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RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) (Intel & AMD)
RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a small GUI application designed for real-time CPU frequency, throttling and load level monitoring and on-the-fly adjustment of the CPU performance level of the supported CPUs via processor's power management model-specific registers (MSRs). In automatic management mode it continuously monitors the CPU usage level and dynamically adjusts the CPU frequency, throttle and/or voltage level as needed.
Real-time CPU clock and CPU/OS load level determination and monitoring (with optional logging).
Detection of virtually any form of CPU clock throttling.
Dynamic on-demand CPU performance state (P-state) transitions via real-time adjustment of the CPU multiplier (FID) and requested voltage level (VID).
Dynamic on-demand CPU clock modulation via real-time transitions between CPU clock throttling levels.
Advanced CPU-specific power management settings for AMD K7, AMD K8 and Intel Pentium M/Pentium 4/Xeon CPU families.
Support for multi-processor (SMP/HT/multicore) systems.
Supported Cpu's
K7 (Athlon/XP/MP, Duron, Sempron)
K8 (Athlon 64/FX, Athlon 64 X2, Opteron 64, Turion 64, Sempron)
Pentium II/Celeron
Pentium III/Celeron
Pentium M/Celeron M
Pentium 4/Celeron (Northwood and Prescott cores)
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (Gallatin and Prescott cores)
Xeon (Prestonia, Nocona, Cranford and Irwindale cores)
Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition (Smithfield core)
RightMark CPU Clock Utility will run on unsupported CPU models, however, in this case, most of its functionality will be unavailable.
Notebook Hardware Control (Intel Cpu's & Chipsets)
With Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) you can easily control the hardware components of your Intel Mobile Notebook. Notebook Hardware Control helps you to:
Prolong the battery lifetime and cool down the system with CPU Voltage Control and ATI Clock Control. Full processor speed control with custom dynamic switching and CPU Speed Control (CPU policy). Monitor the battery charge level and system temperature. Control and monitor the Hard Drive with S.M.A.R.T management, acoustic & advanced power management and Hard Drive temperature monitoring. Reduce noise with Notebook FAN Control.
Info: Notebook Hardware Control works on all Notebooks with Intel CPU's. Some features are only available on newer PentiumM CPU's (Centrino).
SpeedswitchXP (AMD & Intel Speed Control)
SpeedswitchXP is a small applet that sits in the system tray and allows dynamic switching of the frequencies of mobile Intel and mobile AMD CPUs under Windows XP. During the development of Windows XP, Microsoft decided to integrate dynamic frequency switching into the operating system itself. On a default Windows XP installation, the power schemes in the power settings of the system panel control the frequencies of the processor. On Windows 2000 and previous operating systems, it was possible to manually control the CPU frequencies with a SpeedStep applet provided by Intel, but this is not possible anymore under Windows XP. It is not very good documented what the different Windows XP power schemes do and it is impossible to fully adjust the schemes as the important settings are not accessible through the control panel.
SpeedswitchXP tries to fill this gap in that it provides access to ALL power scheme settings. This small applet is similar in functionality to the native Intel SpeedStep applet for Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000 but with a few more options.
Basically all it does is creating a power scheme under the power settings in the system panel and making this the default power scheme for Windows XP. When this is done, you can control all settings of this new scheme through the applet.
Since this program is using Windows XP's internal processor performance control functions, it should work on all notebooks that feature dynamic speed switching.
So far, it has been successfully tested on notebooks with the following mobile CPUs:
Mobile Pentium III-M
Mobile Pentium 4-M
Mobile Pentium 4
Mobile Pentium M / Centrino
Mobile AMD Athlon XP
CrystalCPUID (Intel & AMD)
Read this review before you use this software!
CrystalCPUID: User Configurable Cool 'n' Quiet
Support AMD64/EM64T
Intel SpeedStep Control (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
AMD K6/K7/K8 Multiplier/Voltage Change (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
VIA CyrixIII/C3 Multiplier Change (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
Multiplier Management
MSR Editor/MSR Walker (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
Clock, Cache, System Clock, Multiplier
Feature Flags
Process Rule
Code Name
Multi Processor
PCI Device List
Chipset/VGA information
BIOS Information
Change Dialog Font
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Age 31
Occupation Fashion designer for Emerson
Residence East Bridgewater
Do you wear your own clothes most of the time?
Yes, definitely. I love what I come up with. I think it's exciting to wear something that I designed. I'd say 50 percent of the time I wear my own designs.
I know you're a huge fan of Karl Lagerfeld. Why?
I just think that he is brilliant with how he revived Chanel. I think he's a marketing genius.
Are you hoping to follow in Lagerfeld's footsteps?
I would love that. I would love Emerson to be a global brand.
How many Chanel bags do you own?
I probably have 65 or more.
It's not a problem for you at all, right? You can stop any time you want?
Well, Chanel is right over there [across the street from her studio]. I can see it out my window. — C.M.Interview has been condensed and edited. E-mail comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Unless you didn't pay your internet bill, countless hours of free Hip-Hop music was offered to Hip-Hop enthusiasts everywhere.
Whether you're a fan of the west coast flow, that down south style, some old gangsta ish, and even some New York state of mind swag, October 31st and November 1st definitely had something for everyone.
However, with all these tapes released in 2 days, some were lost in the cluster of music and weren't sure which ones were worth the listen.
Well Hip-Hop Wired is here to help! Peep the page #'s below to see which mixtapes dropped this week and which ones we think you should check!
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Hey guys,
Apprently I've offended some of you guys for my lack of language, and the small post, and I am very very sorry for it.
so to make up for all I al leaving for a few weeks, because I made a total fool out of my self.
again I am very sorry for all who I've offended It was never my intentions. I was just really exited seeing all the great custom moc's here.
sorry again.
and hopefully see you guys in a bit.
I'll try beter to be a beter men I promise


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By chance saw this video about D3O material on web.
Have heard this material also has been used for pads. Would like to hear opinions of those who have such pads. Does it actually work? What is real difference between ordinary pads and those with this D3O material? Which brands have such pads?


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Brad Benjamin's golf career took a bit of a detour last year, but the 26-year-old isn't worried.
Benjamin appeared to be on a fast track toward the PGA, having earned his Web.com Tour card at Qualifying School shortly after he turned professional in 2011.
The Okatie resident, who won the 2009 U.S. Public Links title and was one of three amateurs to make the cut at the 2011 U.S. Open, had a trying 2012 and is looking to regain his Web.com status this year. Benjamin opened his season this weekend in the eGolf Professional Tour's Palmetto Hall Championship on Hilton Head Island.
"I've gotten some good experience," said Benjamin, who played in the 2010 Masters after winning the Public Links. "It's just a matter of waiting your turn."
Benjamin said he was just thankful he was able to play in the season's opening week this year.
A mysterious neck condition cost him the first few months of his 2012 schedule, as an undiagnosed pain kept him off the course until April. Benjamin said he went to at least five doctors, who could only tell him it may have been a strained muscle or a pinched nerve.
The Rockford, Ill., native started swinging again last April and said his game didn't start rounding into form until the summer. He did not make any Web.com starts and was eliminated in the first stage of Q-School.
"I just didn't feel like I had my game last year," Benjamin said. "I felt like I was playing catch-up the whole year and maybe I was putting too much pressure on myself on top of that."
Benjamin said he moved to the area after he turned pro. He spent the winter before the 2010 Masters staying with a family friend at Belfair Plantation and joined the club in 2011. He said he and former Memphis teammate Kyle Peterman, who also was in the Palmetto Hall field, joined Berkeley Hall in October.
Benjamin will play in the eGolf Tour's Oldfield Open starting Thursday. He expects to play about 10 tour events and try for several Web.com Monday qualifiers this year.
"Last year was kind of a mess between not being able to play any events with the card and not feeling very healthy," he said, "so it's nice to start this year feeling good."
Making plans
Fellow Berkeley Hall member Nathan Stamey also started his season at Palmetto Hall.
A Bluffton resident and former UNC Greensboro standout, Stamey is preparing for a summer playing on the Canadian Professional Golf Tour. He had two top-12 finishes there in 2011 to gain status for this year.
Stamey, who turned pro in 2008, said he has struggled with a swing change so far this winter. He plans to skip the Oldfield Open in advance of a Monday qualifier in two weeks for the PGA's Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Stamey qualified for the Wyndham Championship in 2011.
"I'm always kind of stubborn," Stamey said. "When I didn't get through the second stage of Q-School, I went through a little swing change, and it hasn't clicked yet. I'm just not hitting it good enough to play on these courses."
