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[GM] The Godfather
This script is not recommended for new scripters!!
First Thread: http://forum.sa-mp.com/index.php?topic=81410.0
As some of you readers might have witnessed that the Godfather server is no longer running my script, as they were trying to trash me as soon a different script would be out since i wasn't active to much anymore.
Because of that i made some drastic actions, that might have been to harsh actually, but what done is done.
Now since alot of people still think i have left so much of PEN1 inside my script, you are about to witness that i've created way to many features that will silence those people once and for all.
This is not a desperate decision of the actions i have taken on the Godfather server, it's just that i'm done with scripting for SA-MP and i hope other people can enjoy of what i've created.
Also some of the people of the Godfather community might read this, and said Brando has worked with me on this script...which is not true.
Brando's only thing he has done ever in the script, was to make a simple call function, he never had his hands on the source (last 3 versions).
Before we begin with the rest of the information about the mode, first some backside information:
Just to begin with, i've never taken any credit of parts that were created by Astro (Denver) aka Denver the creator of PEN1. Valhalla Gaming Comunity has indeed paid me for this very script you are about to read, where they only paid for the systems and parts that were created by me. They received this script a few months ago, and their server owner is trying to rip me off. Due to this fact + i'm not scripting anymore, i release this script so that everyone can use it. Credits to Astro. Credits to Tratulla for his 2 .ini Functions. Credits to the Fuel System creator on SA-MP forums. Credits to Morph for the Name Showing timer.
I can point out already, that some systems look big when you take a look in the source, that's because my knowledge in this scripting grown more lately on then when i began with scripting and then used more arrays as only 1 enum for big system as you will see eventually.
Also stuff that was created in Godfather v1, might still have some stuff in there that might look like a piece of Noob code .
I have to warn you though, since the Godfather Server worked with a Registration script (PHP) i don't have a registration system in the mode, but i'm sure you scripters around here can make one, as it only takes 5 - 10 mins :P.
Now that's all taken care of, let's start with the mode systems & functions.
(Credits to: Antonio_Morelli, For a look on ALL commands: http://www.randombrando.com/gta_foru...ead.php?t=3105)
Mode information:
Static Factions:
- Police Department
- FBI/ATF Team.
- National Guard.
- Medical Department (Ambulances & Firemen).
- La Cosa Nostra.
- Yakuza.
- Mayor.
- Hitman Agency.
- CNN Studio.
- Taxi Cab Company.
- School Instructors (License system).
- Will react only if you registered a new account.
- You must fill in your <censored> (Male / Female).
- You must fill in your birthdate (Will automaticly calculate what age you are).
- You must fill in your Origin (Based on this, you will spawn somewhere in SA).
- After all the filling in options, you will get a tutorial containing rules etc..
Leader System (Dynamic):
- Admin can appoint a player that will then Lead a Faction (of above).
- Leader can invite Civilians (With faulty check system in it).
- Leader can kick players out.
- Leader can assign Ranks to his Members.
- As soon a Leader invites a Civilian, it will check what that Civilian will become and teleports him somewhere, where the Civilian can choose a skin that comes with that Faction.
Family System (Dynamic):
- This is done by the 2 Organisation Leader (La Cosa Nostra & Yakuza).
- Both the Organisations can recruit 5 families.
- Both the Organisations can delete their own Families.
- Players can check which families are created, and who's the Leader of it.
- Players can check which players are in a family.
- Leaders of a Family can adjust anything they like (Name / MOTD / Color / Spawn).
- Leaders can Invite / Uninvite players or give them a Rank.
Turf System (Needs some tweaks..) (Dynamic):
- There are several turfs that can be given to Families by Organistaion Leaders.
- As soon a Family get's a Turf, it will become their Color (Not fully working i think as they keep being grey).
House System:
- Still in because it was so nicely created by Astro.
Business System (Looks like Astro's, but is rewritten plus different functions):
- Uses products instead of Components & Products.
- Owner name will be shown when entering the icon.
- Extortioner name will be shown when entering the icon.
- Coordinates of going in and out will be saved.
- Level requirement active aswell.
- Basicly some of the stuff that Astro had, only i reduced it and went to Products and added Extortion.
Extortion System:
- Owners of a Business can assign a player as the business's extortioner.
- Owners of a Business can also delete the extortioner of their business.
- As soon a Business earns money, and it has an extortioner it will check if the extortioner is online and will give him 10% of the earnings the Business is about to get.
Karting System (Business):
- Located at the docks, and as soon 2 players or more are in a kart, there will be a message after 15 seconds that a race will start (Message will only be send who is in a kart).
- Automatictly ends the Kart Round after 4 minutes (Just some extra security).
- Checks whoever gets 1st / 2nd / 3rd.
- Checks if more then 2 people are still racing during a Kart Round, if not, the Round will be ended.
Paintball System (Business):
- Located at San Fierro, and as soon 2 players or more are in the Painball Arena, there will be a message after 15 seconds that a fight will start (Message will only be send who is in the area).
- Automatictly ends the Paintball Round after 4 minutes and will announce the Winner.
IRC System (NO not real, just for private channels) (Dynamic):
- Admins can assign a Channel to any player, and that player will then lead that Channel.
- Leader of a channel can set the MOTD / Set a Password / Set if a a Password is needed to come in or not / Lock the Channel / Kick someone.
- As soon you try to join a Channel, it will check if you need a Password or not.
- If you join or leave, everyone in that Channel will receive a message.
- Players can check how many players are in a Channel, and who the leader is of a Channel.
- Players use /i to talk in their Channel.
Mayor System:
- Only 1 mayor, assigned by an Admin.
- Mayor can set the Tax, that will be paid by every player online at PayDay.
- Mayor can give some of the Tax away to every online Cop / FBI / National Guard automaticly (Since Cops etc... have a bad income).
Prison System (Area51):
- Cops / FBI / National Guard can "deliver" players to Fort Demorgan (Area51) and that players is in jail for 1 hour at least.
- Players can't leave the Fort (Should be adjusted perhaps for more fun).
- National Guard (they were guarding the Fort in Godfather Server) can use the Security Building and use 6 cameras for activity.
Marriage System:
- Players can marry each other and share their House & Business.
- Players can divorce each other (One of them will have no House & Business).
- Players can propose to other players.
- Players need a witness in order to Marry.
- Players marry at the church in San Fierro.
Newpaper System (Dynamic):
- A maximum of 10 papers can be created.
- The Newspaper Faction can create a title and lines as a newspaper and it will be saved automaticly.
- Paper Boys can deliver created Newspapers at the Paper Building to players.
- Paper Boys & Newspaper Faction can check if there are any Newspapers.
- Players can read a Newspaper.
Skill System:
Job System:
- Scatterd around LS and SF their are several locations where Civilians can get a job.
