granddaughter?"
Thinking she was speaking to the Queen, immigrant nurse Jacintha Saldanha, on switchboard duty, replied; "Oh yes, just hold on ma'am."
She put the call through to the nurse in the Duchess' room. That nurse, so far unnamed, also thought she was speaking to the Queen and provided details about Kate's health.
The Sydney station, 2Day, heavily promoted its prank and broadcast it repeatedly. It became an international sensation; even the real Prince Charles was reported to have thought it funny.
Nurse Saldanha was found dead Friday, three days later. London police said they are not treating her death as suspicious. That means suicide or natural causes. British news media assumed suicide, suggesting Saldanha couldn't deal with humiliation after 2Day's recording of her embarrassing error went viral. The London Telegraph said "the two presenters who made the call will be questioned by Australian police following a request by Scotland Yard, which will gather evidence for an inquest."
• Elizabeth P. McIntosh was a Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter writing for women in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. Editors killed her story, saying her graphic description of civilian victims would be too upsetting. Last week, the Washington Post published the uncut story with McIntosh's recollections. It's vivid, fine reporting, the kind of writing we seldom see today.
• An inexplicable failure of journalism honesty landed NBC in court. George Zimmerman, who admits he shot and killed unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, sued the network. He says NBC editing of his original 911 call defamed him and caused intentional infliction of emotional distress.
NBC played the its reporter's edited tape three times. On it, Zimmerman says, "This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something. He looks black."
But on the unedited tape, Zimmerman says, "This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about."
Then the 911 dispatcher says, "OK and this guy — is he white, black or Hispanic."
Only then, in response, Zimmerman said, "He looks black."
Neither the dispatcher's question nor Zimmerman's answer was racist. If a police officer was to be dispatched, it was important what the potential suspect, Trayvon Martin, looked like.
• Here's a story I haven't seen as we edge up to the fiscal cliff: how many billions are spent on fully employed people whose wages are so low that employers transfer their costs to the rest of us? Medicaid, food stamps, etc. aren't limited to the unemployed or aged. And while they're at it, reporters can tell us how much a full-time worker must earn to equal all of their taxpayer-supported benefits.
• And
now, a birther alert. Ted Cruz, newly elected Hispanic and perfectly
conservative senator from Texas, says his Canadian birth doesn't
disqualify him from a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.
He told Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker, "The Constitution requires that
one be a natural-born citizen and my mother was a U.S. citizen when I
was born." He could have added that
Americans captured Canada 200 years ago in the War of 1812, assuring
Donald Trump of Cruz's eligibility. And hey! Americans then defeated
Santa Ana at the Alamo.
Enquirer reporters and editors should be satisfied with their initial tabloid effort. Today's inaugural edition — smaller and printed in Columbus — is a curious hybrid. It arrived on time. It feels and looks like a tabloid, but it reads like a familiar Enquirer rather than something exciting and new.
Bike to Work Week today kicked off its series of morning commuter stations offering free coffee and treats all week long in an effort to encourage residents to try cycling to work, meet fellow cyclists and learn about bike advocacy. The city was scheduled to announce an award for its Bike Program this morning at the Coffee Emporium bike commuter station on Central Parkway in Over-the-Rhine.
Find a schedule of Bike to Work Week morning and afternoon commuter stations here.
The Enquirer over the weekend checked in with another of its "in-depth" pieces, this one detailing the huge amounts of money energy companies will make once they're allowed to treat northeastern Ohio's land like they do Texas. The story accurately described the fracking process as "controversial," though it took the liberty of describing Carroll County as an "early winner" because 75 to 95 percent of its land is under lease to an oil or gas company. Here's a link to the weird slideshow-style presentation. And here's a sidebar on the issues surrounding fracking, which includes the following regarding the industry's oversight:
Fracking was exempted from the federal Safe Drinking Water Act under the Bush Administration, so it now falls under state jurisdiction. In Ohio, the Department of Natural Resources issues permits for all oil and gas wells, including fracking wells. The department also inspects the drilling of all wells in the state.