Luke McClellan, who graduated last year from the University of South Carolina Beaufort, is just starting his professional career.
The former NAIA All-American turned pro in September and played several one- and two-day events in Florida in late 2012.
McClellan entered the Palmetto Hall Championships with hopes of making the cut and using the money to play the Oldfield Open. He said he will likely return to Florida for more short tournaments as he works to secure enough sponsorship money to start playing regularly in larger events.
"I'm in the positive, money-wise," McClellan said. "You realize how important a shot here, a shot there is. I definitely have some improvements to make, especially if you want to hang with the guys out here."
What: Palmetto Hall Championship, final round
When: Today
Where: Palmetto Hall Plantation Club, Hilton Head Island
Cost: Free


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Apple Tries To Convince Trademark Board That App Store Really Means Apple Store
from the there's-no-app-for-that dept
"Having itself faced a decades-long generic challenge to its claimed Windows mark, Microsoft should be well aware that the focus in evaluating the mark is on the mark as a whole and requires a fact-intensive assessment of the primary significance of the term to a substantial majority of the relevant public."Of course, it's easy to mock both Apple and Microsoft here. In the end, this whole thing is silly. Stop fighting over trademarks on silly things, and focus on actually competing in the marketplace.


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The Emerging America Festival brings together some of the country's most promising performers, writers, companies, and directors for a weekend filled with energy, imagination, creativity, and drama.
The Emerging America Festival spans Boston and Cambridge with events happening at all three artistic homes throughout the 4-day festival: the A.R.T.'s OBERON, 2 Arrow St. Cambridge MA; the Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, 527 Tremont Street, Boston; and the ICA at 100 Northern Avenue, Boston.
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According to the U.S. Mint, it costs about 2.4 cents to mint each penny
I really hope the group Citizens to Retire the Penny isn't successful. I promised my son I wouldn't let them get rid of the penny.
I love vacations because I get alone time with my kids that is harder to find during long work weeks and busy youth sports schedules. Blake and I were in the pool and he just blurted out, "I hope they don't really get rid of the penny. If they do, Abraham Lincoln's face won't be on anything but the Lincoln Monument and it could be destroyed."
After assuring him that the Lincoln Monument was probably safe and reminding him that Lincoln also appears on the $5 bill, I promised him that I would stop them from discontinuing the penny.
He didn't believe I could.
"You can't stop the President and Congress," he said. I assured him that I had a good chance because we still buy our ink by the barrel and my columns go viral online all of the time (not just when the NRA and AFP use them as red meat for red state voters).
I get the arguments. According to the U.S. Mint, it costs about 2.4 cents to mint each penny. That's not very efficient.
According to the Citizens to Retire the Penny, Abraham Lincoln wouldn't want his face on a coin that costs more to make than it is worth. I don't know that I would care how much a coin cost to make if my face was going to be on it.
That would be pretty cool. I'm sure Lincoln would agree.
A penny may not buy a penny but a dime won't buy a nickel. It costs almost 11 cents to make a nickel.
But the penny and nickel are hardly the only coins in the world that costs more to produce than they are initially worth.
Ethiopia began replacing its bank notes with coins in 2010. They spend about 16 cents to produce a one birr coin that is worth about 6 cents in American currency terms. Even though the initial cost is higher, the coins are in circulation for more than 10 times the lifespan of a paper note.
Of course, with the penny, there is no demand to replace the coin. These groups want it eliminated.
There are concerns that eliminating the penny would make prices higher because there would be no way to account for denominations below five cents. And what would happen to all of the "take a penny, leave a penny" dishes at convenience stores? No one is leaving a dime or a nickel behind.
This wouldn't be the first time the United States has discontinued a coin. The half cent, two cent, three cent nickel, three cent silver, half dime and twenty cent coin have all gone the way of the denomination dinosaur.
But no matter how much sense it seems to make now, we just can't get rid of the penny anytime soon. It would make all of the money we have spent producing the penny over the years a waste. And worse than that, it would make my son think I couldn't single-handedly keep them in circulation. I have to stay in his good graces.
Kent Bush is the publisher of the Butler County Times Gazette and can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Calico Coleslaw
Awhile back, I made this simple, veggie-heavy Calico Coleslaw, adapted from the 1965 Better Homes & Gardens Vegetable Cookbook:
Since I don't have a publisher or contract for this one yet, I can share a few recipes if I want. So I'll pass this one along to you guys.
Calico Coleslaw
4 cups shredded green cabbage
1/2 cup vegan mayo
1 1/2 cups frozen corn, thawed
1/4 cup green pepper, minced
1/4 of a white onion, finely minced
4-ounce jar diced pimentos, drained
1 tsp. salt
Mix everything together in a large mixing bowl. Serve immediately or refrigerate.
9 comments:
- Caitlin said...
that looks so yummy! i love coleslow ;)
- May 17, 2012 at 5:51 AM
- Joy said...
Have you considered self publishing - you can do it on the kindle pretty easily (I'm being FYI I want this cookbook and there are not many cookbooks I will deem worthy of owning...)
- May 17, 2012 at 6:03 AM
- JL goes Vegan said...
Coleslaw with corn! Love it!
- May 17, 2012 at 6:12 AM
Yum! Reminds me of coleslaw I used to eat as a kid....haven't had it in years / forgot all about it. I'll make it tonight, thanks!
- May 17, 2012 at 7:37 AM
- Scissors and Spice said...
That is very Pennsylvania Dutch (who are actually not Dutch, but German) looking!
- May 17, 2012 at 8:00 AM
- Barb@ThatWasVegan said...
I've never heard of corn in coleslaw, but it sure is pretty!
- May 17, 2012 at 8:10 AM
- s o p h i e said...
dude, veganizing vintage?! brilliant. what's the ETA on this cookbook?
- May 17, 2012 at 9:17 AM
- Lesley Eats said...
I love retro recipes! My favorites come from old church cookbooks.
This is a fab idea, too. I wonder why this didn't stay popular?
- May 17, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Will def have to give this a try. Love the addition of corn! :)
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|View Poll Results: Haruka or Mitsuki?
|Haruka, and respondent is male
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|2006-11-26, 21:08
|Link #122
Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: NJ
I voted Mitsuki, male respondent
My reason is simple:
Life moves on and one shouldn't get held back by the past. Thing will arise from the past, but that doesn't give one the right to leave the present. In would be destroying everything one built up.
Life moves on. It waits for no one. And if people change, they should stay changed. Time is the deminsion that Humans are stuck in and we could do nothing about it. Accept it or one will never be able to live.
|2006-11-28, 03:22
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Style Über Alles
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NYC/Chicago
look guys, mitsuki is not so childish like haruka, yet she is very caring and loving. what's not to love about that. Surely she gets emo (a lot), but with proper care it will be great. She is not the type of person who will willingly hurt someone out of jealousy, it was rather obvious that she sacrificed her feelings in the beginning so haruka can be happy, although she did not do so without confronting these feelings honestly. Basically mitsuki is just holding too much in, and I think it is quite sympathetic how she really suffers because of it. She is not a bad girl, just confused and weak sometimes.
|2006-11-28, 04:39
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
I have little respect for her. She sacrificed her feelings? Not really - after Haruka and Taka were already a couple she kept getting in the way all the time. In fact i doubt that she even considered the posibility that Haruka might actualy hook up with Taka - hence her surprise when she found out that Taka had asked Haruka out to the movie and she had accepted.
At the start it might have been her intention to get Haruka and Taka together, but in the end she kept getting in the way each time Haruka and Taka had a date - if she hadn't dragged Taka off at her birthday to buy her that cursed ring the accident would have never happened. Ofc Taka is at fault here as well for not being able to tell Mitsuki to gtfo for once. Her actions contradict her original intentions (provided she didn't use Harukas crush to get close with Taka in the first place).
If she would have gone after Taka from the start it would have been perfectly fine with me. Instead she is trying to hit on him behind Haruka's back <- and actions like these is what i utterly despise in humans, and is enough to label her as a B**** in my book. Seeing her end up 6ft under would be a delight.
|2006-11-28, 13:19
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Style Über Alles
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NYC/Chicago
I don't think that is a reasonable deduction given the hints of discomfort that she showed while seeing the two together. It was obvious that she tried to suppress some existing feelings, and it was obvious that she was not strong enough to do that.
I think the situation is as she said, and a little more. She became friends with taka in order to do some matchmaking, but also developed genuine feelings on her own. I dont think this is wrong of her, since she cannot control these things. She was just not honest with herself, and thought she was stronger than she really was. Really, had it not for mitsuki, taka would not have known that haruka existed.
