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Nationals release Chris Young
Viera, FL – The Washington Nationals granted pitcher Chris Young his unconditional release Tuesday after informing the veteran he would not make the team's Opening Day roster.
Young, who received a non-roster invite from the Nationals last month, had an opt-out clause in his contract that he intended to exercise had he not broken camp with the club.
The 33-year-old went 1-0 with a 2.25 earned run average in four Grapefruit League starts with the Nationals, but the defending National League East champions already have their five-man rotation set with Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez, Jordan Zimmermann, Dan Haren and Ross Detwiler.
Young posted a 4-9 record with a 4.15 ERA in 20 starts for the New York Mets in 2012 and owns a 53-43 mark with a 3.79 ERA over 159 career outings with Texas, San Diego and the Mets.


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It's time for Republicans to take responsibility as sitting members of Congress to ensure the basic functioning of our government. And that means working to restore funding to the federal government by immediately passing the Senate's routine and uncontroversial government funding bill, which already incorporates cuts demanded by Republicans.
Republicans must stop holding our entire economy hostage to their irresponsible demands.
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The way our government works shouldn't be dictated by a small minority of irresponsible extremists in Congress who are willing to blow up our economy in order to get their way.
When faced with an...
The way our government works shouldn't be dictated by a small minority of irresponsible extremists in Congress who are willing to blow up our economy in order to get their way.
When faced with an urgent need to fund the federal government to avoid a shutdown, House Republicans refused to simply extend governmental funding at current levels.
Instead, they gleefully took the entire economy hostage by insisting on a budget bill that contained a grab-bag of ideological demands and poison pills wholly unrelated to government spending. And they did this knowing that the Senate would refuse their ideologically driven demands.
We need to make sure Republican leaders hear Americans who want them to stop holding the economy hostage to their extremist ideology.
In essence, Republicans have been playing a high-stakes game of chicken with our country's well-being, hoping that Democrats blinked first and caved to their unreasonable demands.
After already compromising once by accepting painful budget cuts, the Senate Democrats thankfully refused to go along with further Republican hostage-taking, which would have only encouraged Republicans to do the same thing all over again when we face the need to raise the debt ceiling in a few short weeks.
So now, we find ourselves in a government shutdown that Republicans have caused, which will deal a body blow to our already-struggling economy and prevent the basic functioning of government services that help already-struggling members of our society. For example:
800,000 government employees will be furloughed, and a million more will be forced to continue working without pay.
Every national park and monument -- from Yosemite to the Statue of Liberty -- will be closed until the shutdown ends.
And neighboring small businesses that rely on those visitors will face immediate hardship.
Social Security will be unable to process new disability claims in a timely manner.
The supplemental food assistance program for women, infants and children (WIC) could cease functioning.
Allowing this to happen because the Senate and the president refuse to agree to policies the American people soundly rejected at the ballot box is a totally unacceptable abdication of the Republicans' responsibility to ensure the basic functioning of government.
Sign this petition to Republican leaders in the House today. Tell them to stop holding the economy hostage.
Thank you for speaking out.
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Reporters Addicted to Tax Hikes
Page One
In his first televised speech to the
nation on September 5, President Bush announced his plan to fight a war
on drugs. To his Democratic opponents, the war is not over changing
people's behavior, it's over money, or the perceived lack of it. Two
Democrats leading their party on the issue, Senator Joe Biden and
Congressman Charles Rangel, immediately demanded taxes and spending be
increased. A fair number of reporters agreed.
"One Democratic veteran of the
budget wars insists taxes are the only answer," ABC's Cokie Roberts
preceded a matching comment from former Democratic Rep. James Jones on
the September 3 World News Sunday. Roberts noted that
"Republican strategists reject that argument," but, she
wondered, "how much can Peter be robbed to pay Paul?"
On the CBS Evening News the
night of Bush's address, correspondent Bob Schieffer reported:
"That's what you hear all over the country, that it will take more
than just good intentions or even first-class treatment
facilities...it's going to take money, a lot of it for a long
time." After interviewing Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, who said
Bush's plan is "a real joke in terms of the resources that have
been offered," Schieffer concluded: "That's very much the
feeling here" on Capitol Hill. "Until Congress gets a lot more
detail on just how the President intends to pay for all this, there will
be considerable doubt here as to just how serious the administration
really is." The problem is "finding the money for everything
on the congressional agenda this year, and doing it without raising
taxes," Schieffer worried the next night.
On a CBS News special report following
the President's address, Lesley Stahl directly contradicted Bush.
"The President says the issue is not money, but in fact it is
money, and everything in this plan is constrained by the fact that one,
the President does not want to ask for new taxes, and two, we're working
under the Gramm-Rudman budget restrictions. There just isn't
In Time's September 11 issue,
Senior Editor George Church charged that "the amount he proposes to
spend is almost laughably inadequate." Church added: "The big
joke is that Bush proposes to do all this with pitifully little
money...it falls far, far short of what a true war on drugs would
But the fight is not really about a drug
war. As ABC's Brit Hume succinctly explained on September 6: "The
fight's not really about drug policy, it's about taxes. Congressional
Democrats want the President to agree to raising them so they can spend
them on the drug war, and a lot of other things."
Revolving Door
Palestinian Connection.
A Washington Post profile story of Jo Franklin-Trout, producer
of the controversial pro-Palestinian documentary Days of Rage
carried by most PBS affiliates in early September, revealed she wrote
speeches briefly for Hubert Humphrey's 1968 presidential campaign.
Franklin-Trout signed onto the staff of the then titled MacNeil/Lehrer
Report in 1975, where she remained a producer until 1980.
More Than One on Prime Time.
Diane Sawyer, co-host of Prime Time Live, spent her days after
college as a Press Assistant in the Nixon White House. But Sawyer is not
the only politically experienced hand aboard ABC's new Thursday night
show. Until April, reportorial producer Sheila Hershow was an
investigator for the House Government Operations Sub-Committee on
Government Activities and Transportation chaired by liberal
Congresswoman Cardiss Collins (D-Illinois). From 1983 to 1986 Hershow
worked for CNN as a special assignment reporter.
Nightline's Political
Line. Still on Prime Time Live, ABC News President
Roone Arledge chose Nightline Executive Producer Rick Kaplan to
run the new program. To take over Nightline, Arledge chose
Dorrance Smith, Executive Producer of This Week with David Brinkley.
Before joining ABC News in 1977, Smith worked in President Gerald Ford's
White House advance office. Balancing things out, Nightline's
number two slot is filled by Senior Producer Deborah Leff, Director of
Public Affairs for the Federal Trade Commission during Carter's later
Three on the Hill. Two
liberal Senators and a liberal Representative have more than ideology in
common. They also have reporters as their new press Secretaries. Deborah
Matthews, now working for Senator Wyche Fowler (D-Georgia), was one of
CNN's original employees as an assignment editor back in 1980. She then
spent several years in similar positions with Atlanta's NBC affiliate
WXIA-TV, and ABC affiliate WSB-TV before switching to print. For the
past year she's been an Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Elizabeth Rose, now toiling for Senator
Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia), was most recently the Dukakis
campaign's Wisconsin Press Secretary. Before joining Congressman Tom
Downey's office in 1987, the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call
reported, Rose worked as an editorial associate for the Public
Broadcasting Service.
Congressman Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts)
has hired San Francisco Examiner Washington correspondent Mike
Connolly to handle press for his personal office and the Energy and
Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, chaired by
Markey. By the time Connolly ended an eight year stint with the Gannett
News Service in 1984, he had risen to White House correspondent.
Janet Cooke Award
The ABC's Of Day
David Blankenhorn, President of the
non-partisan Institute for American values, dispels one of the ever
growing day care crisis myths espoused by the media this way: "To
paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the traditional family
have been greatly exaggerated."
Karen Geers, Congressional Liaison
for the largest women's group in the U.S., Concerned Women for America,
has worked long hours in support of the Toddler Tax Credit bill. In her
view, it is the fairest proposal: "American families do not need a
new national child care program. They need tax relief."
The Heritage Foundation's Robert
Rector agrees. His ideas were the driving force behind the Toddler bill
sponsored by Reps. Clyde Holloway (R-LA) and Richard Schulze (R-PA). The
plan is similar to one backed by President Bush. Rector notes:
"Despite what the media have reported, the majority of Americans
are happy with their day care situation and support a Bush-type
If you're surprised to hear an
alternative exists to the Democratic party-backed Act for Better Child
Care (ABC), in a way you should be. By distorting and manipulating the
facts, the media have lobbied hard for the ABC bill, which would
establish a system of federally-subsidized, secular day care centers.