The New York Times came to Ohio to see how the good, working class folks feel about the president who has spent three-and-a-half years trying to help people like them during a recession he didn't start. Turns out many still won't vote for him because he's still black.
Madiera is a really nice suburb, and some residents plan to keep it that way by blocking developers from building luxury condos so "renters" can't move in and "alter the landscape of their charming suburb."
Ohio State University has released a plan to combat hate crimes in response to several incidents on its campus this spring. The "No Place to Hate" plan includes 24 recommendations including a public safety division "hate crime alert" line staffed by operators. The OSU campus reportedly had a mural of President Obama defaced and found spray-painted messages supporting the death of Trayvon Martin.
Good news from the AP's strangulation beat: "States cracking down on strangulation attempts."
Newsweek's May 21 cover shows Barack Obama with a rainbow-colored halo over his head and the headline, "The First Gay President."
National media are talking about HBO's Weight of the Nation, a four-part documentary detailing America's obesity epidemic. CityBeat's Jac Kern told y'all about it last week.
John Edwards' defense attorneys are reportedly basing a lot of their case on the definition of the word "The." That should go well.
A Russian
satellite has taken an awesome 121-megapixel photo of Earth.
The game of Cornhole has apparently spread from its modest beginnings in some West Sider's backyard all the way to the Northeast, thanks largely to a Fox News anchor who in 2005 took a set from his hometown back to New York and started teaching other people how to throw the beanbags at a hole in a piece of wood. The New York Times checks in with this report on the unfortunately named game. Now a bunch of mopes in Brooklyn are playing it, and it will probably be featured in a Kings of Leon video soon.
Hicks drove the mile and a quarter and arrived behind the first dozen police officers. She started taking photographs through her windshield and captured her image of a line of children being led away from the slaughter. "I'm conflicted," Hicks said about her photo. "I don't want people to be upset with me, and I do appreciate the journalists, especially, who have commented, saying 'We're just documenting the news.' It's harder when it's in your hometown and these are children we're gonna watch grow up, the ones who made it. I know people are gonna be upset, but at the same time I felt I was doing something important."
Fellow editor John Voket explained what was behind that image. "Police and school system have a protocol" for evacuation. "Children get into a conga line, shoulder to shoulder, and the only person that's allowed to keep their eyes open is the locomotive at the front of the line, usually an adult. And every other kid has to keep their eyes closed from the minute they were exiting the classroom to when they got about a couple hundred yards into the parking lot."
• Voket arrived about 20 minutes later and colleague Hicks "passed the baton" to him. Hicks also is a volunteer firefighter. The firehouse is next to the school. "I literally put on my firefighter gear . . . I was there as a firefighter probably for not even more than 20 minutes before my editor said he wanted me back in the office to work with him to coordinate coverage from there."
• Voket continued reporting, but "We operate a little differently because our job is to take care of the community so we were inside helping to comfort victims and trying to provide human support without necessarily making reporting the No. 1 priority. The publisher came down to comfort some of the families a little later in the day." R. Scudder Smith has been Bee publisher since 1973; he is the fourth member of his family to run The Bee since they founded it in 1877. The paper, which has a full-time editorial staff of eight, circulates to about two-thirds of the community of about 29,000.
• It was Friday and the weekly Bee front page was ready to print. It couldn't be changed. "We've been putting everything on our website," publisher Smith told AP.
Voket added that the traffic surge repeatedly crashed the website until the Bee acquired "an intermediary service to supersize our bandwidth . . . We got back up and running this (Saturday) morning." The staff used social media to spread information about school lockdowns, re-routed traffic, and grief counseling. "Facebook and Twitter accounts have been a lifeline to our community and it shows because 20 percent of the community are following us." The Bee also was "looking at doing a special extra to be on the newsstands Monday."
• For those of us outside Newtown, Conn., we can turn to the renewed duel over gun control. If it were a song, tired and familiar gun control lyrics would be among "Worst Hits Ever." It didn't take long for gun control advocates to embrace the Sandy Hook massacre and the bellicose NRA to opt for rare silence. Obama renewed his unredeemed calls for gun control although he and Mitt Romney dodged the issue in the just-ended campaign. It was a hornets' nest neither man opted to kick and reporters apparently were unable to raise with the candidates.