There is no need to hate someone just because they can't win against their feelings, and can't see certain things clearly. I don't consider mitsuki a bad person at all. Really, when was her love not tainted with some guilt, leave her alone please.
|2006-11-28, 13:38
|Link #127
Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
|2006-11-28, 13:48
|Link #128
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Graphic Designer
owh the old battle brought up again!
there are too many mitsuki haters in this world! >.<
i loved her...even with all that has happened she shouldnt be blamed for what happened...she didnt forsee the accident...she just wanted to be with taka...even when she dragged him to go buy that ring it wasnt intentionally evil maybe just playful affection...she knows that haruka and taka are together anyway so its not like shes intentionally out to seal him...oh it could be a lot worse if she was really fighting...
well emotions are hard to contain and she has big emotions for taka even after what has happened and for her to be taking care of the good for nothing taka for a few years!
heck what is wrong with developing feelings for someone after you pushed your friend to him? sure its bitchy but it cant be helped and she doest a good job trying to control the feeling...i really dont see her clawing onto taka everytime he was with haruka...just the odds here and there but that is what some girls are like...
|2006-11-28, 13:49
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Style Über Alles
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NYC/Chicago
i can never bring myself to hate a girl who cries so sadly in her heart. not even if she destroys everything that is dear to me. What is certain is that mitsuki is the most tragic character in this show, and it makes me feel bad that people cannot forgive her for something that she cannot control
|2006-11-28, 14:03
|Link #130
Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
But thats the point - no need to surpress it - if you like Taka - go for it! It's called being true to your own feelings and i can respect that. Doing things she did is something i can not respect - if you choose to push your two friends together then do it and stay out of the way when its done, if you want him for yourself - go for it and tell your friend: Sorry, i also want to get laid by him and will do everything to make it happen. Working behind some one's back(for the lack of a bit softer term) is something i utterly despise.
True, the accident was not an event she could have foreseen, but it does not change the fact that she is an indirect cause of it. I am not saying i can not sympathise(sp?) with the situation she was in, but she was the cause of the situation (intentional or not) to begin with, which could have all been avoided if she would have been true to her own feelings.
|2006-11-28, 14:36
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but the point is she is trying to be a good friend and "let" haruka have taka...im sure that she wouldnt have minded is misuki openily said that they are going to compete for the same guy but she didnt because she wanted haruka to be happy while suffering herself...thats what friends do...but yea because its hard to control those emotions she only went after minor comfrot by being with taka for a while...that was all she wanted from him...maybe (casually) see each other from time to time thats all...
you know this pairing always reminds me of asa's situation from shuffle!...its nearly the same situation with asa and kade as with misuki and haruka...
|2006-11-28, 14:58
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
|2006-11-28, 15:06
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Style Über Alles
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NYC/Chicago
Her inability to do what she "ought" to do is not something that portrays bad intetions, it was just her being weak and confused. I dont think you can hate someone for being weak or confused, nor can you blame someone for being somethinng. It is like your little 3 year old brother peeing on your carpet, what can you do? Beat the kid up? come on
|2006-11-28, 15:37
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
Actually i can hate anything for whatever reasons, and these reasons are diferrent to each person As i said - basicly she kept getting in between Taka and Haruka, even if all she wanted was some atention from him with no intentions going further than that - it is still getting in the way behind ones back. Those are actions i highly dislike and would never take myself.
I would never consider the posibility of seeking atention from one of my friend's girlfriends. Never, under any circumstances. Period. Those are my principles, and i live and die by my principles. While others might find such actions fine and reasonable, i personally find them disgusting. I "hate" her because her actions heavily contradict my own 'moral code' (as cheesy as that may sound) and i am not saying others should hate/dislike her because of the same reasons i do. I have no problems with people liking her, just do not expect me to like her or to change my opinion about her, unless i'm drunk. Which is unlikely to happen as well, because i don't drink at all. (Water/juice/lemonade aside)
Oh, and imho arguments like "This was intended to create the tragic set-up, much like the car" are pretty much useless in a discussion - otherwise we can drop everything on the writers and plot and stop discussing characters and situations alltogether It's obvious that everything that happened was intended for some reason or another
Oh - and my brother peeing on the carpet is not needed for me hating him, because i hate him anyway
|2006-11-28, 15:56
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Style Über Alles
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NYC/Chicago
It is one thing to hate someone, it is another to hate someone's image in your mind that does not have any correspondence with reality. The reality here is the canon image of the character, thus the 'intended situation' is highly relevant.
maybe you are hating someone other than mitsuki.
|2006-11-28, 16:13
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
I would hate(or dislike, since hate is a strong word) anyone who would act that way regardles of the situation, especially if he/she would be partially at fault for the creation of the said situation. And no, i do not know any one on a personal level who would have been in a similar situation.
|2006-11-28, 18:19
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
Ok, so far i have gathered this from our debate - i hate Mitsuki and it is not going to change, you like her and it is not going to change, and our opinions on the situation are not going to change as well, so lets just call it a day We are getting nowhere
|2006-11-28, 18:28
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Age: 49
I'd look at the issue from the reverse angle:
If I was in an accident falling in a coma for many years, would I want my partner to suffer like a dog, truthfully waiting for me all the time? Heck no, I wouldn't. It would be terribly selfish to do so. And heck, we SAW Takayuki falling apart. Would you demand that from him/her?
Consequently, in my eyes you'd be a horribly cruel and selfish person to do so. If I was in Haruka's shoes, I'd try my hardest to get together after my coma - but I'd be horrible to blame Mitsuki for moving in after a full year. Keep in mind that in the anime, Haruka did NOT blame her.
From the positive angle, Mitsuki for me. She tried harder and suffered longer. It's extremely unlucky and unfair for Haruka, but... sorry. Most people damning Mitsuki have a strangely selfish and warped outlook on things (absurd-esoteric stuff like blaming her for Haruka's accident). Honor Haruka's graceful sacrifice in the end and her wish for a forgiving reunion via her "Hontou no Takaramono" book, instead of making this an "he's MINE!!!" shouting match
|2006-11-28, 18:34
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just personal opinions imo as we all see the world differently...
and just before i go off to bed...misuki rulz!
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- Adult Adventure
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Breakfast sandwiches included, he dubbed it the McEverything.
Nick Chipman, a food blogger, has a bucket list of mostly food-related ambitions and the McEverything has been on his list for "two or three years now," he wrote on his blog, Dude Foods.
The McFeat cost him $141.33 and untold calories.
McDonald's sandwiches range from 250 calories (hamburger) to 750 calories (double quarter pounder with cheese) each.
"So why didn't I build this monster creation earlier? Honestly, I figured that if I went into a McDonald's location and ordered 43 different sandwiches … that they'd either think I was totally insane or just completely hate me for having them make so many different sandwiches as part of just one order," he wrote.
Turns out the crew at the Wauwatosa, WI, McDonald's were more than happy to be a part of his McMission.
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He assembled the sandwiches and held them together with bamboo sticks, taking a few pictures for posterity's sake, in case his creation came tumbling down.
But the hardest part?
"Not eating any of the sandwiches until it was complete. I'm a total sucker for McDonald's sandwiches, especially their McGriddles," he wrote.
And yes, he ordered a diet Coke.
No word on if he chased all that with McPepto Bismol.
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NBC Presents
Convicted Felons Tales of Oppression Without Rebuttal
Page One
Susan McDougal vs. Nazi Starr?
Susan McDougal stands convicted of felonies in the
theft of a fraudulent Small Business Administration loan. She is now
jailed for contempt for refusing to answer vital questions about whether
the President perjured himself in her trial. But Dateline NBC
didnt present her as a crook, but as a victim of historical
Stone Phillips spent the first of the October 5 and 6
pieces raising McDougal to martyr status through sympathetic accounts of
her imprisonment. He interviewed one of her prison mates: "Butch told
Dateline that while Susan McDougal was locked in her cell for up to
23 hours a day, other prisoners, even the accused murderers, were
allowed to watch TV and socialize."
On the second night Phillips took McDougals
outrageous claims of oppression to a new network TV low. McDougal
compared Starrs tactics to the Nazis, and Phillips didnt even feign
surprise at this remark. He merely elaborated: "Kenneth Starr a Nazi? To
understand the depth of Susan McDougals hatred for the man who had her
jailed, you have to understand the depth of her love for the woman whos
been her inspiration...Susan McDougals mother Lorette Hinley knows all
about standing firm under enormous pressure. As a teenager in
Nazi-occupied Belgium she saw first- hand how the Gestapo turned
neighbor against neighbor forcing people to lie about loved ones who
were then arrested or shot. She says her family defied them, going so
far as to hide Resistance fighters in their basement."