- The Job information and name will be shown as soon you walk into the icon.
- You can only get a job if you don't have one yet, and are not in a Family / Faction.
- As soon you accept the job, you get a Job Contract, which you have to forfill for at least 5 hours (ingame time) untill you can quit it.
- When you have a Job, you have access to several commands.
Detective: /find.
Lawyer: /free.
Whore: /<censored>.
Drugs Dealer: /selldrugs.
Car Jacker: Jack any car & /dropcar (sell a car).
Car Mechanic: /repair /refill /duty.
Bodyguard: /guard.
Arms Dealer: /materials /sellgun.
Car Dealer: /sellcar.
Boxer: /boxstats /fight.
Paperboy: /papers /bring /deliver.
CK (Character Kill) System (Dynamic):
- There are only 10 spaces available, if full the CK can't be requested.
- Players can request a Character Kill on someone else, and must be accepted by an Admin.
- Admins can delete the CK out of the list if they don't agree.
- As soon an Admin allows a CK, the system will check if both those players are online.
- If the player kills the other player that he / she wanted to CK, that player is CK'd and can't login on that account anymore.
- If the player that is about to be CK'd, but kills the player that requested the CK, that player instead is CK'd and got pwned and has same result as above.
License System (An idea by someone on the Godfather Forum, thats why it's created this way, noy my own way):
- License Faction can RP their lessons, and eventually give one of the Licenses available (Driving / Flying / Sailing / Fishing / Weapon).
- License Faction can start a lesson (Car / Plane) with a player so he / she can enter that vehicle (Else that vehicle is locked).
- License Faction can easily stop the lesson.
- Cops / FBI / National Guard can take away players Licenses.
- Players can show their Licenses to other players.
Drinking System:
- Players can drink at several pubs and special places.
- Players can choose several things to drink.
- Drinks that contain alcohol can eventually get you drunk for a while.
- If a player is drunk, he will walk drunk every xx seconds (Can be adjusted if you like).
- If a player is drunk and drives the car will change position every xx seconds.
Boxing System:
- Players that have the Boxing job can fight against each other.
- It checks if the ring is not taken at the moment.
- If players win, they will earn Points in their Boxing Skill.
- Players can get several titles the more they fight (Can be adjusted if you like).
- Players can check how many fights they won & lost, and see who is the current champion.
- If a player beats the current champion, there will be a News Message that he's the new champion.
- As soon the champion will fight, the fight will be announced in a News Message and the waiting time for the round to begin will be 60 seconds (normally it's 20 seconds).
Service System:
- Players can call for a Taxi / Bus / Medic / Mechanic to help them out.
- System checks if the Faction that is being called, if anyone is on duty.
- Those Factions that can be called, can choose if they accept the call or not.
- As soon a call get's accepted, the accepter get's a checkpoint to the caller untill he reached that player.
Tie & Tazer System:
- Only Family Members / Leaders can use the Tie and Untie functions.
- You can only Tie someone while both the players are in a car (Just RP the player in, point a gun or something).
- If the player that's being tied is tied for 3 minutes, the rope will get lose and the player is free.
- Only Cops / FBI / National Guard can use the Tazing function.
- If a player get's tazed he will be stunned for x seconds + after effect (bit weird walking).
Taxi & Bus System:
- Check if you are in one of the 2 factions and are in a Taxi or a Bus.
- Busses can only use a static fare, that will be paid immediately when a player enters the bus.
- Bus Driver and the passenger will both get a message they paid, and how much.
- Taxi's can set a fare, that will be paid every xx seconds, since taxi's use a taxi meter in real life too.
- Fare and new fare increasing time will be shown on top of the screen.
- The total fare amount will be paid to the Taxi Driver as soon the passenger steps out.
Hit Contract System:
- Hitman Agency faction can use a portable computer to: See news / Get a contract / Assign a contract to a hitman (Rank needed) / Order a weapon package / Check the ranks of online Hitmen.
- Before a contract can be given to a Hitman, there needs to be searched for a contract (automaticly search).
Weapon Creation System:
- The Arms Dealer job can gather packages, that can later be transformed into Materials.
- With Materials Arms Dealers can create weapons, and sell them to players.
Fishing (An idea of Cops & Robbers):
- Checks if you have a fishing License or not, or you will commit a crime.
- Checks if you have caught to many fishes in to little time, since you can sell the fishes and players will do this all the time to get rich.
- Checks what Level your Fishing Skill is, based on this you can catch better fishes.
- You can see how many fishes you have caught and which.
- You can throw back your last caught fish.
- You can throw all your caught fishes away.
- You can release your last caught fish.
- You can cook several things, like fishes and stuff from the 24/7.
- You can see what you have cooked and how many space you have left.
- You can eat whatever you have cooked.
Ingame Mission Creating System (Dynamic):
- Works only if you are an Admin.
- Admins can easily save and load a new Mission.
- You can create text messages & Game text messages.
- You can save the coordinates where players need to go to.
- You can give a title to your Mission.
- You can give a reward to your Mission if a player succeeds to finish it.
- You can choose if the players will receive checkpoints, or not (If not then they really have to search and it's all based on RP).
- Players can only do a mission once, even if the mission get's reloaded, since the number of the mission get's saved into the players account.
- When a new Mission get's loaded, players can go to the Mission Building and start their Mission.
Premium Account System (Bonus Features for players):
- Your Interest Rate (for each PayDay payment) goes up.
- Your Gas Can (from /get fuel) will be saved into your account.
- You can block Whispers.
- You can turn your Phone on / off.
- You spawn with full health.
- You can quit a job at 1 hour played, instead of 5.
- You are able to get better house cars.
- You will receive your saved weapons on login and after using /tv.
- Every 5 PayDay's you have you'll get an extra Respect Point.
- If you use /buylevel and you have more Respect Points then the level costs, you will get them back to advance youself to the process of the next level.
- On every PayDay, you will get your normal PayCheck, plus half of it as a Bonus.
Perhaps i've forgotten a few things, but you'll see soon enough when you look in the source.
Hope you enjoy the mode as i loved playing untill i got bored of it
Server Map (Contains all map information, business / houses etc..., credits to someone on the Godfather Community)
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Re: [GM] The Godfather 2
1 error cant read from utils!!
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Re: [GM] The Godfather 2
My paytime is not working... It is original paytime from godfather but after paytime when you get rpoint, I get rpoint but after I relog i lost it... I don't know what is problem... It worked on 2.2 samp server but on 2.x it don't work.
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Re: [GM] The Godfather 2
Is it your own GM? or regular GF?
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Re: [GM] The Godfather 2
Have you renamed OnPlayerUpdate?