• After the Sandy Hook slaughter, fair and balanced Fox News banned discussion of gun control from the cable network. Maybe Fox News feared we really would decide if they really reported. New York magazine said the ban spotlights the "growing chasm between Rupert Murdoch and [Fox News president] Roger Ailes." Ailes reportedly is a gun enthusiast. Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., which owns Fox News, had tweeted a call for stricter gun control, imploring for "some bold leadership action" from Obama.
• Let me be churlish when everyone else is sympathizing with families, survivors and first responders. Slaughtering 20 children is awful, but reporters and editors are familiar with how badly Americans treat urban, suburban, small town and rural children every day. In Obama's Chicago and many other urban areas, gunfire is an omnipresent fact of childhood. Possibly one-fourth of all American children live in poverty as defined by federal guidelines. For these kids, federally funded school meals might be more than a complement to home meals. Health care for poor and malnourished children isn't much better than their educations. Medicaid is among the anti-poverty programs high on the GOP priorities for absolute cuts and/or reduced annual increases. And let's not even get into continuing coverage of physical and sexual child abuse, trafficking minors and lifelong handicaps from poor or nonexistent prenatal care or maternal drug and alcohol abuse.
• Only foolish or ignorant reporters credit pious assertions that legislation can prevent disturbed individuals from obtaining guns and killing as many people as they can. There are more than 310 million people in this country. Some are or will become seriously mentally disturbed and obtain one or more of the hundreds of millions of firearms Americans own. A Columbine or Sandy Hook could happen again any day.
• Focusing on the shooting victims rather than shooters might reduce any copycat effect. Stories and photos elevating killers to celebrity have been blamed for further rampages. Even though the killer never was identified, that was the inference drawn from Tylenol poisonings 30 years ago; copycats tried to poison Tylenol capsules. When coverage began to fade, so did copycat crimes.
• NRA leaders realized years ago that traditional (and valuable) Eddie Eagle gun safety comics and courses were insufficient to motivate and keep members and their dues. Fear and anger would be more effective. Real and imagined government controls became NRA's cause. Few modern American movements have been as durable and effective as the NRA.
• NRA is powerful because we are a democracy. It can mobilize more than 4 million members and fellow travelers as voters, donors and voices in the news media. Elected representatives who want to keep their jobs quite reasonably try to avoid the NRA's opposition. Gun control advocates evince nothing like this single-minded devotion to their cause.
• In 1994, the Clinton administration won a10-year limit on the sale of assault-style weapons and large capacity magazines for their ammunition. I went to a gun store in Hamilton to cover a rush to beat the ban. Chinese assault-style rifles and curved high-capacity magazines were selling as fast as staff could pry open crates. As I watched, the price rose $10 with each new crate: demand and supply. Men who talked to me said they were buying because of the imminent controls on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines. A few admitted fear of civil unrest or some undefined federal assault. Most said they wanted a military-style rifle for shooting targets or empty beer cans and this might be their last chance.That 10-year ban died in 2004 when Republicans owned all three branches of federal government and didn't seek renewal. However, recent killings that required assault-style weapons with large-capacity magazines might prompt reconsideration of the ban. Adam Lanza reportedly carried hundreds of rounds of ammunition in high-capacity magazines. No one knows why he didn't use them.
• Any gun control measure that's not DOA will have to respect millions of long guns — rifles and shotguns — used by hunters, farmers and others. That distinction is an important part of this story already handicapped by the paucity of journalists who hunt or otherwise own firearms.
• In addition to an unfamiliarity with firearms, partisan hyperbole also handicaps writing about guns and gun control. It can be hard to find neutral sources who share reporters' interest in accurate coverage. Stenographic reporting giving "both sides" isn't good enough; journalists must know enough to challenge obvious partisan misstatements. We are not obligated to report what we know to be untrue or to label it as such.