Phillips continued: "Those lessons from the war were
often told around the family dinner table in Camden, Arkansas but never
with more at stake than in September 1996, the night before Susan was
scheduled to testify before a Whitewater grand jury. Shed already been
convicted of fraud, and she says prosecutors were offering to lighten
her two year sentence if shed testify against the Clintons, but that
night she called her family together to tell them...she wasnt going to
testify at all."
After more Nazi comparisons by McDougal and her
mother, Phillips finally asked: "Is it fair to compare Kenneth Starr to
the Nazis? Isnt Kenneth Starr just doing what prosecutors do everyday
in this country, offering leniency to those who cooperate and upping the
pressure on those who dont talk?"
Phillips ended by lofting this softball: "Your family
says that you could make two phone calls. One to the prosecutors, one to
a publisher and youd be free and youd be rich. Are those phone calls
youll ever make?" Phillips seemed to forget she has yet to serve time
for the fraudulent Whitewater loans she and the Clintons never repaid.
Can you do a two-hour show on campaign fundraising and
not use the word "scandal"? Incredibly enough, under the command of new
CNN President Rick Kaplan the answer is yes. The September 15 Washington
Whispers section of U.S. News & World Report relayed that at his
first early morning board meeting in Atlanta, "Kaplan raised a few
eyebrows by telling CNN staffers to limit their use of the word scandal
in reporting on Clintons campaign fundraising woes." U.S. News
added: "A longtime Clinton friend, Kaplan has stayed in the Lincoln
Weeks later, on October 7, CNN aired a two-hour
special titled "The Money Trail: Democracy for Sale" which examined the
GOP and argued for campaign finance reform, but also summarized charges
against Clinton. Nonetheless, the phrase "Clinton scandal" was never
The words "scandal" or "scandals" appeared just four
times. Twice in the Crossfire segment of the special liberal Bill
Press claimed that Republicans are trying to use scandal to bring down
Clinton since they cant win on the issues. At another point,
Moneyline anchor Lou Dobbs made reference to how "the campaign
funding scandal hasnt slowed the parties lust for soft money." And the
fourth "scandal" mention? Here it is, from Brooks Jackson: "So, you want
to be a Washington player, get next to the powerful, lobby for a tax
break or a nice ambassadors job? If youve got money, I can help.
First, youve got to get around that law they enacted back in 74 after
the Watergate scandal..."
Kaplans Grocery Bill
A federal judge ruled in late August that Rick Kaplan
must pay a penalty to Food Lion for his role as Executive Producer of
ABCs Prime Time Live when it ran the infamous undercover story
on the grocery chain. Federal Judge N. Carlton Tilley in North Carolina
reduced the jury award from $5.5 million to $315,000 in punitive
damages. The judge also lessened but did not drop the penalty on Kaplan
and producer Ira Rosen, who is still with ABC. They must each pay
$7,500, down from the original $35,000.
ABC appealed the ruling, but the judge rebuked the
tactics sanctioned by Kaplan: "Despite the many protections necessary
for the proper operation of the press, it would be a peculiar rule
indeed which immunized illegal activity, undertaken with a consciousness
of wrongdoing, from punishment and deterrence."
Clintons Bias Watchdog
Donald Baer left his White House Communications
Director post in August to help create a new media monitoring magazine,
Content. The ex-U.S. News & World Report Assistant
Managing Editor who jumped to the Clinton team as chief speechwriter in
1994, has joined the magazine to be launched in early 1998 by Steven
Brill, founder of CourtTV. A prototype, the Washington Post
reported Sept. 8, features a cover showing the Big Three anchors: "Were
Never Sorry (Just try getting the networks to make a correction.)"
But dont expect Baer to push for an article on the
media skipping many Clinton scandal developments. In a September 23,
1996 Weekly Standard profile, Christopher Caldwell relayed, "One
New Democrat who met Baer at a dinner last year described him as bland
beyond description, a fount of cliches. Clinton was the moral leader of
the Universe, and all that."
Anchors Push McCain-Feingold
Lobbying for "Reform"
On the night of the Senates first vote to invoke
cloture on the campaign finance "reform" debate, the network anchors
mourned the death of the big government McCain-Feingold bill.
As Peter Jennings put it on the October 7 World
News Tonight: "Now lets turn to getting money out of politics. In
the full Senate today campaign finance reform never had a chance.
Reformers have been trying to change the system that many people think
has caused so many of the fundraising problems but the McCain-Feingold
bill, as its called, one Republican, one Democrat, went down to defeat
On CBS, Bob Schieffer also painted more government
rules as the natural answer to 1996 campaign corruption: "For all the
outrage at the hearings today, a few hours later Senate Republican
Leader Lott went to the Senate floor and used parliamentary tactics to
prevent the Senate from voting on campaign reform legislation. That, for
all practical purposes, killed reform for another year and the
Democratic leader saw some irony in that."
NBCs Tom Brokaw rued the loss of more government
regulation: "For all the rhetoric and the outrage about what happened in
the 96 campaign, a bill that would overhaul the system was all but
killed off today in a partisan battle. It was sunk by two procedural
votes. One of which was a Republican amendment requiring labor unions to
poll their members before making campaign contributions. Democrats saw
that as a deliberate attempt to kill reform."
To the media, opponents of McCain-Feingold are simply
enemies of good government, not protectors of civil rights. This was
evident in Tom Brokaws September 26 Nightly News introduction to
a profile of Mitch McConnell, a key defender of free speech: "And
tonight NBCs Gwen Ifill tells us about a Republican Senator who is a
one-man wrecking crew when it comes to campaign finance reform and hes
proud of it."
None of the stories noted that new restrictions on who
could advertise before an election would make the media even more
influential. Nor did they alert viewers to an "evolution" of the bill.
The broadcasters got "reform" backers to drop mandatory free TV time for
Janet Cooke Award
Dateline NBCs Jane Pauley Presents Another
One-Sided Tour of the Hill-Thomas Hearings
All Hail Anita Hill, Millionaire Victim
The liberal media see the Paula Jones sexual
harassment lawsuit against President Clinton as a politicized publicity
stunt that does little more than cause pain to the Clinton family. So
why do these same media outlets keep running the propaganda films of
Anita Hill?
Not one witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee
in 1991 would confirm they witnessed any part of her wild charges
against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Not one "corroborating"
witness could even claim shed ever named Thomas as her harasser.
But media liberals do not care if rehashing these
charges again multiply the pain to Justice Thomas and his family. When
Newsday reporter Timothy Phelps wrote a pro-Hill book in 1992,
ABC and NBC interviewed him. When Wall Street Journal reporters
Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer wrote a pro-Hill book in 1994, all the
networks interviewed them, and ABC devoted a one-hour special and a
Nightline to their attacks on Thomas. Now in 1997, NBC aired two
Today interviews and two Dateline segments to help sell
Hills book a financial bonanza Hill swore before the Senate she would
never undertake. For presenting yet another tribute to Hills "courage"
without the inconvenience of an opposing view, Dateline earned
the Janet Cooke Award.
In Datelines two promotional segments on
September 29 and 30, host Jane Pauley presented Hill as a victim, making
almost no reference to Hills post-hearing career, of dozens of speaking
appearances for a fee of $10,000 to $12,000 per event, or her two-book
deal for $1 million. At the end of the second segment, Datelines
only mention of Hills good fortune was used to further glorify Hills
image. Stone Phillips announced: "Some of the profits from Hills book
are going to a scholarship fund for survivors of the Oklahoma City
After beginning with a new poll showing more people
now believe Hill than Thomas, Pauley used old pictures and current
staged photo-ops of Hill standing on her old Oklahoma farm to create
maximum sympathy. "Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hills just
released autobiography tells how the thirteenth child of a poor black
Oklahoma farmer came to face fourteen white Senators and an audience of
millions on a weekend in October few will ever forget."
Pauleys questions never reflected the possibility
that Hill had made up a story for partisan gain: "She had liked the work
and got on well with her boss until, she said, he started pressuring her
for dates and when she declined began to torment her with crude and
suggestive remarks. Ten years later, she waited for Senate investigators
to track her down as reporters already had. She agonized over what shed
tell them." She asked Hill: "Courage came slowly, didnt it?" Later, as
Hill expressed surprise that Thomas denied her charges, Pauley cooed: "I
can see the steel in your spine even as you say that."
For two nights, Pauley presented Hill as the victim of
a smear campaign and never as the creator of one. Take this sentence:
"Though her charges were explosive and potentially fatal to Clarence
Thomas career, it was Anita Hill who faced the firing line." As if
Thomas never faced a firing line that weekend.