Consequently, other plans have been attacked and supporters of
alternatives ignored.
To show just how far much of the media
have gone in support of ABC, look at the July 31 Good Morning
America (GMA) hour-long focus on the status of American
day care, the winner of this month's Janet Cooke Award. In addition to
co-host Joan Lunden, GMA brought on the following to perpetuate
several myths associated with day care in America:
-- T. Berry Brazelton, Pediatrician,
Harvard University.
-- Rhae Perlman, star of NBC sitcom Cheers.
-- Representative Patricia Schroeder,
-- Gail Christopher, Director, Family
Resource Coalition.
No alternative voice appeared at anytime
during the hour. Blankenhorn, Geers, and Rector all told MediaWatch
they would have been happy to appear if asked. In an effort to counter
the myths, MediaWatch asked these three
experts to react to the program. Here's a sampling of the Myths
furthered by GMA and the Facts on day care in America.
Myth #1: There's A Crisis In Day
Lunden: "I don't
know if [Americans] truly understand what a national crisis it is. Let's
talk about what are the dangers if things just stay status quo and we
don't do something... It's kind of become a political football now to
get this ball rolling as far as a national day care system...
"Earlier this year in a Harris poll,
parents with children under age six were asked how the system of child
care was working in America. Well, only 8 percent could say it was doing
very well...
"The opinion polls show that, I
think it's by three to one, people want some kind of regulations to come
in and try to solve this problems and yet we still don't have any kind
of policy."
Perlman: "The
reality is that too many children spend everyday in overcrowded,
unlicensed homes where the television serves as teacher and where a
baby's cry often goes unanswered."
Fact #1: There Is No Crisis But
There Are Things We Can Do. If Rector had appeared on GMA,
he would have noted Lunden twisted the Harris poll numbers: "The
entire poll was misrepresented. The majority of the people in the Harris
poll were mildly or strongly satisfied with their day care. The media
have distorted perceptions. Other polls, as well, show in individual
circumstances, Americans are happy with their day care choice."
He would have pointed out that polls show
parents least prefer the secular day care centers that the ABC bill
would fund and expand. Less than one in ten American families say it is
their first choice. Nine of ten children are still cared for by parents,
relatives, or in other informal environments.
Myth #2: The Traditional Family
Is Largely Extinct.
Lunden: "Today,
two-thirds of all mothers spend their time working outside the home...
Nine million pre-schoolers [are] spending their days in care outside
their homes because their parents must go out to work."
Fact #2: The Traditional Family
Is Largely Intact. Though not a conservative, Blankenhorn would
have come down hard on the media: "The notion that traditional
families are anachronistic and no longer exist unfortunately has become
a governing theme in the media's coverage of family issue. There is a
trend towards maternal employment, but the idea that the traditional
family of homemaker mother and breadwinner father is extinct is simply
Blankenhorn and Rector would have Census
Bureau statistics to disprove Lunden's contention that two thirds of
mothers are working. The figures show only 29 percent of mothers with
pre-school age children work full-time. 17 percent work part-time and 54
percent do not work at all.
How did Lunden and GMA come up
with such outrageous statistics? Blankenhorn would have explained:
"They boost the number of 'working' families by merging full time
and part-time maternal employment despite basic differences between the
two types of employment, which relate directly to child rearing and
family." The statistics used also bring in non-child families and
newlyweds to distort the picture further.
Myth #3; The ABC Bill Is The
Lunden: "Of course,
it's something where the federal government is going to have to become
involved. Where is the ABC bill at this point?"
Schroeder: "This is
where people out there can really help us. You've got two things. You've
got the President saying he's just going to give a tax deduction to
people... It doesn't do anything about child care. [ABC} deals with the
child development, the quality, all the things we're talking about... We
ought to do both and even more than that. So if people will really start
helping us, talking to their elected leaders about this I think we can
see some action."
Fact #3: ABC Would Not Help. It
Would Hurt The Majority of American Families. The ABC bill
would mean increasing the tax burden on those who can least afford it.
Geers would have labeled it discriminatory: "Traditional families
are making the financial sacrifice of a second income. They make fifty
percent less than two income earners. Funding a national day care system
would force these families to pay for others. We support the Toddler Tax
bill because 9 out of 10 families would benefit. Polls show the majority
of mothers would rather be home if they could afford to. Tax relief,
especially for the lower income families, would allow them to stay at
home or choose the day care they wish."
Rector explained the Toddler Tax Credit
bill would abolish the current dependent care credit and offer parents
an all-purpose tax credit for day care for each child under age 7.
Whether a mother worked or wished to stay home raise her child, the
family could receive a tax break. The credit could be about $1,000 for
those earning up to $20,000, with the credit dropping gradually and
ending when the family's income hits $50,000.
asked GMA Publicist Cathy Rehl if anyone would talk about why
no alternative day care measure were featured. She responded: "We
have five minute segments. We don't have large chunks of time to be able
to do things." No producer responded to request.
At one point in the program, substitute
co-host Morton Dean remarked to Lunden that the child care debate is of
concern to all: "No matter what the income of a woman. And that's
something you have to be concerned about. You're a working mother with
young children." Lunden's response: "Absolutely, you
bet." Given Lunden's income, ABC might have to cut her $1 million
salary before she really understands what the average American family
goes through. Don't hold your breath in either case."
"They're starting the happen: plant closings, worker layoffs,"
reporter Ray Brady ominously began the July 27 CBS Evening News.
Brady droned on with more bad news, noting, "consumers have cut
back on their spending, another factor hitting the economy by slowing up
housing and driving autos into a slump." And what did these trends
reflect? A government report pegging GNP growth at a relatively low 1.7
But on August 29, the revised government
figure showed GNP actually grew at a healthy 2.7 percent clip. CBS
anchor Bob Schieffer read the news as the ninth story of the night. The
reasons behind the growth: consumer spending way up, new home sales up
over 14 percent. By September, auto sales had jumped 22 percent. Neither
Brady nor CBS bothered to tell viewers any of this.
Washington's pack journalism has turned into pack avoidance over the
Democrats' latest ethical embarrassment, the male-prostitution scandal
of Rep. Barney Frank. Broken wide open by The Washington Times
on August 25, most of the media provided only obligatory coverage in the
scandal's first few days, then let the matter drop.
The Washington Times has led the
pack in uncovering the seamy details in the day-to-day coverage.
Washington scandals usually rate in The Washington Post when
the subjects are conservative (a la Meese). Meanwhile, the Post,
the master of page one political warfare, could muster only seven
stories over the subsequent three weeks, most buried on inside pages.
Only four stories each appeared in the Los Angeles Times and The
New York Times, "the newspaper of record." In fact, the Post
and the Times, the networks' favorite papers, did not do
one news story on Frank in September until the 12th, when the
House ethics committee announced it would investigate.
The three networks were even less
interested, leaving a vacuum in evening news coverage from August 26 to
September 12, when CBS and NBC (but not ABC) mentioned the ethics
committee decision in brief anchor reads. But the prize goes to the
Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, which completely
ignored the Frank scandal until it finally ran a news story on September
When former White House Political Director Lyn Nofziger was convicted of
violating a federal ethics law and sentenced to prison in 1988, Time
found it newsworthy. When his conviction was overturned in June, Time
didn't. Only after an angry letter from Nofziger in which he asked,
"Shouldn't newsmagazines also have a code of ethics?," did Time
respond. In its July 31 Letters To the Editor section, Time
conceded, "The answer is yes. Mr. Nofziger's point is well taken,
and we apologize."
DISARMAMENT RACE. The
Defense Department recently experienced snafus in testing the B-2 Bomber
and Trident II missile, prompting Newsweek to gleefully
proclaim the score, "Pentagon: 0, Glasnost: 1." In an August
28 article, General Editor Elaine Salholz and Washington reporter
Douglas Waller, a former aide to Sen. William Proxmire, argued
"that distaste" for defense spending "has only
intensified with the spread of glasnost fever."
"Some day soon," they noted
wistfully, "budget deficit woes may converge with international
gamesmanship, putting a crimp in some of the best-loved programs of the
Reagan defense buildup." Bolstering their point with quotes from
liberals Gordon Adams of the Defense Budget Project and John Pike and
Thomas Longstreth of the Federation of American Scientists, the two
reporters asserted that troubled weapons may be too costly and
unnecessary since Gorbachev has "undercut the rationale for the
nuclear buildup."