• Unfamiliarity with gun control cropped up in a recent Enquirer story about a failed armed robbery attempt inside a suburban Sunoco station. Employees with a handgun and a shotgun fatally wounded the would-be bandit. The Enquirer story said it was unclear whether the employees had conceal-carry licenses for those firearms. Unless someone somehow cloaked a shotgun's 18-28" barrel, no conceal/carry permit is required. Unless the other Sunoco clerk carried the pistol under his clothes, he didn't need a permit. Wearing it openly or storing it under the counter does not require a conceal/carry permit. So what was the point of that line in the story? Just because a cop might have said it doesn't mean the reporter had to share it. That's what I'm talking about.
• Missing in much gun control coverage is Congress' inability to craft sensible, workable bipartisan gun control specifics that can survive NRA opposition and Supreme Court scrutiny. Firearm confiscation is out of the question. So is universal registration which raises NRA-orchestrated fear of confiscation — by ATF, the UN or some other demon de jour — to hysteria. Moreover, the court affirmed an individual Second Amendment right to own guns in 2010 but it did not rule out federal, state or local regulations governing firearm use.
• Reporters faced with new rage over shootings should remind partisans that we have gun control already. Forty nine states issue conceal/carry permits but specify where those handguns may not be carried. Illinois — State No. 50 — is under court order to replace its ban with a conceal/carry permit system. Many if not most municipalities bar gun owners from firing their weapons within city limits with the exception of self-defense. States commonly limit when hunters can use rifles and/or shotguns and they can require a certain size bullet for large-game hunting. Landowners may bar hunters from their property during state-sanctioned hunting seasons.
There are federal limits on how short a "sawed off" shotgun or rifle barrel may be. There are laws limiting ownership of silencers and fully automatic machine guns and submachine guns. Federally licensed firearms dealers must run background checks on prospective buyers and turn away those who fail or won't comply. Dealers can deny convicted felons a gun under federal and many state laws. A legal purchaser may not buy a firearm for someone who would fail a federal background check. Mentally-ill customers can be turned away by dealers.
• Few of the roughly 12,000 Americans shot to death annually are killed with shot with shotguns or rifles. They're shot with pistols. So when gun control is promoted, reporters should press advocates to say what they mean: handguns.
• Before reporters share the lunacy of arming teachers, ask local cops how many rounds typically are fired from their handguns in an armed encounter . . . and how many of those bullets hit their target. Not many. It's very, very difficult for someone trained even at the level of police to accurately fire when adrenaline is pumping. The teacher might end up shooting more students than the intruder. Better to count on the low probability of an armed intrusion. Think about how rare this is. Awful when it happens, but very, very rare, even in communities where other shootings are far more frequent.


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CALDWELL COUNTY, Ky. (3/19/13) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has restricted traffic to one lane on KY 902 West of Fredonia in Caldwell County due to a sinkhole.
This is on KY 902 at mile point 0.9 west of Fredonia. This is between Mill Bluff Road and West Dycus Avenue, about a mile east of the Caldwell-Crittenden County Line.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has flaggers on site at this time to control traffic through the area. A track hoe is en route for possible repairs.
Engineers are still trying to determine the extent of required repairs.
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TORRINGTON >> Students at Torrington High School who are interested in pursuing a career in the medical field may soon have a better chance to study it before they graduate.
At Wednesday night's Board of Education Budget Subcommittee meeting, the implementation of a new Health and Technology program took one step forward when the committee unanimously voted for the new program to be reviewed by the full Board of Education.
The new Health and Technology course is part of the school district's Small Learning Communities, an effort to retain students and give them more career options after graduation. The course is designed to prepare students who are interested in pursuing a career in the medical field to take the Certified Nursing Assistant exam (CNA) at the end of the program. A total of 20 students at a time can take the new course, along with any health and technology electives, all in addition to their core courses such as math, science, history and English.