Pauley recycled the charges made against Hill by
Republican Senators, who were asked to cross-examine Hill on her
credibility with only a couple of days to search for affidavits. For
example, Sen. Alan Simpson was quoted saying: "So if we had 104 days to
go into Miss Hill [as the Democrats had to investigate Thomas and his
personal life], to go into her background, her proclivities..." Pauley
jumped in: "Conservative columnist William Safire shared the common
interpretation that in fact proclivities was in fact a veiled
suggestion that she was a lesbian."
But if NBC had considered David Brocks book The
Real Anita Hill, they would have found what Simpson said he was
talking about: a former student of Hills at Oral Roberts University who
told Simpson that weekend that Hill had once approached him at ORU and
said in a suggestive manner "I know your favorite color is chocolate."
On an another occasion, Hill asked teasingly "Who do you think you are,
Long Dong Silver?" The student told Brock he thought of her as "the
worlds kinkiest law professor," but his father objected to requests for
an affidavit, saying it would hurt his sons career. Brock added that
Hills friend at EEOC, Diane Holt, couldnt believe Hill was presented
as a prim Baptist, when they often discussed men and sex at EEOC.
Pauley also noted: "In the end, shed be called a liar
for the record." NBC aired Sen. Arlen Specter claiming he suspected Hill
of perjury. But Thomas was also accused of lying, not only about Hill,
but about his claim hed never discussed the Roe v. Wade abortion
decision. Liberals took out ads looking for people to discredit Thomas
on that claim, but no one came forward.
By contrast, on pages 380 and 381 of Brocks book, he
lists 13 separate occasions where Hill lied or differed with dozens of
other witnesses. For example, she claimed she moved from the Education
Department to the EEOC because she thought shed be out of a job,
despite repeated explanations that she was a "career" employee, and
despite Thomass successor, Harry Singleton, saying he asked her to stay
on. But Pauley was too busy creating a sympathetic victim to review the
actual case.
Pauley mentioned Sen. John Danforth. She told Hill he
"says there was a mission of destruction, but you werent the victim he
was thinking about, Clarence Thomas was." Pauley aired Hills reaction
before asserting: "Danforth never wavered in his support of Thomas but
now admits he fought dirty and that his connivings to disseminate the
dirt about Hill even months after the hearings went too far." Pauley
returned to that thought when she concluded the second Dateline
story, referring to the first storys beginning, with the idea of Hills
parents being shocked at the scandalous allegations hurled in the
hearing room: "Former Senator Danforth, Justice Thomass Senate sponsor
said, I make no apology for trying to defend my friend. He went through
a wretched ordeal. Never again should we allow this to happen in
America. In fact, the thing Anita Hill wants most is an apology, but
not to her to her parents."
Aretha Marshall, producer of the NBC segments, did not
return MediaWatch phone calls. To complete their
promotion, NBC excerpted the Hill book on the MSNBC Web site. Despite
all the liberal media help, Hill thinks shes the victim of an unfair
press: "The medias lack of sensitivity about harassment, the brevity of
coverage allotted, along with media manipulation by White House staff
members and consultants may explain the faulty coverage. And these
factors may shed light on why, throughout the process, an independent
press went along with the Republican perspective." No surprise the
Republicans wondered whether she was divorced from reality.
Suspect Schieffer. During
the hearings on IRS abuses of taxpayers, CBS correspondent Bob Schieffer
continually questioned the motives behind them. On the September 24
This Morning, Schieffer told anchor Jane Robelot: "Republican
leaders in the Senate have sent out fundraising letters soliciting
donations by saying, Your support will help us to end the reign of
terror of the IRS. So, while its true there are certainly some reforms
needed in the IRS, I think because these fundraising letters have been
sent out, a lot of people think these hearings are suspect."
On that weekends Face the Nation, Schieffer
conceded his bias in a question to Senator Orrin Hatch: "I think one
reason that a lot of people in Washington, and I include myself in that
group, did not take these hearings all that seriously in the beginning
is that the Republicans sent out some fairly odious, in my view,
fundraising letters where they said, you know, send us ten dollars and
well help bring pressure to get rid of the IRS. And I think people, in
some cases, saw these hearings as just a part of a Republican
fundraising effort...But do you think its not such a good idea in
retrospect to be, trying to raise money on the idea of eliminating the
Sheila Who? On the October 2
World News Tonight, ABCs Sam Donaldson asked: "Remember Sheila
Heslin, the former White House National Security Council official who
told the Senate committee how she did her best to keep the notorious oil
pipeline entrepreneur and big bucks Democratic contributor, Roger Tamraz,
from obtaining a private meeting with President Clinton?"
How could you remember Heslin if you were a loyal
viewer of World News Tonight? ABC hadnt introduced her. When
Heslin testified before the Senate Governmental Affairs committee on
September 17 about how she was pressured to give Tamraz a personal
meeting with President Clinton, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw called it "the
most compelling evidence so far of just how far the Clinton
administration would go to raise money for its campaign." But NBC was
the only broadcast network to air Heslins story.
Donaldson revealed the Justice Department has decided
not to pay Heslins legal bill "which amounts to thousands of dollars."
He continued: "It is said that virtue is its own reward. But having to
pay for the honor of possessing it would probably strike most people as
grossly unfair and the betting here is that one way or the other Uncle
Sam will eventually pick up the tab."
One America? The networks
portrayed the Presidents national racial advisory board as Americas
last great hope for racial healing and open-mindedness. But if the
networks closely examined the diversity boards members they would have
discovered the opinions of the board are anything but diverse.
In the October 13 National Review, Evan Gahr
highlighted the very narrow and liberal views of the boards members.
Gahr noted board member and California lawyer Angela Oh justified the
criminal actions during the Los Angeles riots of 1992. "There is no way
in hell that the events of the past several days can be placed on our
shoulders, black or Korean...The chaos was the result of much larger
failures political, economic, and social."
Gahr revealed panel chairman John Hope Franklins
monolithic version of diversity in describing Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas: "You always have such people in any group...I suspect
they may be Judases of a kind...betrayers, opportunists, immoral
opportunists. Its very tempting, I suppose, for people of weak
character to be co-opted by the majority that can use them." Franklin
also blamed GOP critics of quotas: "In an atmosphere of tolerance of
racial bigotry parading under the banner of racial neutrality, white
students have been encouraged to intimidate, terrorize, and make life
miserable for African-American students at many of our institutions."
On the June 13 NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw
overlooked all this when he announced the new Clinton panel: "President
Clinton tonight launched a campaign to try to narrow this countrys
racial division. He held a meeting with his newly appointed task force
on race relations, which is headed by historian John Hope Franklin. And
tomorrow the President will give a major speech on the subject in San
Diego. The theme here: promoting racial healing to create, what he
calls, one America."
Honesty: Not the Best Policy.
When University of Texas (UT) law professor Lino Graglia spoke out
against racial quotas in college admissions, saying they lead to the
admission of blacks and Hispanics who "are not academically competitive
with whites," it caused an uproar among the liberal student body and the
liberal networks. Good Morning America devoted a segment to the
controversy. NBCs Today aired a debate between Graglia and a
Latino student, preceded by a Jim Cummins news story. NBC showed Graglia
in sinister-looking slow motion accompanied by Cummins: "Michael
Sherlott, Dean of the University of Texas Law School, says Graglias
remarks are regrettable." After a Graglia soundbite from his news
conference ("Im afraid there is no way that I can avoid being called
racist"), Cummins concluded: "A subject for discussion, perhaps, in the
course he teaches on race relations."
On the September 16 CBS Evening News, Dan
Rather introduced the story as "a new reminder tonight of our racial
problems." Reporter Bob McNamara opened "At the University of Texas,
where a white law professors remarks about minority students stunned a
campus, Reverend Jesse Jackson came wading into the fray," followed by a
soundbite of Jackson urging a boycott of Graglia.
Without debating the substance of Graglias remarks,
McNamara focused on student outrage and calls for Graglias ouster,
claiming "the furor over the remarks is part of the fallout of a federal
court ruling outlawing affirmative action recruiting programs at all
colleges in Texas." McNamara warned darkly: "Administrators promise an
investigation, and until the findings are known, Professor Lino Graglia
remains professor non grata."
But The Weekly Standard noted Graglias remarks
matched what UT official Mark Gergen wrote in a 1989 memo: "It is
impossible to make meaningful distinctions between Black and MA
[Mexican- American] applicants without some sort of quota as a
reference, for compared to our Anglo applicants, virtually none would
get in. In prior years I could rationalize what I did as admitting all
who had a decent chance of succeeding in law school. Experience proves
many of those I voted for could not compete."