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Re: [GM] The Godfather 2
Here it is:
public PayDay() { new string[128]; new account,interest; new rent = 0; new playerid; for(new i = 0; i < MAX_PLAYERS; i++) { if(IsPlayerConnected(i)) { if(PlayerInfo[i][pLevel] > 0) { if(MoneyMessage[i]==1) { SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_RED, "You failed to pay your debt and you was sended to jail"); GameTextForPlayer(i, "~r~Busted!", 2000, 1); SetPlayerInterior(playerid, 3); SetPlayerPos(playerid,198.4892,162.0331,1003.0300); PlayerInfo[i][pJailed] = 1; ResetPlayerWeapons(i); WantedPoints[i] = 0; PlayerInfo[i][pJailTime] = 240; format(string, sizeof(string), "You are jailed for %d seconds. - Bail: Unable", PlayerInfo[i][pJailTime]); SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_LIGHTGREEN, string); } new playername2[MAX_PLAYER_NAME]; GetPlayerName(i, playername2, sizeof(playername2)); account = PlayerInfo[i][pAccount]; new key = PlayerInfo[i][pPhousekey]; if(key != 255) { rent = HouseInfo[key][hRent]; if(strcmp(playername2, HouseInfo[key][hOwner], true) == 0) { rent = 0; } else if(rent > GetPlayerMoney(i)) { PlayerInfo[i][pPhousekey] = 255; SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_WHITE, "You have been evicted."); rent = 0; } HouseInfo[key][hTakings] = HouseInfo[key][hTakings]+rent; } new tmpintrate; if (key != 255 && strcmp(playername2, HouseInfo[key][hOwner], true) == 0) { if(PlayerInfo[i][pDonateRank] > 0) { tmpintrate = intrate+4; } else { tmpintrate = intrate+2; }//HouseInfo[key][hLevel] } else { if(PlayerInfo[i][pDonateRank] > 0) { tmpintrate = 3; } else { tmpintrate = 1; } } if(PlayerInfo[i][pPayDay] >= 5) { Tax += TaxValue;//Should work for every player online PlayerInfo[i][pAccount] -= TaxValue; if(PlayerInfo[i][pDonateRank] > 0) { new bonus = PlayerInfo[i][pPayCheck] / 2; PlayerInfo[i][pPayCheck] += bonus; } new checks = PlayerInfo[i][pPayCheck]; new ebill = (PlayerInfo[i][pAccount]/1000)*(PlayerInfo[i][pLevel]); ConsumingMoney[i] = 1; GivePlayerMoney(i, checks); if(PlayerInfo[i][pAccount] > 0) { PlayerInfo[i][pAccount] -= ebill; SBizzInfo[4][sbTill] += ebill; } else { ebill = 0; } interest = (PlayerInfo[i][pAccount]/1000)*(tmpintrate); PlayerInfo[i][pExp]++; PlayerPlayMusic(i); PlayerInfo[i][pAccount] = account+interest; SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_LIGHTGREEN, "------------ PAYTIME ------------"); format(string, sizeof(string), ".: Earned: %d$ - Tax Money: -%d$ :.", checks, TaxValue); SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_WHITE, string); if(PlayerInfo[i][pPhousekey] != 255 || PlayerInfo[i][pPbiskey] != 255) { format(string, sizeof(string), ".: Electricity Bill: -%d$ :.", ebill); SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_GRAD1, string); } format(string, sizeof(string), ".: Bank Balance: %d$ :.", account); SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_WHITE, string); format(string, sizeof(string), ".: Interests: %d$ :.", interest); SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_WHITE, string); SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_LIGHTGREEN, "--------------------------------"); format(string, sizeof(string), ".: New Balance: %d$ :.", PlayerInfo[i][pAccount]); SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_WHITE, string); format(string, sizeof(string), ".: Rent: -%d$ :.", rent); SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_WHITE, string); format(string, sizeof(string), "~w~Pay~p~Time", checks); GameTextForPlayer(i, string, 5000, 1); PlayerPlaySound(i, 1085, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0); rent = 0; PlayerInfo[i][pPayDay] = 0; PlayerInfo[i][pPayCheck] = 0; PlayerInfo[i][pConnectTime] += 1; if(PlayerInfo[i][pDonateRank] > 0) { PlayerInfo[i][pPayDayHad] += 1; if(PlayerInfo[i][pPayDayHad] >= 5) { PlayerInfo[i][pExp]++; PlayerInfo[i][pPayDayHad] = 0; } } } else { SendClientMessage(i, COLOR_RED, "[PAYTIME] You haven't played long enough to obtain a paytime!"); } } } } Checkprop(); return 1; }
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Despite his involvement with space programs and defense, he emerged as an early public critic of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, also aka "Star Wars") during the Ronald Reagan administration. On The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, he called it "the ultimate military lunacy, easily overwhelmed and vulnerable".[4] Bowman founded the Institute for Space and Security Studies, and its publication Space & Security News (1983) (ISSN 1071-2569), and authored two books on the subject of SDI. He is also a critic of an outgrowth of the SDI program, the Bush administration's proposed National Missile Defense.[5]
Bowman is active with Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War as a speaker.[6][7][8] He had also been a member of the Peace Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.[9]
In 1998, Project Censored cited Bowman's article "Our Continuing War Against Iraq," in the May 1998 issue of Space and Security News as one of the few (along with Bill Blum of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Dennis Bernstein) covering what they deemed the fifth most censored story, "U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction Linked to the Deaths of Half a Million Children."
Bowman has also been a frequent candidate for office, including a run for Congress in Florida in 2006 and an attempt at gaining the Reform Party candidacy for president in 2000.
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In the the fourth of our series looking at City players who claimed iconic status during the Manchester derby, we look at the man the Reds perhaps fear the most....
The player…
Sergio Aguero
When news filtered through that Sergio was going to be banned for three games starting with Saturday's Manchester derby, it's fair to assume that United fans were rather pleased.
Any team would breathe a sigh of relief to not have to face the prolific Argentine, but the Reds in particular know how lethal he can be - and more often than not is - especially in the Manchester derby.
It seems Kun loves playing our cross-city rivals as much as any team in the Premier League - and perhaps a bit more.
His scoring record speaks for itself and his absence is a blow to Pep Guardiola.
In the nine games he has faced United, he's scored eight goals - he has twice missed the derby because of injury and this will be the third time in the last five years he has been missing from the Blues' attack.
But fear not... he should be back for the return at the Etihad...
The Moment…
Etihad Stadium, 2 November 2014
City were desperate to end a disappointing run of three games without a win to get the title challenge back on track while United laboured in mid-table.
In an ill-tempered game, Chris Smalling was dismissed on 39 minutes for his second bookable offence and the Blues laid siege to the United goal.