The School Improvement Subcommittee has been working out the details of the program since November, when Assistant Superintendent of Schools Susan Domanico first proposed the idea to the committee. At Wednesday night's budget meeting, Domanico presented the revised start-up costs with the most expensive option totaling $108,100 including supplies. She said $40,400 of that amount would be needed if the school hired two part-time qualified teachers.
"The CNA program will need to have certain instruction materials for the lab, including beds, scrubs and a stethoscope. To get anything started there's a price," Superintendent Cheryl Kloczko said.
However, the budget committee decided to go with a less expensive second option that involves contracting outside help, such as using resources from Northwest Connecticut Community College, which offers a similar program for CNAs. The projected cost for contracted services came to $79,100, with $25,400 of the cost for a certified instructor, who would teach the course at Torrington High School two periods a day.
"I personally think contracting out is a better way to go about it. It's (the program) is not affordable at all to do on our own," said Board of Education and Budget committee member Fiona Cappabianca.
Before the budget committee can officially finalize the numbers, the new course needs to be approved by the full Board of Education.
"The cost has to stay down," Cappabianca said. "It has to be what's in the best interest of 1,200 kids instead of 20 and the full board as to (decide) is it worth the cost?"
With the budget committee entering budget season, making decisions about the costs of new programs will not be a simple task. Continued...
"I can't begin to process a $300,000 (original estimated cost) program without knowing what budget season will bring and we know it will be a difficult budget season, and difficult choices to make," Cappabianca said. "But, we can't afford to keep our programs stagnant and continue loosing kids. We need to look for ways to do it that are affordable."
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hydraulic wet linesDoes anyone know if hydraulic wet lines can be added to a ih 2424
Re: hydraulic wet linesAssuming you are asking about auxiliary/remote valves, yes. They are listed in the parts catalog, which is about all I can tell you about them. The factory set-up probably required substitutions for several parts that are on the tractor without the remote valves, along with the added valves and plumbing. You would probably have to find a junk tractor that has the set-up. It appears that one from a 424 may be the same or very close.
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BATON ROUGE – Services for long-time attorney Victor Sachse, III will be Friday. He died Feb. 27 at age 81.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and a mineral law expert. Among his cases was winning a favorable ruling for the state in offshore mineral rights dispute with the federal government. He was a special law lecturer at LSU.
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WhiteLily wrote:My principal ruined my day yesterday. Her unprofessional actions yesterday have caused me to make a sad decision. I am tired of my hard work and dedication to the job going unappreciated/taken for granted. I don't need more than a simple "thank you" but to do what she did yesterday is the final straw.
What a way to end the year.
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Hey all, been looking for a group around the Waterville or Augusta area in good ol' Maine to play with. Its been pretty rough finding players, and not many of my friends are big fans of this game. (Which is dissapointing).
Its hard to get Magic: The Gathering players into it, since they are used to a much faster paced game with 'more player interaction'. I own all the sets so far, so if anyone wishes to play, but doesn't have them all, no fear on that.
There are two major locations I go to play card games in general. Spellbound in Waterville, or Game-On Cafe in Augusta! If anyone is close by, and wants to possibly meet up sometime to play a mansion or two, post up here, or hit me up via Messages!
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Avery Dallas "Jim" Haynes, 80, passed away Sunday, January 13, 2013 at Yadkin Nursing Care Center. He was born September 7, 1932 in Yadkin County to the late Avery Jones Haynes and Bertha Mae Renegar Haynes.
He was a lifelong member of Sandy Springs Baptist Church. Avery enjoyed farming and was a charter member of Lone Hickory Volunteer Fire Department. His greatest loves were Joyce McCoy, tractors, baseball, NASCAR racing and his grandsons.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Nina Joyce McCoy Haynes that passed away January 17, 1999; sister, Laura Mae Ireland; brother, Leonard Lee Haynes.
Surviving are his daughter, Lawanda (Eugene) Brown; grandsons, Dallas Eli Brown, Carter Ellis Brown; sister-in-law, Louise Pardue; brother-in-law, Ray Ireland.
His funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at Sandy Springs Baptist Church by the Rev. David Kiser, Rev. Brian Poindexter, and Rev. Howard Wagoner. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at Gentry Family Funeral Service in Yadkinville.