No Extremists on the Left.
Greenpeace is an organization that defines itself by radical politics
and radical tactics. They chain themselves to ships, trespass and show
little respect for property rights, a sort of green militia. But the
media dont present them as extreme. On September 16, Peter Jennings
began: "One of the worlds most familiar organizations has acknowledged
it is in terrible trouble. The environmental group Greenpeace, which has
led the way in confronting those who they regard as doing harm to the
environment, has been obliged to reduce its American operation
Positive Greenpeace spin also came from anchor Aaron
Brown on the August 16 edition of World News Tonight: "These are
difficult days for the environmental group Greenpeace, probably the best
known, and most active of all the environmental groups."
Greenpeace was described as "familiar," "active," and
"well known." But consider a conservative group thats faced declining
membership the NRA. On May 19, 1995, Peter Jennings began World
News Tonight: "We begin tonight with the National Rifle Association,
one of the most feared, most criticized, and most resilient lobbying
groups in the nation." Or try Carole Simpson introducing a NRA story on
the May 5, 1997 World News Tonight, run right after a look at the
Republic of Texas militia: "It is extremist groups, like the one in
Texas, that the National Rifle Association hopes to distance itself
But the spin does not end with the anchors. Take ABC
reporters on why the groups lost support. In 1995, Judy Muller found
extremism: "The NRAs recent reputation as a group representing more
radical elements has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars of
membership dues among some high-profile resignations." For Greenpeace,
reporter Ned Potter noted tactics, but not ideology: "Maybe that
confrontational image backfired...But Greenpeace disagrees. Sure, maybe
it needs some leaner management, it says, but you save more oceans by
making picturesque protests than by lobbying like everyone else." Potter
concluded warmly: "Greenpeace will keep going, but its having to
reexamine itself at a time when it says the worlds problems are as
urgent as ever."
Importing New Welfare Victims.
After Congress passed a law limiting food stamp eligibility for
immigrants, for the September 28 Evening News CBS found a
sympathetic "victim" of the new policy. Anchor John Roberts introduced
Sharyl Attkissons story: "In this country many poor legal immigrants
are now being forced to live without food stamps. Tough new welfare
rules are limiting who gets federal help. And as Sharyl Attkisson
reports, the immigrant community is struggling to cope."
Her story focused on legal immigrant Moises Sapiro, a
recent Russian emigre who doesnt work, cant speak English and gets $15
a month of food stamps "to help him survive in America," aid halted by
the new law. Attkisson saw Sapiro as just one example in an onrushing
wave of imperiled immigrants: "About a million legal immigrants are
losing their food stamps, so the states are being forced to step in.
Eleven already have started new food aid programs." But she didnt
question how losing fifty cents a day would imperil Sapiros "survival."
Attkisson did allow Rep. Bob Goodlatte to explain that
the law simply insisted that newly legalized immigrants hold up their
end of the bargain by supporting themselves: "It is...a very fair thing
to do, to simply say, this is the agreement you reached when you came
into this country." But Attkisson countered by visiting a church deacon
who fretted over his ability to feed the expected onslaught of hungry
immigrants, noting: "Its too soon to know how many will be looking for
new help. But food banks across the country run by charities are already
strained." She concluded by relaying fear of impending horrors: "For
those who are seeing their grocery money slashed, theres a real anxiety
about where theyll get their next meal."
Scary Harry. In a September
28 60 Minutes profile of calypso singer Harry Belafonte, Ed
Bradley described him as "a singer, actor, producer, and ambassador for
human rights." Really? So why does Bradleys human rights ambassador
back the Cuban dictatorship? In 1992, he was listed as a supporter of
the worldwide rallies sponsored by Peace for Cuba International Appeal.
Flyers distributed by rally organizers stated: "The Pentagon is
practicing invasion exercises while Bush attacks Cuba for resisting his
new world order. A strong rally will let Bush and the Pentagon know
that they dont have a free hand to make war against Cuba."
On Donahue in 1994, Belafonte did not blame the
failure of "democratic" Marxism in developing nations on Marxism, but on
the U.S.: "Whether its Aristide, or its [Salvador] Allende in
Chile...or its [Patrice] Lumumba [in the Congo], everywhere you look,
when...people have had miserable consequence [sic] in their efforts of
trying to become democratic, you find America at the center of it all."
Bradley saw no irony in a man who rails against
anti-communist policies, but when reflecting on what the U.S. has
afforded him, stated: "Life has been overwhelmingly rewarding for me.
And Ive looked at it and Ive said my God, to have come from abject
poverty and to now be told that I am a national treasure, wow what a
Frenzy Over Princess Diana's
Death Buries Senate Fundraising Hearing Coverage
Celebrity Culture Sinks Politics Again
In July, MediaWatch noted how compelling details of
the Senate fundraising hearings were buried by the media frenzy over the
murder of designer Gianni Versace, with a Versace-to-hearings ratio of 7
to 1 on the network morning shows.
At the end of August, Britain's Princess Diana died in
a car crash. While the death of the most photographed woman in the world
is news, it is certainly not as important as a fundraising imbroglio
implicating President Clinton and Vice President Gore, the two most
powerful men in the world.
Or is it? MediaWatch analysts examined fundraising
scandal stories in August and September on the Big Three morning shows
and evening shows, plus CNN's The World Today. The networks broadcast
686 stories on Diana between August 31 and the end of September compared
to just 113 stories about the fundraising scandal. That's a ratio of
more than 6 to 1. Isolating the morning shows, collectively they aired
407 stories on Princess Diana's death, while devoting just 36 to the
scandal. That's an astonishing ratio of 10 to 1.
In August, the networks combined for a paltry total of
16 full stories and five anchor briefs on the evening shows, and five
full stories and two briefs in the morning. In the evening, ABC aired
only one fundraising story in the whole month. CBS was next with four
full stories and one brief, followed by NBC Nightly News with five full
stories (mostly about Johnny Chung) and two anchor briefs. CNN The World
Today ran the most coverage with six full stories and two anchor briefs.
TV coverage picked up when Sen. Fred Thompson's
Governmental Affairs Committee reconvened hearings in September, but
many disclosures were missed. The evening shows broadcast a total of 51
full stories of scandal coverage with 25 anchor briefs.
Like most other months this year, most networks
skipped fundraising stories on a majority of their broadcasts. In
September's 30 days, with the Thompson hearings in their most dramatic
stage, the morning shows were all guilty (CBS 28 days with no story, NBC
24, ABC 22). In the evening, CBS, ABC (both 20 nights off) and NBC (19)
took more than half the month off, while only CNN (12) didn't.
The Big Three morning shows aired a total of 21 full
stories and 17 anchor briefs on the fundraising scandal. Like July and
August, the morning shows did not have a single member of the Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee on to discuss the hearings.
CBS This Morning broadcast just two anchor briefs and
one full story, and it was about Justice Department inquiries, not the
Thompson hearings. That's three reports compared to 109 on Diana's
death. On ABC's Good Morning America, the Diana-to- scandal ratio was
145 to 17. Like the Versace story, NBC's Todaybroadcast the most Diana
segments with 153, versus 18 segments on fundraising.
CNN's The World Today showed 92 segments on Princess
Diana's death while airing 34 segments on fundraising in September. CNN
offered a segment on the Thompson hearings almost every day they were in
session in September. Though The World Today had about twice the stories
as the other newscasts, the show is twice as long.
In the evening, NBC aired the second most stories,
devoting 15 segments to the fundraising story, compared to 66 on Diana.
CBS broadcast 67 segments about Diana, but just 14 about the fundraising
scandal. ABC showed the least Diana segments (46) but only aired 12
stories on fundraising, creating the greatest discrepancy between Diana
news and fundraising news at a ratio of almost 4 to 1.
In addition to spotty coverage of the Thompson
hearings, the networks continued to ignore interesting print
developments in the scandal:
August 5: A New York
Daily News story detailed how Al Gore made at least 48 calls from the
White House, many more than he previously admitted. Coverage: None at
that time.
August 8: The Washington
Post reported the DNC handed over 4,000 pages of documents from the
files of its former Finance Chairman Richard Sullivan after he
testified, rendering them almost useless to the committee. Coverage:
August 1: NBC aired an
interview with Johnny Chung, who told viewers that aides to Energy
Secretary Hazel O'Leary demanded he make a $25,000 contribution to the
Secretary's favorite charity before he could discuss arranging a meeting
with her. But CBS News viewers didn't hear about the scandal until
almost a full month later. Through September, ABC News viewers still had
not heard Chung's explosive charges about O'Leary.