Only one unnamed Navy spokesman got an
opportunity to defend the Trident II. Newsweek concluded,
"The score at the weekend: two down for the Pentagon, one up for
Why does the U.S. harbor such hostility toward the Soviet Union? Could
it be mass oppression, death camps, tanks in the streets of foreign
capitals? Naah. After consulting psychologists, Newsweek has
come up with a novel reason: "When a child observed at play
stumbles and hurts herself, she immediately accuses her teddy bear, as
if it were the bear who tripped her. If she is scolded for misbehaving,
she turns and scolds her doll. In infancy, we are just beginning to
develop a sense of where we are and where others begin. Unable to
tolerate the 'unpleasurable' parts of ourselves, we 'externalize' them
onto others. Although our attitudes mature as we age, we never quite
outgrow this self-versus-other mindset," Senior Writer David Gelman
explained in the August 28 edition.
Gelman suggests anti-communism is
something some people never outgrow. "Human beings do love to hate.
Having enemies fulfills an important human need, as evidenced by
children forming rival packs in a playground or nations stockpiling
nuclear weapons." te Gelman concluded: "In the long run,
indeed, the hope for a global glasnost may depend on how much the adults
who run nations can surrender their childhood need to hate." MediaWatch
did not make this up.
Psychologists could better investigate the journalistic split
personality at The Wall Street Journal: conservative editorial
page staff on one side of the brain, conventional liberal news reporters
on the other. Journal reporters held up their end of the
psychosis with Gerald Seib and Kenneth Bacon's August 17 report,
headlined "Right-Wing Zealots Still Wield Power Over Bush
Appointees" and "Nomination of Robert Fiske, Hailed by Most,
Is Victim of Conservative Activists."
Seib and Bacon wrote an entire story on
rejected Bush nominees based only on Fiske and the pro-life campaign
against Health and Human Services nominee Robert Fulton, who they
asserted was dropped "on grounds that were tenuous at best."
As chairman of the American Bar Association's judicial nominations
panel, Fiske helped sandbag conservative nominees by sending their names
to liberal lobbying groups before the ABA made recommendations.
The two reporters failed to recognize how
ironic it sounded to assert that "Mr. Fiske's experience is a case
study of how single-minded political activists can distort Washington's
nomination-and-confirmation process." The Journal
reporters made no mention of Robert Bork or of Bill Lucas, certainly no
less the victims of distorted confirmation processes, whose hardiest
defenders were--the Journal's editorial page staff.
The environment is one of the hottest topics on the liberal agenda, it's
also at the top of ABC's "American Agenda." On July 25, Ned
Potter traveled to Camel's Hump Mountain in Vermont to illustrate the
dire need for federal action. Potter asserted a comparison of pictures
from 1963 and the present revealed that "40 percent of the trees
were dead." Potter blamed the devastation on the fact "clouds
that blow in here carry sulfur, lead and more." In early August,
however, Yale University tree expert Tom Siccama told syndicated
columnist Warren Brookes the problem arose from a "very severe
drought followed by an especially killing winter" in 1962.
Potter also contended: "Doctors
think 50,000 Americans a year die prematurely because of the fumes that
cause acid rain." According to Brookes, "the 50,000 figure
came from one extreme theoretical estimate in an analysis where half the
experts estimated zero health effects" from the sulfur dioxide
emissions that create acid rain. Nonetheless, Potter insisted this
specious figure demonstrates "why a new Clean Air Bill is so
NETWORK. On August 1, CNN joined forces with
environmental extremists by airing Climate in Crisis. Narrated
by Headline News anchor Don Harrison, the show spent an hour presenting
apocalyptic visions of an uncertain future in an attempt to popularize
the increasingly discredited global warming theory. Harrison asserted:
"People across the world will be chased from places they call home
as the thermometer rises. Sea levels may climb more than three feet over
the next 50 or 60 years...that's enough to wipe out an entire
nation." Harrison claimed the Maldives are "the world's first
endangered nation" and threatened "a tidal wave of greenhouse
refugees." At the same time, however, Harrison warned of a
"rapid increase" in temperatures turning "farm into
Harrison proclaimed that "solutions
will require major shifts in economies and lifestyles...Citizens of
affluent nations like the United States are not likely to accept big
cuts in their standard of living. But if dramatic action isn't taken,
the crazy summer of '88 may seem moderate when compared to the turbulent
weather that's likely to follow." Forgotten were the record cold
temperatures in Alaska the following winter. Harrison urged viewers to
"push our leaders for policies that are more environmentally sound.
If we fail to act, there may be hell to pay in a hotter world."
Critics of global warming theory were completely absent from the
special. Summing up the show Harrison declared, "Global warming is
not a fact, just a widely held theory. The problem is if man waits for
proof, it may be too late."
MORE MEDIA $ FOR ABORTION. The
Cowles Media Foundation recently came under fire from Minnesota Citizens
Concerned for Life (MCCL). Cowles, which owns the Minneapolis Star
Tribune, was embarrassed by a brief story in the paper's July 15
edition in which "The Cowles Media Foundation and the Minneapolis Star
Tribune" jointly announced the foundation's half-million
dollar grant budget, dominated by a $200,000 grant to Planned
Jan Schwichtenberg, contributions
coordinator for the foundation, told the Twin Cities Reader
that the Star Tribune item was inaccurate, claiming the
foundation is totally separate from the newspaper. But MCCL points to
the Star Tribune's proclamation of support as indicative of the
liberal paper's pro-abortion bias.
Cowles joins the foundations of the New
York Times, Gannett Newspapers, and Times Mirror (owner of the Los
Angeles Times) in sending thousands of corporate dollars to Planned
Parenthood, and not to pro-life groups.
ELECTION SELECTION. If
you rely on the CBS Evening News, you'd never know about
Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's victory in a special election for the
seat of the late Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper. CBS felt the race
was important enough to justify a story by Eric Engberg three days
before the August 29 vote,but didn't mention the GOP victory when it
happened. But back in March, only CBS reported the Democratic victory to
fill the Republican House seat Dan Coats left to succeed Dan Quayle in
the Senate.
POLL WITH A GOAL. When Time
ran its July 17 story "7 Deadly Days" profiling 464
Americans killed by guns during one week in May, it included a poll for
readers to mail in. Time conducted a unscientific, non-random
sampling, loaded the questions and incorrectly identified the results.
Under the headline "A Vote for Regulation," Time
claimed 88 percent of readers who responded "support additional
regulation" of firearms. But Time only asked whether
readers supported waiting periods, registration and mandatory safety
training. Such policies cannot be called "additional
regulations," since these provisions are presently in effect in
many states, and the vast range of "additional regulation"
includes far more extreme measures (such as confiscation of all
firearms) that very few readers would support.
Time's sloppy and lopsided poll
sharply contrasts with the results of scientific polls. A study
commissioned by the Justice Department found that 78 percent of those
polled agreed that "Gun control laws affect only law-abiding
citizens, criminals will always be able to find guns." When asked
about the level of gun legislation, 13 percent thought there were too
many laws and 41 percent thought there were about the right amount. So
much for one of Time's current canned letters to readers
insisting that the objective of Time's "interpretive
reporting" is "to inform rather than to sway."
ABORTING COVERAGE. Since
the Supreme Court allowed states to limit abortions, media coverage of
special elections has emphasized winning pro-abortion candidates and
ignored winning pro-life candidates. On August 8, for example, when
Tricia Hunter, the pro-abortion candidate, won a Republican primary for
a state Assembly seat in California, the ABC, NBC, and CBS evening
newscasts reported the outcome. The Washington Post and New
York Times both ran stories and the USA Today headline
read: "California's win may be bellwether." The same day,
right to life Republican Albert Lipscomb won a state representative seat
in Alabama, but the networks, the Post and Times all
ignored his victory. Only USA Today even bothered to mention
the pro-lifer's victory in Alabama.
CHUNG'S CHOICES. On
Sunday, August 13, Evening News anchor Connie Chung announced
CBS would examine "alternatives to abortion." But in
presenting two alternatives, CBS managed to criticize pro-lifers both
times: first for impeding progress, then for being unrealistic.
The first story dealt with contraception.