Memorials can be made to Sandy Springs Baptist Brotherhood Association, c/o Jimmy Steelman, 3024 Sandy Springs Road, Harmony, NC 28634.
Gentry Family Funeral Service in Yadkinville is serving the Haynes family. Online condolences can be made at www.gentryfuneralservice.com.


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McCallumĀBlackwood Folk Pipes - Smallpipes in the Key of "A"
Blackwood Folk Pipes look and sound beautiful, withĀwood and metal mounts, and a premium setup.ĀThe Blackwood adds warmth and depth to the already enjoyable FolkĀPipe sound, which results fromĀexperienced engineering,Āa cane chanter reed, andĀquality syntheticĀdrone reeds. The pipe bag has a zipper, allowing easy access to the complete moisture control system and drone valves inside.ĀYou'll have all the components you need to customize the setup to your playing style. For instance, you could use the drone valves without the drone moisture control tubes.ĀThe pipes come with a tailored black cover and matching drone cords. These pipes do require more gentle treatment than the Poly version becauseĀthe drones are slender and wood.ĀMade in Scotland.ĀĀ
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*Note: The cane chanter reed is delicate, and there is not much clearance in the chanter stock. You'll want to take extreme care when removing and inserting the chanter; it would be easy to knick the corners, and the reed is rather expensive to replace.
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Tel 015394 42817
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West Vale Country House is beautifully situated in the heart of Beatrix Potter Country, whose house Hilltop is a few minutes walk away and overlooks the village of Sawrey, Grizedale Forest and The Old Man of Coniston beyond. The area is an ideal spot from which to explore the Lakes, tarns, hills, villages and shops. West Vale provides 5-star accommodation in individually designed rooms with your every comfort in mind and with all the little extras discerning travellers expect.
Breakfast is served in our dining room offering a buffet table from which to choose freshly cut fruit compote, cereals, juices and home made preserves followed by the famous West Vale Cumbrian breakfast or if you prefer, choose from our a la carte breakfast menu.
Use of leisure facilities at the nearby 4-star Swan Hotel for visitors staying 2 or more nights is a real delight. These are just a taste of the treasures on offer at this beautifully situated hotel & restaurant.
West Vale Country House is a non-smoking establishment.
Children welcome from age 12.
see location on Google maps. Map reference: SD 377955 Lat: 54.35141 Long: -2.95892
From the M6 jct 36, take A591 to Windermere and Ambleside. Take B5286 from Ambleside to Hawkshead. Take left onto B5285 for Sawrey and car ferry across the lake. West Vale Country House is the first house on the right in Far Sawrey
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- American Express accepted
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- Gay/lesbian friendly
- Single sex groups welcomed
- Fishing
- Golf available (onsite or nearby)
- Pony trekking/horse-riding
- Shooting
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- Central heating
- Dogs/pets NOT accepted
- Ironing facilities
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- Lounge for residents' use
- Real log/coal fires
- Totally non-smoking
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- Children welcome
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- Special diets available
- Vegetarian diet available
- Electric shaver points
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Children welcome from age 12.
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- Has steps and no ramp
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The decision to fire Mike Brown early this season as Los Angeles Lakers coach and the offseason acquisitions of center Dwight Howard and guard Steve Nash were prompted by the urgency of trying to win a championship for owner Jerry Buss.
With Buss' health deteriorating, Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said there was a feeling that the moves were necessary to help bring Buss an 11th NBA title.
"When we made the changes we made in the offseason, we really did it with a two- or maybe even a three-year window, probably a two-year window to do our best and win a championship," Kupchak told CBS' Eye on Basketball. "And clearly we knew Dr. Buss was not in great health."
The Lakers were 1-4 when Brown was fired and later replaced by Mike D'Antoni.
"If we would've waited another month, we could've turned it around, or we could've been 2-12," Kupchak said. "We just didn't want to wait. And that's because we feel our best chance to win is this year and next year."
Buss died earlier this month after a long battle with cancer.