As City pinned back the Reds, it seemed the breakthrough had to come sooner or later - and on 62 minutes, it finally did.
Yaya Toure picked out Gael Clichy's run into the box with a precision pass. The French full-back spotted Aguero's clever run and the Argentinian sent his shot over David De Gea to send the Etihad wild.
It was his 11th goal in 12 games and yet another goal against United. City held on to win 1-0 and move into third in the table while United slipped further off the pace.
The celebration...


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The Solar Photon Random Walk Model simulates the path of photons in radiative transport as they escape from the Sun. Photons do not travel in a straight line, but rather collide with larger particles and get redirected. This simulation models that process using a random walk in polar coordinates. The random walk parameters are adjustable to match different models of the structure of the sun, or the user can input their own values.
The Solar Photon Random Walk Model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the ejs_comp_phys_photon_random_walk.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.
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You know the old line, one version of which was used in "The Blues Brothers." Ellwood asks a waitress, "What kind of music do you usually have here?"
"Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western."
If it's jazz that is usually called the one original American art form, there's no reason not to say the same of country music. Jazz was synthesized out of the New Orleans gumbo where African rhythms met European horns. Country took off from British and Irish murder ballads melding with American stories and tunings in the South.
But country in L.A.? So big and rich, so big and liberal, so lacking in wide open spaces, so impossible to see the stars at night in the glare of the big city lights.
Actually, what one alt-country recording series from the '80s called "A Town South of Bakersfield" has been if not a hotbed of C&W then a reasonable outpost of it. Before the Palomino closed in '95, there was a fine venue for country on Lankershim.
But, as with every popular musical form since the counterculture blew everything apart in the '60s and '70s, there's been the question of what country music really is. And why Americans seemingly have to pledge allegiance to one form of our musical genres or another rather than tuning in to the wonderful polyglot. Partly it's the problem that afflicted pop after the downfall of mainstream AM radio. There was that magical time when Aretha and the Beach Boys and Ritchie Valens all were heard by everyone on KHJ. Now we listen in separate silos. But what happened to country then was political. When the great Merle Haggard sang about how he was proud to be an Okie from Muskogee — by which he meant his real hometown of Bakersfield — during the Vietnam era, it was a dividing line about patriotism and drugs and long hair. Johnny Cash joined Bob Dylan on "Nashville Skyline," but the rupture was real.
Country rock and then alt country were created out of the split. Heartland music for us was the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the New Riders of the Purple Sage. The Grand Ol' Opry seemed cornpone. My DJ cousin Jay in Amarillo took me backstage to meet the Buffalo Springfield. Neil Young in a fringed leather jacket? That was my country star.
A couple of months ago I drove a loaner car while mine was in the shop. The radio was tuned to 105.1 FM, L.A.'s country station. I listened up. "My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you," the fellow twanged. Pretty good line. Checking in every once in a while, I find: 1.) Funny thing is, while many rock songs are entirely without guitar parts today, country is all about the Telecaster solo. 2.) A very common lyrical theme is: Boy from small town moves to the big city; longs for the comforts of home; tells his girl that; when his folks die, they marry and move back to his family's three acres. 3.) In this imaginary world, no one drives a Honda. Everyone drives a truck. 4.) Product placement is common. It's not his pickup — it's his Chevy. He's not telling his girl he's got some beers — he's touting "the 12 of Bud Light" waiting in the back of his truck.
Los Angeles is a small blue island in this big red country. Drive 50 miles north or east of 1st and Spring and the accent, vernacular and shared values are more Ozarks than Hollyood. This is the America that goes to war and hunts and votes tea party and listens to Tim McGraw and Faith Hill singing "Meanwhile Back at Mama's." But there's still hope for common ground. When I bragged in the office how I was just back from Coachella, a young Latina reporter I would have taken for an EDM fan said she was headed the next weekend for Stagecoach, country's big desert festival. Hope she got to hear Jason Aldean sing his "Amarillo Sky."
Larry Wilson is a member of the Los Angeles News Group editorial board. email@example.com.


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Jennifer Aniston gave her former "Friends" co-star and longtime friend Courteney Cox a necklace when her daughter, Coco, was born, and the actress is still keeping it close to her heart almost seven years later.
Access Hollywood's Billy Bush caught up with the "Cougar Town" star this weekend at the OmniPeace by Jordan Klein charity event on Friday. The actress, who serves as an ambassador for humanitarian fashion brand, is working with OmniPeace founder Mary Fanaro to end poverty in Africa.
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"Now tell me Courteney, you're wearing two things on you right now that you care about a lot, OmniPeace is one but I love your little chain Coco," Billy said.
"Thank you, [I] got this when she was born from Jennifer," she told Billy.
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"Jennifer Aniston gave you that? How cute," Billy said.
"Not Jennifer Aniston, my friend, um, Jennifer, um… no, I'm just kidding," the actress joked.
"But do you wear it everyday? " Billy inquired.
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"You know what? Recently I've been wearing it every single day," the 46-year-old actress, who recently separated from husband David Arquette, told Billy. "I re-found it again, because obviously, she's 6-and-a-half years old… I wear it everyday, 'cause, you know, she's my girl."
In addition to her own little one, Courteney is opening her heart to other children through her work with the fashion brand. OmniPeace is about to build its fourth school in Africa in just three years with the proceeds from their T-shirt and hoodie sales at Kitson stores in Southern California.
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VIDEO DOWNLOAD - Bret Hart Shoot Interview Volume 2
A candid and personal shoot interview with Bret "The Hitman" Hart. An emotional interview straight from the Hart!
- Bret talks about his experience in WCW.
- What does Bret think of the career ending injury he suffered at the hands of Bill Goldberg?
- What is his opinion of Goldberg now?
- The Hitman explains why he wasnt given a fair shake to be a main event star in WCW.
- He tells what Eric Bischoff wanted to do with his character and why he wouldnt do it.
- He then reveals everything about how Hulk Hogan and Bischoff worked together to maintain power in WCW.
- What did he think of the legendary Owen Hart tribute match he had against Chris Benoit in Kansas City?
- Youll hear everything about Brets WCW career right through the final stuff he did with Lance Storm.
- What is his current status and what are his injuries?
- Youll be shocked when he recounts his meeting with Vince McMahon at Owens funeral and what security measures McMahon took.
- Bret tells all the circumstances that broke up the Hart family.
- He then talks about his nephew Teddy Hart and theMatrats promotion.
- There is no way you wont be saddened by how Bret envisioned his future with Owen.
This is as moving and dramatic as any interview youll ever witness. Bret goes into great detail on all these topics. You cant help but be affected by how the last two years have changed Brets life and he tells you all about it here.You will feel like Bret Harts closest confidant after this one..