Chung featured three pro-contraceptive spokesmen, including one from the
Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research project of pro-choice lobby
Planned Parenthood. Only one "anti-abortionist" spoke. Chung
never explained the chief objection of many pro-lifers to some kinds of
contraceptive devices: IUDs and many birth control pills induce early
abortion. Instead, Chung asserted "contraception should...reduce
the need for abortions," and complained "support for basic
contraceptive research, funded by the government, is drying up, partly
because of pressure from the pro-life lobby." The result, said
Chung, is that "experts believe that moving away from this research
causes the U.S. to lag further behind" other countries.
Correspondent Christine Negroni followed
with a report on a pro-life alternative, a home for unwed mothers, where
counselors encourage abstinence from sex until marriage. But Negroni was
quick to add: "Critics charge by teaching religion instead of birth
control, maternity homes...don't really address the problem." Which
"critic" did Negroni feature? Planned Parenthood's Faye
Reporters Write
Left, Not Right
Faced with the recent resignation of
Michael Kinsley as Editor of The New Republic, Published Martin
Peretz considered replacing him with Newsweek's Washington
Bureau Chief, Evan Thomas. He could have been thinking of returning a
favor: a few years ago, Newsweek needed a Washington Bureau
Chief and hired Morton Kondracke from The New Republic. When Mother
Jones needed an Editor in 1987, they hired Douglas Foster, who
developed stories for 60 Minutes under the aegis of the
left-wing Center for Investigative reporting. The Progressive
has former CBS reporter and current National Public Radio (NPR)
commentator Daniel Schorr sitting on its editorial advisory board. When The
New Republic was looking for a regular columnist on "Science
and Society," they settled on NBC's Robert Bazell.
With this kind of networking in effect
between the mainstream media and liberal opinion magazines, does it
follow that more freelance articles by major journalists get published
in liberal rather than conservative opinion magazines?
A MediaWatch
Study has determined that news reporters overwhelmingly prefer
contributing to liberal opinion journals, writing 315 articles in the
last 42 months, compared to 22 in conservative ones. In other words,
reporters wrote 15 times as many articles for liberal magazines than
they did for conservative ones.
To capture the freelancing record, MediaWatch
analysts looked at three and a half years of magazine articles, from
January 1986 to the end of June 1989. On the liberal side, we examined The
New Republic, The Nation, the Progressive, Ms., Mother Jones, Dissent,
Foreign Policy, and The Washington Monthly. On the
conservative side, we looked for articles in National Review,
American Spectator, Commentary, Chronicles, Policy Review, The National
Interest, The Public Interest, and Human Events. We
counted only "objective" journalists -- reporters, editors,
producers, and news executives committed to the traditional journalistic
expectations of accuracy and balance.
The subjects of study were those from the
major television/radio networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, PBS and National
Public Radio); news magazines (Time, Newsweek, and U.S.
News and World Report); major papers (The Washington Post, The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles
Times); and any other major paper in which two or more articles
appeared by its reporters (Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Chicago
Sun-Times and Tribune, Miami Herald, New York Post, and Newsday).
The media's favorite freelancing outlet
is The New Republic, which carried 112 articles by major
reporters, producers, or executives during the study period. Newsweek
writers led the pack with 32 articles, paced by Washington reporter
Timothy Noah's 13 contributions. All three networks were represented,
with articles by CBS News Executive Political Editor Martin Plissner and
producer Richard Cohen, ABC News White House correspondent Brit Hume,
and from NBC, then State Department Correspondent Anne Garrels (now with
NPR) and then-Chief Political Correspondent Ken Bode, not to mention 19
articles from Bazell.
Bazell hasn't been writing for the
liberal magazine solely for fun and profit, but because of his liberal
politics. When The New Republic endorsed aid to the Contras in
1986, Bazell wrote a letter to the editor in protest: "When I was
asked to write my first piece for The New Republic three years
ago, I was honored and proud to have of my work appear to a journal with
such a distinguished liberal tradition. When I read you editorial 'The
Case for the Contras' (March 24), I was angry and ashamed that my piece
on the space shuttle had appeared in the magazine."
The Washington Monthly, edited
by neoliberal Charles Peters, is also a popular haven for reporter
freelancing, with 98 articles by "objective' journalists. The board
of Contributing Editors is a regular roll call of reporters: Time
Senior Writer Walter Shapiro, Christian Science Monitor staff
writer Jonathan Rowe, U.S. News and World Report Associate
Editor Arthur Levine and Chicago correspondent Paul Glastris, and a
whole contingent from Newsweek; Senior Writer Jonathan Alter,
Contributing Editors Gregg Easterbrook and Joseph Nocera, and Washington
Correspondents Timothy Noah and Steven Waldman. Between them, these
reporters wrote 82 articles for the liberal magazine.
But the freelancing temptation didn't
stop at safely establishment liberal magazines. Another 73 articles
appeared in the three biggest far left periodicals. CNN Senior
Correspondent Stuart Loory has written for The Progressive.
Shortly after being fired by the network in 1988, CBS Producer Richard
Cohen wrote one of the 11 articles in Mother Jones.
Contributors to The Nation included a CNN producer (Linda
Hunt), an ABC News production associate (Richard Greenberg), a MacNeil/Lehrer
NewsHour reporter (Nancy Nichols), NPR's Foreign Editor (John
Dinges), and Newsday's National Security Correspondent (Roy
Gutman). Four current Washington Post reporters (Marc Fisher,
Douglas Farah, Walt Harrington, and Steven Mufson) have been published
in Mother Jones.
Dissent, "a critical
magazine for the concerned, inquisitive reader who views the world from
the democratic socialist position," ppublished eight articles by
reporters, four from Washington Post political correspondent
Thomas B. Edsall and two pieces by Charles Lane, Newsweek El
Salvador Bureau Chief. Ms. ran 16 stories.
Conservative opinion magazines, on the
other hand, rarely contains articles from reporters or executives. Of
the 22 articles that appeared from 1986 through mid-1989, The
American Spectator led with 11, with three articles each from ABC's
Brit Hume, ABC Radio reporter Robert Kaplan, and John Podhoretz, a
contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report (now a Washington
Times Assistant Managing Editor). Time Senior Editor
George Russell wrote five articles or book reviews for Commentary. National
Review ran only three articles, from a Los Angeles Times
news editor (Robert Knight), a former Time military
correspondent (David Halevy), and a former President of CBS News (Fred
Friendly). Two articles appeared in The Public Interest and one
in The National Interest. In three and a half years, not one
news reporter for a major media outlet wrote anything for Human
Events, Chronicles or Policy Review.
Journalists should certainly be allowed
to escape the constraints of objective news reporting and write for the
opinion magazines they enjoy. But this overwhelming preference for
liberal journals, this "freelance gap," offers quite a telling
insight into the personal biases that color the news.
journalists follow a slightly different pattern:
Critics of theater, movies, books and
other subjects preferred writing articles for liberal magazines (48)
over conservative ones (22) by more than 2 to 1. The New Republic
has published 13 columns by Newsweek art critic Mark Stevens,
in addition to articles by Time art critic Robert Hughes, USA
Today book editor Robert Wilson, Wall Street Journal
television critic Martha Bayles, and from The New York Times,
drama critic Frank Rich and film critic Jane Maslin.
John Leonard, the New York
magazine critic who regularly appears on CBS Sunday Morning,
wrote nine pieces for Ms. and eight articles for The Nation.
James Lardner, a former drama critic for The Washington Post,
wrote 12 reviews for The Nation. Conservative magazines were
graced only by Wall Street Journal book editor David Brooks
(17) and Washington Times television critic Richard Marin (5).
Conservative magazines could find few
reports to contribute articles, but plenty of editorial writers made it
into print. Wall Street Journal and Washington Times
opinion writers were most frequently represented in the 52 such pieces
published. Just 20 articles by editorial writers appeared in liberal
magazines. Conservatives in the media stick to working for the editorial
page. But with 315 pieces in liberal magazines by reporters, liberals
sure don't.
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Work for PBS
PBS generated an angry response from the public when it decided to
broadcast the unabashedly pro-Palestinian Days of Rage. PBS has
not learned from its mistake, however, as can be seen in the choice to
air "America's Century," a six-part series written
and narrated by Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham. The expressed
purpose of the series is to chart America's rise as a superpower, and
the 1962 Cuban missile crisis is one the issues examined when the series
airs this fall.
Among the "experts" appearing
during the show, according to a Los Angeles Times article, is
leftist author Noam Chomsky who declares that "it's taken for
granted that we have a right to ring them [the USSR] with missiles but
they don't have a right to put a few, a few missiles in Cuba."