September 6: The
Washington Post published an article alleging that Al Gore knew the
nature of the Buddhist temple event because he referred to it as a
"fundraiser" in an e-mail he sent to a staffer. Coverage: Zero.
September 9: DNC Chairman
Don Fowler testified before the Senate Government Affairs Committee.
Despite saturation coverage of RNC Chairman Haley Barbour's appearance a
few months before, neither ABC's World News Tonight nor any morning show
filed a report.
September 11: Gene and
Nora Lum, big Democratic contributors and major players in the
fundraising scandal, were sentenced to 10 months in prison for hiding
illegal donations to Senator Ted Kennedy's re-election campaign.
Coverage: Zilch. Also, Clinton's National Security Adviser Sandy Berger
testified before the Thompson committee. Coverage: only CNN, and ABC
(for 18 seconds).
September 12: The Los
Angeles Times reported that top intelligence officials told the Thompson
panel that Ted Sioeng, a big Democratic donor, may have been the conduit
for money and a major player in a Chinese scheme to influence the U.S.
elections. Network coverage: nothing.
September 18: The
Washington Post story was headlined "Papers Show Use of DNC Ads to Help
Clinton." The story quoted consultant Dick Morris on how the Clinton
campaign could evade the spirit of election laws and press its
advertising themes with DNC soft money. Network coverage at that time?
September 19: A trio of
Democratic consultants plead guilty to funneling union money into
Teamsters' President Ron Carey's re-election campaign. Coverage: Only
CNN, and a Good Morning America anchor brief on ABC.
September 26: The Los
Angeles Times reported a Senate deposition of Clinton aide Harold Ickes
revealed he witnessed Clinton make calls from the White House. Network
coverage? ABC and NBC did zero, CBS Evening News gave it 21 seconds, and
CNN had noted the deposition on the 12th.
the Bright Side
Most network news reports from Europe extol the
virtues of socialism, so it must have been a surprise for viewers of
Nightline to see the September 16 look at Swedens attempt to build
the master race.
Ted Koppel opened: "Eugenics sterilization, this
belief that we can protect or even improve the human race by social
engineering, by deciding who should or who should not be permitted to
have children has, it turns out, been fairly widespread. It was carried
out to its most obscene limits, of course, in Nazi Germany. That, we
knew. What most of us didnt know was that it was carried out long after
the end of the Second World War in a country renowned, as John Laurence
now reports, as one of the most enlightened."
After outlining the socialist ideal of equality,
Laurence continued: "There is also a dark side to Sweden. Now it is
known that for 40 years, between 1935 and 1976, Swedish doctors
routinely sterilized tens of thousands of people, mostly poor, mostly
young, mostly women." Those seen as less desirable were identified,
including gypsies and Jews.
As the show ended Koppel observed: "What is so
mind-boggling about this, John, is were talking about the Swedes here.
Were not talking about a bunch of fascists in World War II Germany, and
yet, this happened in this paradise of social engineering."
Good News About Guns
For all the stories filled with anecdotes about
accidental shootings NBC actually aired a story on the upside of gun
On the September 26 Nightly News Tom Brokaw
introduced a Kerry Sanders piece: "As senior citizens become more and
more visible in our society and with their rising level of affluence,
the sad fact is they are also becoming more popular as targets of
crime...But in Florida fair warning from the Jacksonville area. They are
not afraid to fight back even if it means shooting back."
Sanders talked to a waitress at a restaurant that was
robbed at gunpoint. After she described her initial fright Sanders went
to a heroic customer: "As she marched with the gun in her back a
security camera shows most of the 40 customers hiding under the tables.
But not 69 year old Ryland Moore."
After Moore recounted his shooting of the robber
Sanders noted how the elderly were taking advantage of the concealed
weapons law. "Nationwide an increasing number of elderly are taking gun
safety classes and then carrying pistols for protection."
Sanders did talk to a local deputy worried about the
danger of gun use, but he gave the last word to a resolute Moore. "So
when you replay this in your mind, any mistakes?" Moore replied he
wished he had a bigger gun so, "I would have stopped him dead."
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Even Liberals See Liberal Bias
Only Media Still in Denial
Journalists are about the only group still refusing to
acknowledge liberal media bias. A recent poll found that even liberals
see a liberal over a conservative bias. The Center for Media and Public
Affairs retained the Louis Harris Organization to conduct a poll of
3,000 people about attitudes toward the press. Amongst the findings
reported in the May/June edition of the centers newsletter:
n "Majorities of all major groups in the population,
including 70 percent of self-described liberals, now see a fair amount
or great deal of bias in the news. Only among high school dropouts
does the perception of bias drop below 60 percent; among college
graduates it rises above 80 percent. In general, perceptions of bias
rise along with levels of education and political participation."
n "Those who see a liberal tilt outnumber those who
detect a conservative bias by more than a two to one margin. Forty three
percent describe the news medias perspective on politics as liberal,
compared to 33 percent who see it as a middle of the road, and 19
percent who find it to be conservative."
n "Even self-described liberals agree: 41 percent see
the media as liberal, compared to only 22 percent who find the news to
be conservative. Among self-designated conservatives, of course, the
spread is even greater: 57 percent say the media are liberal and 19
percent see them as conservative."
The newsletter explained how these results disprove
what reporters contend: "These findings challenge the argument of some
journalists that bias is purely in the eye of the beholder" since
"moderates and liberals alike see liberal bias in the media twice as
often as they see conservative bias."
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Wheaton, Ill. – The Wheaton College football team earned a 49-21 victory against visiting Elmhurst College (3-2/1-1 CCIW) under warm and sunny conditions in front a Homecoming crowd at McCully Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Wheaton, ranked 19th in this week's D3football.com Top-25 poll, is now 4-1 on the year and 1-1 in CCIW play. Wheaton will travel to North Park next Saturday afternoon for a 2 PM kickoff in Chicago against the Vikings.
Thunder quarterback Garrett Meador threw for a career-high 422 yards as he completed 31 of his 45 passing attempts with four TD passes and no interceptions. Three Thunder receivers surpassed the 100-yard milestone, led by Teddy Watkins' 140 yards, on seven receptions, with two TD catches. Justin Zeller caught nine passes for 124 yards, with one touchdown grab and freshman Mark Hiben caught six passes for 103 yards and one TD catch. Sophomore Justin Swider led the Thunder rushing attack with 42 yards on 12 carries, with one touchdown run.
Senior Jordan Langs led the Thunder with nine tackles. Sam VanHeest made seven tackles, with a quarterback sack. Jordan Higgins and Richard Jacobson each made six total tackles. Higgins forced a fumble and Jacobson recorded two tackles for loss, including a quarterback sack. Tony Vargyas snatched an interception and JD East recorded two sacks (-16 yards) in his five total tackles.
Scottie Williams led the Elmhurst offense with 194 yards on 26 carries. Joe Furco tossed the football for 317 yards and three touchdowns as he completed 24 of his 43 passing attempts. Rodney Payton caught seven passes for 82 yards, with one touchdown catch. George DeMaria led the Bluejays' defense with 10 tackles, including a tackle for loss and a forced fumble.
Wheaton jumped out to a 16-0 lead in the first quarter with a 15-yard touchdown pass to Watkins, a one-yard TD run by Swider and a 25-yard field goal by Scott Roche in the opening quarter.
Jesse Geary increased Wheaton's lead to 23-0 on a two-yard touchdown run with 10:57 left in the second quarter. Elmhurst's first score of the day came with 9:32 left in the second quarter on a 31-yard touchdown pass for a 23-7 Wheaton lead. Meador connected with Hiben for a 28-yard touchdown pass with 8:03 left in the first half to increase Wheaton's lead to 29-7. Wheaton held a 36-7 lead at halftime thanks to an 18-yard TD pass from Meador to Watkins with 3:57 left in the first half.
Furco tossed an 18-yard touchdown pass for the guests early in the third quarter to cut Wheaton's lead to 36-14. Meador connected with Zeller on a 23-yard touchdown pass with 5:51 left in the third quarter to increase the Thunder advantage to 43-14. Roche booted field goals of 32 and 22 yards to increase the 'Orange and Blue' lead to 49-14. The final points of the game were the result of a 28-yard Elmhurst touchdown pass with 13:05 left in the game to account for the final Wheaton advantage of 49-21.
With today's win, Wheaton now leads the all-time series with the Bluejays 53-19-7 and has won 12 of the last 13 meetings between the two conference rivals. The Bluejays have not won at Wheaton since a 52-21 victory in 1982.