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Josh Hamilton drove in four runs and the Rangers offense bailed out Ryan Dempster in his Texas debut in a 15-9 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night.
The Rangers broke an 8-8 tie after six innings when they scored four runs in the seventh, including Hamilton's two-run double, and added three in the eighth.
Dempster allowed eight runs and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings. The Rangers acquired Dempster from the Cubs minutes before Tuesday's non-waiver trade deadline.
Roy Oswalt (4-2) threw two scoreless innings in relief for the win.
C.J. Wilson gave up eight runs and 10 hits in 5 1/3 innings. David Carpenter (1-2) took the loss for the Angels.
Texas leads Los Angeles by five games in the AL West.
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I've been very lucky recently and I have received three wonderful Easter Eggs to review. The eggs, and the lucky tasters, had been waiting patiently for some time to get to work on this project. I decided the best thing was to host an Easter Egg Tasting Event at home. We would like to thank the manufacturers of the Easter Eggs for allowing us to carry out this difficult task!!
I did some research on chocolate and we all had a checklist. Not wishing to eat one Easter Egg after another, this tasting took place over two days.
All of the Easter Eggs are quite beautiful in their own unique way and have been reviewed on their merits.
Hotel Chocolat
Hotel Chocolat Exuberantly Fruity Egg was gratefully received. The packaging was so well thought out that you just knew the egg was safe, which was a relief, especially as I had received such an amazing egg to review.
The gift packaging was quite plain, but the attached label with a photograph, told quite another story about the contents within.
The egg came silver foil wrapped in two parts and we all waited in anticipation for the opening ceremony. Then gasps of wow!! The aroma!! The colours!! Oh my goodness!! The list goes on and on.
We all had the tasting list, but it just had to go, we were all hopelessly seduced by the excitement of the egg!!
One of the first things you notice is the thickness of the 40% milk chocolate shell. The fruit filled shell is crisp when you break into it with small pieces of raspberry. Within the egg are raspberry and peach, apricot, blackcurrant, strawberry, redcurrant and mango truffles, these are inside crisp chocolate shells that have been rolled in real fruit powder. These eggs stimulate the senses - sight, taste, smell, different textures, even the sound of the chocolate snapping.
We all thought this was an Easter Egg for lovers to share, or, if you have just been chucked by your boyfriend, you will feel much better after devouring one of these.
If you don't live within easy reach of a Hotel Chocolat shop, the postage costs are very reasonable.
Hotel Chocolat has everything right with this egg, from the packaging to the eating experience and well done to them.
Green & Black's
I received Green & Black's Organic Dark 70% Chocolate Egg with Smooth Praline Mini Eggs.
The packaging for posting and the gift box is constructed from 100% recycled board. The gift box was well packed in bubble wrap.
The dark brown gift box depicts Springs fresh growth of wild flowers with a scattering of birds, dragonflies, bumblebees and a rabbit, all in different shades of brown and gold.
The egg had a bittersweet flavour and melts beautifully in the mouth with a smooth texture. A long lingering aftertaste is experienced with this chocolate. The chocolate also has a very clean snap.
The small eggs were filled with smooth praline, and the dark chocolate and praline were perfect partners.
This Easter Egg will be appreciated by dark chocolate lovers who know how to make chocolate last a few days. Certainly not to be eaten all in one sitting!!
Green & Black's Easter Eggs have two entries in the Top Ten Best Selling Easter Eggs list this weekend, which has been compiled by Tesco's, and I really think this says it all.
Bettys by Post
Bettys sent me their Milk Chocolate Foiled Egg to review and this was also packaged superbly and received safely.
The egg was enclosed in pleated gold foil and stood on a small gold coloured stand, this was then wrapped in clear cellophane and tied with a small Betty's ribbon. The egg is made using Swiss chocolate with 38% cocoa solids. The egg was in one piece and the inside was hollow.
The chocolate was smooth in both texture and flavour and was quite mild.
Although on our notes it said to do the snap test on a bar of chocolate, we still proceeded, and the chocolate had a good snap.
If you like to eat an egg greedily at one sitting, then it is very easy to do so with this particular chocolate.
We felt Aunts and Grandmothers would appreciate this egg, and particularly if they had been to Bettys Teashops and experienced the ambience surrounding this very British experience.


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Tween Reads
December 2018
Recent Releases
The House With Chicken Legs
Sophie Anderson
What it's about:
At age 12, Marinka is already training to take over her grandmother's role as a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead through the gates to the afterlife. But Marinka longs for more: a permanent home (not just a traveling, chicken-legged house) and a real, living friend.
Try this next:
For another creepy yet touching spin on Russian folk tales, try
Baba Yaga's Assistant
by Marika McCoola.
Small Spaces
Katherine Arden
Ollie, a bookish sixth-grader who realizes that the scary antique book she's been reading is actually local history -- and that her entire class might be in danger unless Ollie and her new friends can save them.
scarecrows, shapeshifters, a smiling specter, and a frightening journey through a fog-shrouded forest.
Series alert:
Set during autumn in Vermont, this spooky chiller is the 1st in a seasonal 4-book series.
Charlie Hernández and the League of Shadows
Ryan Calejo
What it's about:
First, Charlie Hernández's house burns down and his parents vanish. Then he grows feathers and horns (awkward!). Now, the legends he learned from his beloved abuela -- La Llorona, El Sombrerón, Justo Juez -- are coming to life.
Read it for:
exciting action, a likable hero, and a winning blend of Hispanic and Latin American myths.
You might also like:
J.C. Cervantes'
The Storm Runner
, which offers a modern take on Maya mythology.
Everlasting Nora
Marie Miranda Cruz
Welcome to:
Manila North Cemetery, home to 12-year-old Nora and her mom.
What happens:
After losing her father and dropping out of school to work, Nora's no stranger to tough times. But when her mom disappears, Nora faces her toughest challenge yet: trusting in help from her neighbors.
Did you know?
The cemetery shantytown in this heartbreaking but hopeful story is a real place in the Philippines.
You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!
Alex Gino
Jilly, who's 12 years old, white, and obsessed with fantasy books; her friend and fellow fan Derek, who's black and Deaf; and her baby sister Emma, who's hearing impaired.
What happens:
While trying to stick up for the people share cares about, confident Jilly begins to realize how much she doesn't know.
Why you might like it:
Similar to the way in which
(author Alex Gino's first book) encourages you to be yourself, Jilly's story will inspire you to learn more about others.
I'm Ok
Patti Kim
Ok Lee, a sixth-grade loner who tries to help his struggling family through get-rich-quick schemes.
What happens:
After his hair-braiding business causes a stir, Ok decides to roller-skate his way to the school talent contest's cash prize. Meanwhile, he worries that a deacon from their church is getting too close to his widowed mom.