Lapham agrees with this Soviet apologia and continues "the U.S.
staked the life of the human race. The risk...expressed the arrogance of
power." Hard as it is to believe, Lapham claims other parts of the
series will be even more controversial.
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aqtech wrote: Except for the fact that your comparison is inaccurate and intentionally skewed, that's roughly how I feel about.
Where is the comparison inaccurate? Its like a "no extra charge" Cable "On Demand" service, or paying for a hotel room for a weekend (you don't pay more if you spend more hours in the room, or less if you spend fewer), or renting a U-Haul truck. That's what we are doing. We are paying for access to what's available.
Call it whatever you'd like, but I won't support that kind of business. I would feel differently if CR simply decided not to reacquire rights, etc.
I do not understand your complaint at all.
(1) Crunchyroll insists on a fixed license period for its simulcasts, with optional renewal for a fee, just like DVD licenses, manga licenses, etc. One thing that means is no renewal, at least not yet, because catalog titles do not pay enough for a new minimum guarantee. A fixed term when nobody knows yet who will be licensing what probably means one season after the series finished broadcasting, certainly for a single-season anime.
So for this series, under the terms that you are happy with, Crunchyroll gets Bombshells from the Sky for the Summer 2010 simulcast season, then an extra period during the Fall 2010 simulcast season, then the term is up and it expires. And by today, its long since gone.
(2) Crunchyroll licenses series with automatical renewals until someone else licenses it, as it looks like it licensed this one. That's the business model you are complaining about.
So for this terrible business model, Crunchyroll simulcast the series for Summer 2010, then kept it for the minimum of one extra season that every series licensed since the middle of 2010 has seemed to have, so that's Fall 2010 ... and then because nobody licensed it right away, it stayed on the site for Winter 2011, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011, and Winter 2012, and because someone recently licensed it, the rights are expiring.
Except, somehow, the rights are only expiring for the first two episodes, and, if we take the announcement at its word, not expiring at all in North America (we'll find out this weekend if really means that). So instead of everybody who still want to watch it, or who wants to rewatch it, having to marathon it by the end of March ... members outside of North America have to be sure to marathon the first two episodes.
But you would prefer it if it had simply gone dark over a year ago???
Regardless of the reason, in the end it all depends on how I, as an individual customer, feel about all of this as to whether or not I decide to continue paying.
Its just that I don't understand why getting catalog titles for an extra year or more is something an individual customer would feel bad about. More anime on the site for more people seems to me like something most other members would support.
In this particular case, availability is irrelevant to me (despite the fact that I don't live in the US year-round )--that was simply an assumption on your part.
Quite, which is why I stated the basis for the assumption.
I was referring to the situation in general, at least when my post is taken in context. Whether or not you agree on the general premise is your prerogative.
But the situation in general is we got more anime than if Crunchyroll did it the way you seem to say, signing all their contracts with fixed terms and never signing contracts were simulcasts can stay on the site until and unless someone else license them.
To correct your analogy, it would be akin to having to return a rental car because someone else made a better offer on it after the fact.
No, it would be akin to being allowed to drive a rental car for an extra month because nobody wanted to rent it, and then getting a call to return it because someone wants it. Its the fact that we are talking about a single-season Summer 2010 series that would be long gone under fixed terms that makes it hard for me to grasp why anyone would be upset. When it was announced as a simulcast in mid-2010, nobody would have bet the house on it still being here in Winter 2012.
8 years as a premium member, but no more
Unfortunately, our disagreements only amount of half-full vs. half-empty. You've done an excellent job in enumerating what I don't like about it. I am happy for you that you do, in fact, like (or at least don't mind) how this works. If you can't comprehend why I happen to dislike the situation, no worries. It simply means Crunchyroll doesn't provide what I'm looking for nor does it do what I think should be done. While I don't mind the fact that I may be "renting" something (we technically don't own our DVDs, etc)., as you aptly put it, I do mind when selections are removed, old or new--it only makes it more vexing for me that it was done for the reason given. I don't think I'm alone in that I like to revisit many series eventually. I don't like the idea of paying someone else again for something I'm already paying regularly for. I guess I was expecting a paid, ready access to an accruing "rental collection" of sorts (that I'd be willing to forgo simulcasts in favor of, personally), not a selection that also moves negatively (no less based upon the whim of another company--my equivalent to getting a black eye and a handshake in return). What I'd like won't happen in the current industry, but I certainly don't wish the CR itself any malice in spite of that. I just won't pay for it to work in this manner. It's that simple.
While you point to how fortunate I am compared to other regions, that isn't untrue. It's just that it is a poor supporting element for what you are trying to say. I don't think the way it pans out for various regions is fair at all, but I do know CR does at least try.
In any case, I expressed my opinion as I originally wanted. I appreciate the time you, agila61, and anyone else spent reading, worthwhile or not.
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I don't like the idea of paying someone else again for something I'm already paying regularly for.
Technically, you shouldn't have to pay, as the first two episodes are traditionally the ones Funimation always keeps available for free streaming. Of course, you will have to put up with only 360p resolution (unless they put them on Hulu) and ads.
Since the alternative was likely Crunchyroll losing access to the complete series for the U.S. & Canada, to me it is a strange but acceptable alternative.
Full disclosure: I currently also have a subscription to Funimation Elite, so in reality, this doesn't currently affect me, although it would if I ever dropped that sub.
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aqtech wrote: I guess I was expecting a paid, ready access to an accruing "rental collection" of sorts (that I'd be willing to forgo simulcasts in favor of, personally), ...
But that's not what Crunchyroll is. Crunchyroll's stated vision is to one day bring all anime broadcast in Japan streaming worldwide outside of Japan shortly after broadcast.
Its not there yet, whether or not it will ever get there ... but the idea is to be an online "DVR" of the current Japanese anime season. They keep series around as long as they can, but if there's a choice between spending our money on a 5 year license for just 1 anime, or on 10 exclusive streaming licenses for a week with shared streaming for at least one season after the broadcast ends ... then Crunchyroll has to pick the 10 streaming licenses.
Otherwise they'd make themselves into liars.
Well, it might not be ten to one ~ maybe eight or nine to one. After all, buying a permanent digital copy of, say, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex from iTunes costs $2/episode. A 26 episode season costs $52.
Someone with a $60 annual Crunchyroll subscription is paying $5/month. If they are following five series at an episode a week, that is about a quarter an episode ~ $3 for a 13 episode series, $6 for a 26 episode series.
$52/$6 = 8.67 : 1.
When we pay our quarter (or our dime for those who watch a lot more that that, or our half dollar for those who only watch a few series), we are paying for that view. We are not paying to accumulate a big back catalog.
Now, the back catalog continues to build, slowly, as more titles get licensed with licenses that automatically roll-over until and unless they get a license from a distributor. And so instead of being a home for the big hits, the catalog is more a home for the orphans ~ keeping stuff available that would otherwise only be available from bootlegs.
The big anime back catalogs are at Netflix streaming (especially for dubs), Hulu, and from the individual distributors Funimation.com and TheAnimeNetwork.
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michana wrote:
We wanted to let you know Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky episodes 1 & 2 will only be available in North America after March 31st while the remaining episodes are still available WORLDWIDE except for Japan, Korea and Mongolia.
It appears an error was made in the reconfiguration of the series.
After being tipped off in another topic there was a problem, I checked episodes 1, 3, 4, & 12, and as a U.S. premium member, all give me only a 2 minute clip, and display "This video is not available to free users anymore. Please check the availability time windows for more details".
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Hold on a minute....I just tested this.....
It was never mentioned that non-us couldn't get Episodes 1 and 2......
quirriff wrote:
Hold on a minute....I just tested this.....
It was never mentioned that non-us couldn't get Episodes 1 and 2......
From the first message in this thread (red added for emphasis):
We wanted to let you know Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky episodes 1 & 2 will only be available in North America after March 31st while the remaining episodes are still available WORLDWIDE except for Japan, Korea and Mongolia.
The message shows it was last edited 28 days ago (the same day it was posted).
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Deng, Bulls hold off Pistons
Chicago, IL – Luol Deng scored 28 points, including 13 in the fourth quarter, and grabbed nine boards, as the Chicago Bulls held off the Detroit Pistons, 95-94, on Sunday.
Jimmy Butler and Nate Robinson scored 16 points apiece, with Butler recording five steals for the Bulls, who have won four of their last five games.
"I was concerned about this game, coming off one yesterday and understanding how important it is to be ready," said Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau. "We dodged a bullet. We were fortunate. We got out of a hole."