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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY – For the second time in three years, sabre fencer Robin Shin will represent the MIT Fencing team at the NCAA National Championships. Shin qualified for the National Championships after placing 5th in the NCAA Regional finals held Sunday at Vassar College.
Navigating through 49 of the best fencers in the Northeast, Shin made the final pool of 12 and won 7 of her 11 round robin bouts to finish fifth overall. Along the way, Robin beat three fencers from Columbia University. There are 18 schools in the Northeast Region, the hardest fencing region in the country because it boasts most of the Ivy League Colleges, the toughest competitors in the fencing circuit, as well as powerhouse St. John's.
The accomplishment is significant for any Division III school to qualify against Division 1 programs, where fencers are brought in on scholarships and are often members of Olympic teams, as were several of the fencers Shin competed against at Vassar. Only the top 24 fencers in the country earn passage to Nationals in their discipline. Shin has been MIT's only entrant in the past three years.
"It's been amazing to have someone from D3 compete at the division 1 level in the strongest region in the country. Her qualification to the NCAAs is a very significant accomplishment, and it proves her impressive record through the entire year. She proved she can compete with the best people in the country," said fencing coach Jarek Koniusz.
Shin was able to stay composed and focus on her performance, according to her coach. "She is very light on her feet and is trying to outsmart the opponent, and has been doing it very well," said Koniusz, who noted that Robin made some adjustments to improve her attacks by the end of the day.
While the Regionals are mostly about individual achievement and qualifying, there is a team component to fencing and the support of her teammates was very important to Robin's success.
MIT had 16 fencers qualify for the Regional Competition, and many of them had outstanding showings. Fellow women's sabre fencers Molly Kozminsky placed 14th in the Regional Competition and narrowly missed out on an alternate slot to Nationals. Elena Tartarchenko took 16th place home in the sabre competition. Kirsten Hessler was 29th in women's epee and Jenna Caldwell's 24th place finish was the best result by an MIT women's foil fencer.
On the men's side, Maximilian Brand took 20th in the sabre competition while Benjamin Nield was 21st in men's foil. Epee fencers Joseph Rafidi (19th) and Jackson Crane (22nd) also had strong showings at Regionals.
"I am very pleased with the performance of our fencers overall," said Koniusz. "Robin's performance was very impressive and her qualification was due to the work of the entire team."
Shin will travel to the NCAA Nationals at Ohio State University. She will compete against the best fencers in the country on Saturday, March 26th, beginning at 9 PM and will continue round robin fencing on Sunday, March 27th, with the top four competing in head to head competition.


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The Summer Institute is an intense workshop and lecture series geared toward individuals who are interested in the title subjects: sustainability and energy. From August 7 to 15, a diverse body of participants will be immersed in a broad spectrum of topics of interest to economists, political scientists, urban planners, architects, scientists and future entrepreneurs. Participants will further delve into these issues by visiting sustainable sites in the Chicago area and by working to solve challenging scenarios in sustainability and energy.
Graduates of the Summer Institute will acquire a "big picture" appreciation and comprehension of the issues on the local, national and international levels. This program aims to provide a firm foundation for future academic, professional, government and entrepreneurial careers in sustainability and energy.
Applications for the Summer Institute are now being accepted. Admission to the program will be highly competitive with an enrollment cap of only 50. Participants will be primarily graduate students, but senior-level undergraduates and postdoctoral fellows will also be accepted. Participants should have an expressed interest in sustainability and energy as evidenced by either educational or practical experience.
To learn more about The Summer Institute, visit them online at http://sise.phy.uic.edu.
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A new €71m (£61m) research and incubator facility for graphene at the University of Manchester, UK, has been given planning consent. Designed by Jestico + Whiles, the 7,600 sq m National Graphene Institute is scheduled to open in 2015 and will include a 1,500 sq m research lab.
Offering almost unlimited potential for uses from IT to medicine to energy, graphene is the world's strongest and thinnest material. Composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, it is stronger than diamond, has the same flexibility as rubber and conducts better than copper. Suggested uses for the material have included flexible touchscreens, lighting within walls and enhanced batteries.
The five-storey building will house two clean rooms together with laser, optical, metrology and chemical laboratories, a seminar room and offices. An important element of the design includes locating the main clean room on the lower ground floor in order to minimise vibrations.
An integral part of the design is the mix of labs and offices on all floors so that individual research teams have access to all the various facilities. This decision comes after more than 150 companies, including globally-recognised electrical companies, expressed interest in operating within the new graphene institution.
The European Commission recently awarded €1bn, the biggest grant ever awarded for research excellence, to 126 research groups to develop commercial graphene applications. With this increase in graphene-based research and a global interest in the production of the material, the need for a research facility in the UK is paramount.
First isolated in 2004 by Russian-born professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester, the scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 and received knighthoods for their work in graphene. Building on their knowledge of the material, the new facility will be designed under the supervision of Professor Novoselov.
Despite the pioneering work being carried out at a UK university, Britain has been accused of lagging behind other countries in terms of commercialising the use of graphene. China is the country with the biggest number of graphene patent publications since 2007 with 2,204, followed by the USA and South Korea, according to figures published by UK-based patent consultancy, CambridgeIP.
The new institute will therefore put Britain at the forefront of graphene research, with €44m (£38m) of the funding coming from the British government and further funds coming from the European Regional Development Fund. As well as the new facility at the University of Manchester, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has said that the UK government will invest a total of €70m (£60m) in further funding for research into the material.
Tony Ling, Director at Jestico + Whiles, said: "Jestico + Whiles is delighted to being working on this world-leading research centre and support the UK's eminence in the development of this revolutionary material. The race to close the gap between research and industry, and capitalise on the value of graphene is highly competitive internationally."
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Breaking news: Former Penn State Football Coach  Joe Paterno, who won more Division I NCAA football games than any other coach, died on Sunday morning, his family announced. He was 85.
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The Cajón | Get your Drum on for Learn to Play Day
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The Cajón Uprising | Get Your Drum on for Learn to Play Day
This traditional Peruvian drum has been making an appearance in a lot of contemporary acoustic music lately.
So, with learn to play day coming up on 31st March, we thought we would get you properly introduced to another awesome percussion instrument...
So you can be on your way to multi-instrumentalism in no time.
Check out this cover of Maroon 5's She Will be Loved, with a simple cajón and acoustic guitar accompaniment
It's Been Around A While!
The cajón is the most widely used Afro-Peruvian instrument since the late 1700s and is believed to have came from slave musicians in the Spanish Colonial Americas.
Some say that "slaves simply used boxes as musical instruments to combat contemporary Spanish colonial bans on music in predominantly African areas. In this way, cajónes could easily be disguised as seats or stools, thus avoiding identification as musical instruments."
The cajón is a wooden box with a single soundhole on one side (opposite the head or tapa), similar to that of an acoustic guitar. The player sits astride the box, tilting it at an angle while striking the head between his knees.
The drum is played with the palms of the hands and fingertips. The sides of the box are usually constructed from half to three quarter inch (1.3 to 2 cm) thick wood with a thin sheet of plywood is nailed on as the sixth side and acts as the striking surface or head.
The cajón produces two main sounds, a bass tone and a sharp, which is played with the finger tips. The bass tone is achieved from attacking the upper centre of the tapa with cupped hands. Players cup their hands as to not harm their finger joints with prolonged playing. The top corners of the cajón are left unfastened, so the sharp tone can snap against the drums casing.
Experience A Cajón Ensemble...
Many modern musicians have been utilising the simplicity of the cajón. Some have begun inserting various materials into the drums cabinet in order to achieve a wider range of sounds. For example, some drummers include rattles, snares and even guitar strings into their instruments, producing a buzz like effect or tone which adds a nice texture to a stripped acoustic set. Other playing techniques include the use of plastic or metal brushes to strike the drum, just like a snare drum.
Dolphin's collection of cajónes includes some mainstreaming drums and a couple of cajón bongos which are not seen out and about so often. We have some incredibly affordable cajónes for you to get started, like the Black Rat Cajón in natural that comes together with a black gig bag... and it's only £53.00!
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text: More polygamist news! About 100 of the of the 437 children taken from the Yearning for Zion FLDS compound in Texas earlier this month have been put into foster care. Members of the FLDS are criticizing the transfer, saying it was done without prior notice to the families. Currently, the children are being tested to see who their biological parents are. Church members have also set up a website (uh, is that allowed?) with photos of damages (a few broken doorknobs and an unopened plastic bin) and are asking for donations. Don't save Darfur, save oppressive religious fundamentalists! [CNN & Captive FLDS Children]