About the author:
Korean American author Patti Kim brings honesty, humor, and real-life experience to Ok's story.
It Wasn't Me
Dana Alison Levy
What it's about:
Who vandalized Theo's photos in the school gallery? All five suspects claim innocence, so their teacher puts them -- and Theo -- in a "justice circle" where they can get to know each other...and eventually uncover the truth.
For fans of:
author Dana Alison Levy's Family Fletcher series (Jax Fletcher is one of the suspects), as well as other realistic reads that break down middle-school stereotypes.
Bluecrowne: A Greenglass House Story
Kate Milford
What it's about:
After spending her childhood at sea, captain's daughter Lucy Bluecrowne dreads the boredom of living ashore. But she's not bored for long: shortly after they move to Nagspeake, her pyrotechnically talented half-brother Liao is kidnapped by a mysterious time traveler.
Series alert:
Though it stands alone as a thrilling mashup of history, fantasy, and science fiction, this prequel to
The Left-Handed Fate
also includes clever connections to the author's Greenglass House and Boneshaker series.
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America, meet your final 30.
Jurgen Klinsmann named his preliminary roster on Monday for next month's World Cup in Brazil. And although it includes the obvious names – veterans Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Tim Howard and Landon Donovan – there was one notable name left off: Eddie Johnson.
The 2006 World Cup veteran had one of his best years as a US national teamer in 2013, scoring five goals in 17 appearances and playing a crucial role in the Americans topping the CONCACAF Hexagonal. But Johnson has yet to log a goal in 2014 for D.C. United through eight matches and was left off the squad.
Eighteen-year-old Bayern Munich reserve attacker Julian Green, however, did make the cut, as did a handful of supposed bubble players: defenders John Brooks, Timmy Chandler and DeAndre Yedlin; midfielders Maurice Edu, Brad Davis, Joe Corona and Mix Diskerud; and forwards Terrence Boyd and Chris Wondolowski.
The 30 players will begin reporting to pre-World Cup camp on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., on Wednesday. Klinsmann must whittle the 30-man roster down to 23 and submit his official World Cup roster to FIFA by June 2.
"We had some difficult decisions to make, and we are very excited about the 30 players coming into camp," Klinsmann said in a statement. "There is competition in every position, and these next couple of weeks will allow us to make the final determinations on the best 23-man unit to represent the United States in the World Cup."
Camp runs until May 25 and will conclude with a friendly against Azerbaijan at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on May 27 (10 pm ET, ESPN2/UniMas).
The team then heads east to face Turkey at Red Bull Arena on June 1 (2 pm ET, ESPN2/UniMas) and Nigeria at Everbank Field in Jacksonville, Fla., on June 7 (6 pm ET, ESPN2/UniMas) before flying to Brazil. They'll then play a closed-door scrimmage against fellow World Cup participants Belgium on June 12 in São Paulo, where the USMNT will be based during the tournament.
The Americans open their World Cup against Ghana in Natal on June 16.
Here is the full 30-man roster:
GOALKEEPERS (3): Brad Guzan (Aston Villa/England), Tim Howard (Everton/England), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
DEFENDERS (11): DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla/Mexico), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), John Brooks (Hertha Berlin/Germany), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City/England), Timmy Chandler (Nürnberg/Germany), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders FC), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), Clarence Goodson (San Jose Earthquakes), Fabian Johnson (Hoffenheim/Germany), Michael Parkhurst (Columbus Crew), DeAndre Yedlin (Seattle Sounders)
MIDFIELDERS (10): Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes/France), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Joe Corona (Club Tijuana/Mexico), Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg/Norway), Maurice Edu (Philadelphia Union), Julian Green (Bayern Munich/Germany), Jermaine Jones (Besiktas/Turkey), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)
FORWARDS (6): Jozy Altidore (Sunderland/England), Terrence Boyd (Rapid Vienna/Austria), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar/Netherlands), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)


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Foreign news is disappearing from
many of Americas newspapers. A legendary
war correspondent visited newsrooms across the country and found out why: It has been completely
overwhelmed by local news.
Peter Arnett
Peter Arnett is a former foreign correspondent for CNN and the Associated Press.
City streets radiate from Monument Circle in Indianapolis like the spokes in the wheel of an old race car. Designed as the hub of an imposing series of veterans memorials and plazas, the circle was downtown's main landmark until the Circle Centre shopping and entertainment complex opened in 1995. With its flashy eight-story glass rotunda and nearby museums, the center revivified downtown and put the lie to the old slur that the only thing that ever happened here was the Indy 500.
But for longtime residents, Monument Circle remains the reference point for the heart of the city, and for none more so than the 185 reporters and editors who work for the morning Indianapolis Star and the evening Indianapolis News, whose parent, Central Newspapers Inc., is the 17th-largest newspaper company in the United States.
That their preference is for news close to the circle was evident in the May 12 edition of the News I bought after arriving at Indianapolis International Airport. There were front-page stories on a tobacco industry suit, a business merger and, of course, the upcoming Indianapolis 500--but no mention of India's explosion of a hydrogen bomb the previous day. In fact, in the 30 pages of that day's News, I found only a few international briefs. Nine paragraphs, total.
Indianapolis was one of more than a half-dozen stops I was making to determine why most American newspapers, like the News and the Star, have come to focus so overwhelmingly on news from home. I had my reasons for picking Indianapolis, as I did with a couple of Manhattans (New York and Kansas). The other cities, among them Kalamazoo and Atlanta, I chose more serendipitously--no scientific sampling, but enough exposure to America's newsrooms to obtain at least anecdotal explanation as to why so many papers have given up on the world.
What drew me to Indiana's capital was the memory of a time--the late 1960s--when international news dominated the agenda of America's media. The story was Vietnam. The Indianapolis papers were run by the cantankerous Eugene C. Pulliam, the most powerful publisher in two states, Arizona and Indiana. Despite initial reservations about U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, Pulliam had switched his full support to President Lyndon Johnson. The Pulliam papers in Indianapolis and Phoenix carried pro-war editorials and the old man lambasted anti-war protesters at any forum he could.
Pulliam also served on the board of the Associated Press, a prestigious seat because the wire service was such a dominant force in the news business. I happened to meet him in early 1966 at AP's New York headquarters at 50 Rockefeller Plaza. An AP correspondent, I had just returned from Vietnam to receive that year's Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Wes Gallagher, the legendary AP chief who could out-growl any newspaper titan, invited me to lunch. Pulliam would be a guest.
"He's louder in his support of the war than LBJ is," Gallagher warned me, then smiled. "Don't worry, I'll protect you."
But during the meal Gene Pulliam asked nothing but sensible questions about my experiences covering the war. As we dined in Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, the 77-year-old Pulliam reminisced of his travels to Europe and the Middle East in the '50s. His grasp of developments overseas was confident and informed. Later I treasured any stories of mine that ended up on the front page of a Pulliam paper.