Chicago has won 18 straight against Detroit. The Pistons last defeated the Bulls on Dec. 23, 2008.
Rodney Stuckey had a team-high 25 points off the bench for the Pistons, who are on a three-game losing streak and have lost 10 of their last 14 games. Greg Monroe had 18 points and 10 rebounds and Charlie Villanueva tallied 14 points in the setback.
"This isn't a one-player problem," said Pistons coach Lawrence Frank. "This isn't a one-coach problem. This is a team problem that we all have to share the responsibility. We all want to get this right. We'll find [the answers] whether they're here on our roster now or whether it's [someone else] in the future that will play at a whole lot more competitive level. We're capable of doing a whole lot more."
At halftime, Detroit had a 57-53 edge.
The Pistons extended their lead by eight, 70-62, with 5:07 to play in the third period. However, the Bulls slowly made their way back.
Neither team scored a field goal in the final 1:58, but Deng hit one of his two free throws with 31 seconds left and cut Detroit's lead to three, 74-71, entering the fourth quarter.
Deng then powered the Bulls to victory in the fourth. With 8:37 remaining in regulation, he made a running layup to give the Bulls the lead, 80-78.
Chicago increased its margin to seven, 91-84, after a 3-pointer by Robinson with 3:55 left, but Detroit did not quit.
The Pistons went on a 7-1 spurt, capped with a layup by Stuckey, to bring them within one, 92-91, with 1:27 remaining.
However, Deng made a putback layup and Daequan Cook sank one of his two free throws with 4.9 seconds left to put the game out of reach. Stuckey drilled a 3-pointer at the buzzer, but it was too late.
Entering the second quarter, the Pistons led 24-20.
Stuckey and Villanueva scored 16 and 10 points, respectively, in the second period. However, Robinson had 11 points to help keep the Bulls in the game.
Game Notes
Deng shot 11-of-17 from the foul line ... Carlos Boozer and Taj Gibson scored 11 points apiece for the Bulls ... Detroit's Andre Drummond had 14 rebounds ... Chicago leads the season series by a 3-0 margin and has automatically won the series for the fifth straight season ... The two teams play one more time this season on April 7, in Chicago. If Chicago wins, they will sweep Detroit for the fourth consecutive season.


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Skyfall Launches Empire's Winter Preview
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Update: Just for you lucky folks, we can now reveal some brand new exclusive new stills from our Bond coverage - pick up the new issue where you'll find even more lovely stills from Skyfall.
The October issue of Empire hits newstands today, heralding the arriving of our yearly winter preview, led this time by Daniel Craig's James Bond in Sam Mendes' Skyfall.
Flanked inside by the likes of Lincoln, Cloud Atlas, The Master, The Flight,Zero Dark Thirty, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Django Unchained, 007's return stands alongside some seriously heavyweight cinematic contenders, and Empire has the latest from every one of them.
In our extensive Skyfall coverage, Mendes and Craig reveal just how Bond's latest adversary, Silva, will be more than a match for MI6's finest. "[Silva] is larger than life in one respect but full of surprises - never entirely, at any given moment, exactly what you think it is. Javier takes some risks," explains Mendes.
"But he's an amazing actor and I think he gives you something you may consider to have been absent from Bond movies for a long time," he adds. "Silva's up there with the greats, for me, and that's why I worked very hard to persuade one of the great actors of the world to do it..."
As for whether he considers this a revitalisation of the franchise, Mendes says, "...There are quite a lot of new things in this movie, but I never had the intention to reinvent the wheel."
Bond himself also shared a few words on how it felt to put on 007's dinner jacket once more, telling Empire that he takes it very seriously indeed. "When I'm doing the movie I'm totally single-minded," Daniel Craig said. "...I keep my energy levels as high as I can all the time. I want to inspire, and be inspired. And I'm lucky enough to work with some incredible people with vast experience."
"I was standing on top of a train in Turkey with this crew of people, I looked around and I thought, 'You know, this is the best place to be for an actor.' So I kind of give it all I've got, and then collapse for a while!"
And as anyone who's seen the latest trailer for Bond's 23 outing will tell you, it's pretty easy to see why Craig might be a little tired after all he's been through. For more details on that front, check out this special Empire Skyfalltrailer breakdown here.
The October issue of Empire is on sale today, August 29. For more details on Skyfall and everything else in the issue, head this way — and be sure to take a look at our US and UK iPad editions available for download too.
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Generic Optimization for EXT_compiled_vertex_array
It should be possible to provide generic optimization for compiled vertex arrays. These optimizations should be implementable for both indirect rendering and direct rendering. For the direct rendering case, Mesa should provide generic paths that drivers can enable or disable. These paths are only useful for drivers that implement vertex buffer objects and have hardware T&L units.
When glLockArraysEXT is called, a buffer is created that is large enough to hold all of the currently known array state. All arrays for which data has been set (e.g., via glVertexPointer, glColorPointer, etc) is included in the calculation. It is possible that the application may enable or disable additional arrays. The calculated size includes only the range specified by the "count" parameter of glLockArraysEXT.
At this time, a flag is set within libGL to note that the library is in the special CVA mode. If any pointer function is called, the buffer object is destroyed and the flag is cleared.
In the CVA case, all element data will come from client memory either via calls to glArrayElement, glDrawArrays, or the pointer supplied to glDrawElements. This implies that all the indexes will pass through libGL. When the data passes through libGL, the library can re-base the data from the "first" parameter of glLockArraysEXT. The net effect is that the library will tell the server that "first" is element zero in all arrays. This implies, of course, that elements less than "first" won't work. This is not a problem since the EXT_compiled_vertex_array specification clearly states this may not work.
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Ohio State picked up its dual-threat quarterback of the future late Wednesday when J.T. Barrett committed to the Buckeyes.
Barrett was one of two quarterbacks to choose a BCS school late Wednesday, and the sixth QB to pick a school since the weekend.
A 6-foot-2, 205-pound prospect out of Rider High School in Wichita Falls (Texas), Barrett rushed for more than 1,500 yards last year while throwing for more than 1,600. The consensus four-star QB accounted for 21 touchdowns and reportedly runs the 40 in the 4.6-second range.
More 2013 recruiting analysis: SN's Recruiting Central
Baylor, LSU and Texas Tech were his other finalists, and until Texas got a commitment from in-stater Tyrone Swoopes, Barrett was on the Longhorns' short list.
"I think college coaches like my pass-and-run combo I bring, and that I have the ability to extend plays," Barrett told Sporting News recently. "In my high school offense we do a lot of similar things (to Ohio State)."
While Michigan has gotten a lot of attention with the nation's largest class (17 members), Ohio State added its 10th class member. DE Tracy Sprinkle of Elyria (Ohio) was the Buckeyes' ninth commitment earlier this week.
Ohio State wasn't the only Big Ten program to land its quarterback for 2013. On Wednesday, Purdue got a commitment from Danny Etling, a consensus three-star prospect out of Terre Haute (Ind.). The 6-foot-3, 200-pound recruit also reported offers from Colorado and Iowa.
Earlier this week, Colorado, Northwestern, Missouri and Michigan State landed quarterbacks. This time of the year is the busiest when it comes to BCS programs getting commitments from their quarterbacks of the future.
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I had some time to kill today between calls up in Saskatoon so stopped in at the local army surplus store on Idlewyld Dr.
Small ammo cans = $8.00
Large ammo cans = $12.00
Taxes extra (5 & 6%). Cans are almost NEW!!! I picked up two small ones before heading down to Regina. They have oodles of 'em. If anyone is interested, I'll take orders for the next time I'm up here.
Princess Auto on Portage Ave. has some 'new' Ammo cans for $7.99. They are smaller ones, but ideal in my mind for a cache. In case you didn't know where to look, they are at the back of the store on the far right.
They also have some crazy huge ammo cans you could hide a body in - if you were into that sorta thing.
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Dropped in at Princess Auto on Portage Ave. tonight. They have a special on the 4 inch wide ammo boxes at $6.99. These boxes are beside the cashier which is closest to the surplus section. (The regular 6 inch wide ones at the back of the store are $14.99).


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I'm surprised you missed out on a few things that even the casual user would spot about the Nexus 7:
* I got 15 pounds Google Play credit with my Nexus 7 - I presume you did too, Thom, but you never mentioned it.
* No Flash shipped with the default Nexus 7, though you can side-load it.
* No Camera icon on the desktop as standard - you have to get "Camera Launcher for Nexus 7" from Google Play to be able to run the app.
* Default launcher can't rotate the home screens to landscape, which is utterly ludicrous.
Covering other points:
* First thing I did - which I do on all my Android devices - is install Firefox Beta, which on the Nexus 7 beats Chrome to a pulp (and supports Flash too!). I'm surprised you didn't try another browser when you found Chrome wanting.
* Next thing was to root and unlock the Nexus 7, which was easy enough.
* Finally, I installed the Modaco JR6 ROM, which actually included Flash, the Camera app icon and a launcher that supports landscape rotation on the home screens amongst several other improvements over the stock ROM. I may look at CyanogenMod 10 soon, but the Modaco ROM is a good starting point if you just want some of the dumb decisions made by Asus/Google to be fixed.
* No mention of any games in the review - this is really where the Nexus 7 shines: Tegra 3, 1280x800, quad core CPU on a 7" display means that games like Riptide GP and Dead Trigger look great on the tablet and where it has a clear edge on the sub-100 pounds tablets you can buy.
In the UK, if you want a good 7" tablet, the Nexus 7 is the only top-end spec machine available. We have no Kindle Fire, no Nook Color and whilst there's a load of mostly Chinese sub-100 pounds tablets available, all of them are underspec'ed in one or more important ways.
I was lucky to get the 16GB model with a 20 pounds discount code from Tesco Direct, so I'm quite pleased with the 179 pounds it cost me.
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When five young mothers—Frankie, Linda, Kath, Ally, and Brett—first meet in a neighborhood park in the late 1960s, their conversations center on marriage, raising children, and a shared love of books. Then one evening, as they gather to watch the Miss America Pageant, Linda admits that she aspires to write a novel herself, and the Wednesday Sisters Writing Society is born. The five women slowly, and often reluctantly, start filling journals, sliding pages into typewriters, and sharing their work. In the process, they explore the changing world around them: the Vietnam War, the race to the moon, and a women's movement that challenges everything they believe about themselves. At the same time, the friends carry one another through more personal changes—ones brought about by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success. With one another's support and encouragement, the Wednesday Sisters begin to embrace who they are and what they hope to become, welcoming readers to experience, along with them, the power of dreaming big.
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"I read The Wednesday Sisters in one delicious gulp. With a smart, entrancing voice, Meg Waite Clayton sweeps us into the world of the tumultuous 1960's and beyond, and gives us the gift of five young women coming into their own as friends, mothers, wives and writers. The Wednesday Sisters takes their writing group as its core, and up until the last page, I found myself fervently rooting for each of them as if they were my friends too." — Lalita Tademy, author of Red River and Cane River
"Long before there were book clubs and play dates, there were the Wednesday Sisters–a group of women whose shared love of literature transports them above the pains and pitfalls of ordinary life. While these women may seem like typical suburban housewives, each character has an intriguing secret and a rich interior life that drew me into the story and held me there. This remarkable group of women demonstrates that no matter what period of history in which we live, no matter what race, creed or class we are, no matter what pains we endure, our one unifying salvation can be books. And this book reminded me of why I love to read."— Lolly Winston, author of Good Grief and Happiness Sold Separately
I simply could not put down The Wednesday Sisters. I gave my heart to Meg Clayton's vivid characters, and I read their intertwined stories breathlessly. Move over, Ya-ya sisters!—Amanda Eyre Ward, author of Forgive Me and How to be Lost
"Meg Waite Clayton gives us a group of spunky women–mostly young, married mothers–who make the unlikely decision in 1967 to form a writers' group. Their diverse journeys over the next years in their writing and in their lives add up to a compelling and deeply moving testament to the power of women's friendships. I simply couldn't put The Wednesday Sisters down until I'd turned the last page." —Ellen Baker, author of Keeping the House
"Richly intelligent, deeply felt and incandescently original, Clayton's book is a rhapsodic story of female friendship, set against wildly changing times and mores. Not only is the book heartbreaking, funny, and undeniably smart, but truly, this is the kind of book you don't just want to pass on to all your friends. You have to."—Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble and Coming Back to Me


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The world's largest democracy, India, is also one of the fastest growing economies and is poised to become a global economic leader. The past two decades have seen social changes in this traditionally male-dominated society—one where women are expected to marry, raise children, and take care of the household—which have created many new opportunities for women in the workforce. Yet ongoing patriarchal religious customs, and a complex diversity of language, ethnicity, and culture, make India a complicated and often contradictory nation.
First Step: India Overview provides a snapshot look at India's legislative, societal, and work culture differences. This tool focuses on providing a general understanding of how India's people and cultures operate and looks at women's roles in the following areas:
The economy
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This tool is aimed at those with little or no knowledge of India today.
If you are preparing to launch a women's initiative in India, we encourage you to also look at Catalyst's Member-Only Tool, Building Cultural Awareness: Questions to Ask Before Adapting a Women's Initiative to a New Region.


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Piney Hills Harmony Board of Directors
November 21, 2018
Come visit us! Sweet Adelines International conducts two "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" Global Open Houses each year, and Piney Hills Harmony is issuing the invitation for you to visit us any Thursday at 6 p.m. during one of our rehearsals in the fellowship hall of the Presbyterian Church of Ruston, 212 N. Bonner. Click here for a wonderful testimontial video from the international office titled "Love to Sing?" For more information, use the "Contact Us" link above or call Carol at (318) 348-2291. (Note: Although we rarely cancel or change rehearsal nights, you might want to check just to make sure before planning to attend.)
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Aircraft: Piper Navajo. Injuries: None. Location: North Bend, Ore. Aircraft damage: Substantial.
What reportedly happened: The pilot had been flying on an IFR clearance in IFR conditions. As he approached his home airport and the weather improved to VFR, he canceled his IFR clearance with the intent on finishing the approach VFR. He neglected to refer to the written pre-landing checklist as he entered the traffic pattern and forgot to lower the landing gear.
During the landing flare, he heard the noise caused by the wing flaps and both propellers hitting the surface of the runway, and he added power and immediately executed a go-around. He was able to make a normal landing.
He said during the approach he heard the gear warning horn sounding, but he thought it was the altitude alerting system. An inspection of both the runway surface scarring and each propeller blade revealed that the tips of all six blades had been ground down by repeated contact with the asphalt surface.
Probable cause: The pilot's failure to lower the landing gear while on approach to landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to follow a written checklist during the approach portion of the flight.
NTSB Identification: WPR11CA142
This February 2011 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others.


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An excerpt from John Main OSB, "The Present Christ" (April 1981), in MONASTERY WITHOUT WALLS: The Spiritual Letters of John Main, ed. L. Freeman (Norwich: Canterbury, 2006), p. 163.
In the Resurrection we are absolved from the need to objectify God. No longer do we have to talk to God, to appease or petition him. "Your Father knows what your needs are before you ask him," Jesus assures us.
From that eternal moment in time when Jesus awoke to his union with the Father humanity passed beyond the stage of its spiritual infancy. In that moment it matured into the "full stature of Christ." This moment of Christ is found in the center of our being, in our own heart, where his spirit lives and grows like a seed buried in the ground. Finding that moment is the work of meditation. It is a joyful and vitalizing work because we move into the heart in a faith that knows that the moment has already dawned and is born imperishably. Once we know this union in our own experience our whole existence is reborn. It is known to be united in a wholeness that is holiness. And this is all the work of a moment, the moment of Christ.
We are not only freed from the need to see ourselves and God dualistically. We are actually summoned not to. "The time has come, indeed it is already here" when we are called to worship God in spirit and in truth. By saying this to the Samaritan woman Jesus calls us all into a new dimension of spiritual consciousness. We can no longer persist in the dualism of spiritual infancy and be in the truth of the moment of Christ. The indwelling of the Spirit of Christ is not just a gift, a special offer, a grace we can accept or decline. It is a reality, the door into the sheepfold of boundless union. It is the force in our destiny that brings us to completion. The wonder is that this summons is made by love and that it educates us with infinite gentleness.
After meditation: an excerpt from "The Guest is Inside You," KABIR: Ecstatic Poems, versions by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004), p. 61.
I have been thinking of the difference
between water
and the waves on it. Rising,
water's still water, falling back,
it is water, will you give me a hint
how to tell them apart?
Because someone has made up the word
"wave," do I have to distinguish it
from water?
There is a Secret One inside us;
the planets in all the galaxies
pass through his hands like beads.
That is a string of beads one should look at with
luminous eyes.