So now, 30 years later, I was traveling to Indianapolis. Pulliam's son, "Young Gene" Pulliam, in his 80s and his health declining, still ran the papers. I was armed with a rough survey I'd taken of the Star's use of international news the previous November. The big story had been Saddam Hussein's defiance of the United Nations weapons inspection teams. American members had been expelled precipitously from Iraq. The U.S. military buildup seemed to presage another round in the Persian Gulf War, with American lives at risk once more.
Yet the Star had little coverage beyond the obvious headlines. Only a tiny percentage of the newshole was international, even though this was once world-traveler Gene Pulliam's proud flagship, the main provider of news to central Indiana. What had happened?
I'll put it simply: International news coverage in most of America's mainstream papers has almost reached the vanishing point. Today, a foreign story that doesn't involve bombs, natural disasters or financial calamity has little chance of entering the American consciousness. This at a time when the United States has become the world's lone superpower and "news" has so many venues--papers, magazines, broadcast and cable TV, radio, newsletters, the Internet--that it seems inescapable. So how is it that Americans have never been less informed about what's going on in the rest of the world? Because we, the media, have stopped telling them.
Sadly, that includes the vast majority of our newspapers. "The top 50 papers in the country do a good enough job--the other 1,550 dailies don't do anything," says Edward Seaton, owner-editor of the little Manhattan Mercury (circulation 13,000) in heartland Kansas. The worldly Seaton is the current president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and is so concerned about the disappearance of foreign news that he has made reversing the trend his top priority at ASNE. "For the average citizen of the United States," he says, "there is no international news available anywhere unless there is a major crisis."
Newspapers have been among the last holdouts. A few of the big boys--the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal--have stubbornly maintained substantial foreign reporting staffs and produce sterling reports. Many major metros still do a serviceable, if spotty, job. Coverage of global finance and such hot-button regional issues as immigration and trade are on the upswing. But that said, the rest of the newspaper industry has capitulated to the ominous trend that began in the wake of Vietnam and accelerated with the end of the Cold War.
Broadcast television has essentially left the field. (Ironically, the rise of my own employer, Cable News Network, exacerbated this situation.) Magazines followed suit; foreign covers, we've been told, are the newsstand kiss of death.
At newspapers, when the money crunches of the early '90s forced editors to pare budgets and newsholes, foreign reports were a major casualty. With the fall of communism, Washington bureaus for such chains as Cox, Gannett, Hearst and Scripps Howard eliminated or greatly pared their coverage of the State Department. Individual papers that once rightly bragged on their own foreign affairs coverage--Cleveland's Plain Dealer, the Detroit News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, to name a few--virtually gave it up. As paper after paper wrestled with priorities, what resources there were stayed home. Local ruled.
Consider Indianapolis. In the 30 days of November 1997, by simple yardstick measurement, foreign news accounted for just under 3,900 column inches. That equals one full page of news a day. Not great for those big Thanksgiving-season issues; not bad, either. But if you consider the same month in 1977, the Star totaled 5,100 inches (adjusted for today's wider measure) of international report. So there was a 23 percent drop over two decades.
Of course, that's only a snapshot and should be taken as such. Frankly, there's precious little data on this subject. But in the late '80s, in one of the few consequential attempts to get a handle on the trend, a California State University professor of journalism, Michael Emery, measured the space that 10 major American papers devoted to foreign news. Emery found that it constituted only 2.6 percent of non-advertising space. That figure, Emery discovered, was down precipitously from similar (albeit less rigorous) surveys during the early '70s. And the papers he examined were standard-bearers--like the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Post- Dispatch. One can only wonder how minuscule the percentages would be at the smaller papers most Americans read.
Beyond quantity, the trend also involves an overall reduction in the prominence of foreign news. Even at metro papers that still offer a reasonable diet of stories from abroad, a subscriber can go for days at a time without seeing one crack the front page. And the sheer number of foreign stories is clearly down. If you want to find out what actually happened the day before in a far-off place, the news is apt to be in those now-ubiquitous "World Roundups." On many days, in the smaller papers, those roundups are all you get.
My travels turned up no indications that this decline will be reversed. We would do well to fear the consequences of such a benighted state of affairs. In a new introduction to his 1996 book, "International News and Foreign Correspondents," scholar and media critic Stephen Hess points out that "the United States is increasingly one nation and two media societies. Particularly as this gap relates to knowledge of the rest of the world, Americans who have the time, interest and money will be awash in information, while those with limited resources, who probably rely on an evening network television program and a local paper for news, will not get the information that reflects the importance of the world for their lives."
So many editors embrace the canard that readers don't want foreign news. Yet surveys just don't bear this out. In a 1996 poll, for instance, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press asked readers what kinds of news stories they regularly follow. Fifteen percent said international affairs--just one point below Washington politics, and slightly ahead of consumer news (14 percent) and the celebrity stuff (13 percent) that gets cranked out these days by the boatload. American newspaper readers instinctively realize that with today's interconnectedness, what happens halfway around the world directly affects them. A one-day, 500-point swan dive on Wall Street is laid to the collapsing Asian and Russian economies. Recessions abroad threaten American jobs. Terrorists blow up U.S. embassies. We launch cruise missiles in response. Iraq continues to flout U.N. resolutions and the American will. India and Pakistan engage in nuclear one-upmanship. There's the Mideast. Korea. Kosovo.
The world presses in on us, even in Indianapolis.
My taxi driver, Earl Gibson, told me the Indianapolis News was his paper. He talked enthusiastically about its coverage of the Indiana Pacers basketball team. I asked if he cared for international news. "Hell," he responded with a laugh, "all those years..they were talking about the SALT talks with the Russians? I thought they were talking about salt like in shakers, not nuclear bombs!" Earl dropped me off at the turn-of-the-century brick building at the corner of Pennsylvania and New York that houses the Star and the News. He pointed to the large black-checkered flags tied to power poles and to the rows of benches temporarily erected along sidewalks: "We got an Indy 500 parade comin' up!"
An old AP pal, Chip Maury, now director of photography for the two Indianapolis papers, met me upstairs in the second-floor newsroom. He started right in: "Proximity, proximity, proximity--that's what it's all about, that's what they're saying at the J-schools." Maury is gray-bearded, 59, and near retirement. By "proximity," he meant the ascendancy of local news. At the 4 o'clock meeting to determine page one of the next day's paper, I saw exactly what he meant.
Bob di Nicola, the acting wire editor, dealt his budgets round the table. He had culled several pages of national and international story suggestions from hours of scanning wires from the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Knight Ridder-Tribune service and others, a blue-ribbon news motherlode that costs the Indianapolis papers nearly a million dollars a year.