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Judge grants media groups' request for hearing on closed proceedings in Chandra Levy case
WASHINGTON – A Washington judge has granted several media organizations' request for a hearing to discuss access to transcripts and documents related to recent secret proceedings in the 2001 Chandra Levy case.
Judge Gerald Fisher on Monday scheduled a hearing Wednesday on the issue brought by media organizations, including The Associated Press.
Fisher has held two recent hearings in the case and barred the public and press from hearing the majority of both proceedings. Fisher said he sealed a portion of the first hearing because of "safety issues." The media also want to attend another hearing scheduled for Thursday and future hearings.
A Salvadoran man, Ingmar Guandique, was convicted of killing Levy in 2010. He is serving a 60-year prison sentence.


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Design Obsession: Clawfoot Tubs in Every Color
If you watched the movie It's Complicated, you probably noticed the fabulous matte-black clawfoot tub where Meryl Streep soaks and banters with her ex. I wanted that tub the second I saw it. I even considered DIY-ing my own vintage clawfoot in a similar charcoal until I realized that tubs come in every eye-popping color imaginable. How can I ever decide now?
These colored baths look fantastic with everything, from white tile to wallpaper to same-colored walls. And though choosing such a bold fixture color might seem limiting for future decor changes, keep in mind how many different ways you might complement and contemporize a single shade as the years go on. As long as you truly love it, the possibilities are endless.
Top Row:
1. Red tub via Apartment Therapy
2. Orange tub via Design*Sponge
3. Yellow tub via Design Sponge (see more great ones here)
4. Mint-green tub via Poetic Home
5. Green tub with green backdrop via New York TImes via Apartment Therapy
Bottom Row:
1. Blue tub via Re-idesign
2. Teal tub via Design*Sponge 3) Purple tub via Poetic Home
Images: As credited above.


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No. 28 Pirates: 3rd in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Padres.
While it may not be enough to soothe the pain of 19 consecutive losing seasons, Pirates fans at least have someone to blame. That would be Pedro Alvarez, or perhaps Greg Smith and Neal Huntington.
It was Smith, the Pirates' scouting director, and Huntington, the general manager, who bypassed Buster Posey and Eric Hosmer to claim Alvarez, an all-everything third baseman from Vanderbilt, with the No. 2 pick in the 2008 draft.
Alvarez turns 25 in February, so it's not fair to call him a bust. But he's sure trending that way, and even if he clicks down the road he and Pittsburgh...


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The toolsheds pictured here are members of a "band" called Something To Ponder, and they, uh, do some sort of funk rap folk music, the type of thing that we listen to and ponder, oh, the end of civilization. But that could just be us.
Anyway, they've put together a song called "F U Stuart Scott," about everyone's favorite "Hey, fans, don't boo!" anchor Stuart Scott.
It's what the kids call a "diss" song, though it makes us wonder if these kids could maybe use some milk and a nap. Honestly, if your song ripping on Stuart Scott causes us to say, "Jeez, Stuart Scott should be above this," it might be time to pick up those GRE study guides again. Just a thought.
By the way, if you ask us, Scott's worst crime is ruining the enjoyment we once got every time we flipped over the pillow and realize it was, in fact, cool. This small life pleasure has been irreversibly spoiled by Stuart.
The song, if you dare, is below. We did what we could to warn.


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Rand Steiger grew up with a piano in his room, and he was constantly improvising, writing songs for his rock bands to play. Composing and performing always went hand in hand, instead of being two independent processes. It was all just part of the drive to make music.
But there was a moment that solidified his inclination to compose. Steiger was 14, listening to the Philadelphia Orchestra play Mahler's Fourth Symphony at its summer home in Saratoga, N.Y.
"There is this sound near the end of the slow movement that is so transcendently beautiful," Steiger wrote last week in an e-mail exchange, "and when I heard it there for the first time, the way it made me feel convinced me that I had to spend my life making music."
Which is what Steiger has done — mostly in California, where he is a longtime faculty member at the University of California, San Diego. He's had pieces commissioned by a wide variety of groups. Next week he will be composer in residence at Boston's Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice.
Steiger, 55, has retained that early sense of delight and wonder at creating new art. He wrote in a recent e-mail exchange that he didn't think of composition as a real career until graduate school, "and even now, I feel incredibly grateful to have been able to earn a living doing what I love." When asked what he'd like the result of his residency to be, he replied simply, "That the performers find playing my music gratifying, maybe even inspiring."
That is as likely to happen at SICPP — or Sick Puppy, as it's colloquially known — as anywhere else, and more likely than at most places. Each year, a league of students, faculty, and guest composers wander happily through swaths of contemporary music, with styles and dialects varying wildly. A few landmark works of the past century or so, what artistic director Stephen Drury calls "new music that's been around a while," are thrown in for good measure. Sick Puppy is equal parts carnival and high-level seminar.
Or, as Drury, a pianist, likes to put it, "it's a gathering of like-minded pariahs."
Asked why he chose Steiger to be this year's composer in residence, Drury wrote in an e-mail that "his music is both voluptuous and intelligent." He also cited Steiger's integration of both acoustic and electronic elements in his works. "He creates sounds with both electricity and traditional instruments that have the glisten of the future."
Steiger said that "like most people of my generation, I grew up listening to recorded music, and was fascinated by the magical things that could be done in the recording studio." Playing in bands in his youth, "we were always tinkering with little boxes that transformed the sound of the instruments we used." So it was natural that when he began composing for orchestral instruments, he did the same thing, using real-time processing of instrumental sounds.
Steiger emphasized that he's not using electronics to upend the traditional concert experience. Rather, "I'm trying to do subtle things that don't get in the way of the natural acoustical sound and musicality of the performers I collaborate with. I'm striving to have the electronics be a kind of halo that complements, but doesn't distract."
Many of Steiger's pieces make overt environmental and ecological references, such as the small ensemble pieces "Cryosphere" and "Ecosphere." Steiger was just beginning a work for the Talea Ensemble in 2010 when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded; that disaster functioned as the dark inspiration for "A Menacing Plume," which is on the June 19 SICPP program.
The composer said he doesn't have "an overt political agenda with these pieces. But I am obsessed with the issues they refer to. I've always been fascinated with the amazing creatures seen in the deepest parts of oceans, and the idea of millions of gallons of oil gushing out around them with no end in sight was overwhelming. Trying to express the wonder of that undersea world, and then the horror of its destruction, was all I could possibly do at that point."
Asked whether there are specific aspects of his music that he coaches musicians on, Steiger responded that he preferred instead to allow "the individual personality of the performer to come out through their interpretation. I tend to write very challenging, virtuosic music, so usually I'm just grateful when I hear someone rise to the challenge.
"What keeps me going is that I'm writing the music that does what I have always wanted music to do, and I get great pleasure from hearing engaged musicians bringing that music to life," Steiger said elsewhere during the discussion. "It's as if for a short time everything in the world stops and I can focus entirely on what I am hearing and how it makes me feel."David Weininger can be reached at email@example.com.


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I like the story about Mother Teresa, now Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, being on her way to attend a conference on hunger in Bombay (Mumbai), India. On her way there she got lost and arrived late. On her way into the conference, right in front of the conference site — where hundreds of people were talking about food distribution and hunger — Mother Teresa discovered a dying man. With the help of one of her sisters, she picked the man up and took him home, comforting him and preparing him for death.
She never got to the conference on hunger, where people were talking about how in fifteen years they could have so much food — so much this, so much that. She never made it into the midst of the lofty discussion; Jesus stopped her at the entrance to the conference hall, in the form of a dying man.
No doubt participants of the conference had passed the same man by on their way into the building, but none of them had stopped, like those in the biblical account of the Good Samaritan. They had places to go, things to do. But then, so did Mother Teresa.
How easy it is for us to pass the buck when it comes to compassion and mercy! We have many reasons for letting someone else take on humanity's needs. We have many arguments as to why we shouldn't get involved. But are they good reasons?
Why am I tempted to "pass the buck," to avoid service with silence and inaction?
Lord, watch over your people, who come to you in confidence. Strengthen the hearts of those who hope in you. Give courage to those who falter because of their failures. In this holy season of Advent, lead them closer to you in hope, by power of the your Holy Spirit. May they one day proclaim your saving acts of kindness in your eternal kingdom. Amen.
Bishop Robert J. Baker is a noted speaker and author and currently serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama.
This is an excerpt from "Reasons for Hope: Meditations for the Advent Season." You can read more reflections here.
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