Di Nicola, a 58-year-old news veteran, was pinch-hitting for Jennifer Morlan, an assistant news editor. His picks for page one: President Clinton on a stepped-up campaign against organized crime; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Israel squabbling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and a follow-up story to India's nuclear blast.
Executive Editor Frank Caperton took his seat at the head of the table. "Where's local?" someone asked impatiently. Moments later "local" arrived in the person of Thomas Leyden, the brassy master of the city desk's 65 editors and reporters. He bustled to his chair and shoved around his lists. A police reporter in Chicago before joining the Star, Leyden has been a fixture here for 18 years. The meeting began.
Editors talked mostly about local stories. An Indiana man with cancer was arrested after admitting on television that he grew marijuana as medicine. A murder exposed the dark side of a high school romance. The governor threatened to sue his auditor. Each of these made it to page one, along with the Clinton press conference on crime. After some debate that evening, an L.A. Times analysis on India's nuclear tests cracked the front. The U.S. demand that Israel give up an additional 13 percent of the West Bank went inside.
Leyden seemed to dominate the meeting, and he did nothing to alter that impression when we talked by telephone a few weeks later.
"Hey, in terms of play in the most precious part of the paper--the A section--it's the survival of the fittest," Leyden told me, with an almost gleeful laugh. "I am a partisan of local news. I want the local story to be played. I fight with everyone if I have to."
Until the early '80s, the Star set aside 10 or more A-section columns--nearly two open pages--for national and international news. But over the past decade, local news has gradually consumed more and more of that space and the front page as well. "A great day for me is an all-local front page," Leyden proclaimed, doubtless speaking for city editors everywhere. Indeed, a few days earlier severe tornadoes had strafed Indiana and blown all other news off page one.
The tornado stories belonged there, without doubt. But the point is, in Indianapolis "there is a temptation to be local to a fault," conceded Ted Daniels, managing editor for news. International stories have to meet a higher threshold just to get into the paper, much less be awarded prominence. Fifteen years ago Daniels himself was wire editor. At the end of the day, he said, he felt fully informed but was frustrated at being able to pass along to readers only 1 or 2 percent of what he'd read. Important regional papers like the Star and News--combined circulation 275,000--ought to avoid the temptation to go all-local, Daniels said.
I also followed up with Jennifer Morlan. It's her job to stay on top of both foreign and domestic news. She told me about her first news meeting. It was late July 1990. The wires were reporting ominous troop movements in southern Iraq. Neighboring Arab countries were concerned. Morlan pushed the story at the page one meeting. But perhaps her newness at the job or her youth--she was 23--went against her. "Someone muttered, 'Sounds like a helluva long way from the Circle,' " she recalled. The story didn't make page one. It didn't even make the paper. The next day Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
Morlan had better luck a year later. As political instability roiled the Soviet Union, she argued vociferously to move the story onto the front page. This time she had a formidable ally. Myrta Pulliam, the granddaughter of old man Pulliam and the paper's director of electronic media, had just returned from the Soviet Union. She said Morlan was right. The day after the story hit page one in the Star, there was an attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. "I live for moments like that," Morlan said.
Most days, though, she must bow to the inevitable. "If there are three great international stories and three great local stories and I'm page one editor that day," she said, "I'll pick the local stories. That's the way it is here... Sometimes you want to share wonderful stories and events with readers, but you cannot."
Executive Editor Caperton, who came to the Star 15 years ago, was bluntly to the point. "We print the best stories of the day, and that's it," he told me. "No favorites, no biases. I have to worry about readers enjoying our paper enough to renew their subscriptions. You ask about international news? We just cannot shove things with interesting datelines in the paper and serve it like breakfast cereal. We are in more than 55 percent of Indianapolis homes. We want to stay there."
But I reminded him: When Gene Pulliam ran the papers with an iron hand, one of his objectives was to "let everyone's view be known." Pulliam's heightened awareness of the uniqueness of America's free press caused him to change the motto of his papers to read "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," words that remain on the masthead today.
Caperton shot back: "At that time, no matter how bad the paper, 90 percent of the population would read it--read it as entertainment. You were assured readership then. Today, people are much more discriminating. We must be more discriminating." Discriminating, as in more local news. Of the newspapers in all the communities I visited, the Indianapolis Star ran the least international news.
My journey made one thing obvious: The very culture of today's newsroom puts wire editors at a disadvantage. They work in solitude, watching the news roll across their screens. Meanwhile, the army of local reporters and editors fills the newsroom with buzz. These days, there aren't even bells from the old clattering teletypes--the once-familiar signal that something happened in the world.
Of course, there are reporters and editors in Indianapolis who remember--as I do--those bells, the wire-room staffers running in with takes, straight to the copy desk. But that's what it is now, memory. The victors write the history..and the local editor, Tom Leyden, made it a short history:
"That was another era--long gone."
I watched international news fade from America's newspapers in the 1970s. International news was my life's work, so I worried as my stories for the AP appeared in fewer and fewer papers. I was stunned by the editorial indifference. I had lived through the Vietnam War, the last great era of the wire services. AP's Saigon staff battled fiercely with United Press International, and a two-minute beat on a big story was still worthy of celebration, and headlines, from Maine to Montana.
But after the war ended, international news fell dramatically out of favor with editors. They were armed with surveys that suggested readers wanted more local news and service-oriented features (though not necessarily in place of world and national news), and they were scarcely immune to the country's inclination to turn inward after the decade-long nightmare of Vietnam. There was less room for crisis stories, much less longer series with exotic datelines.
AP foreign veteran Mort Rosenblum, now senior international correspondent, was so concerned that in 1981 he wrote "Coups & Earthquakes," the first book to identify the diminishing interest of news executives in international coverage. Rosenblum quoted Harris and Yankelovich surveys showing that nearly half or even more readers were interested in international news. Yet a Harris poll revealed that news executives believed only 5 percent of readers cared. "Many of them allowed themselves to be guided by their own instincts--and prejudices--than by the polls," Rosenblum concluded.
Which may explain why there has never been a full-scale debate over this peculiar idea that there's room to publish an adequate local report, or room to publish an adequate foreign report, but not both. To me, it's a case of journalists making an ideological issue out of what is, in fact, a cost issue--and not a very big cost issue. Building in one additional page a day to beef up a paper's existing international coverage would cost a fraction of 1 percent of its operating expenses, yet would do much to ensure a foreign report that at least touches all the bases. Most newspapers of any size guarantee a certain amount of space for, say, the sports report, but except for the New York Times and maybe a handful of other top papers, how many set aside minimums for international news?
At the AP, whose showcase foreign report had won a fistful of Pulitzers over the years, editors struggled to cope with the growing apathy. The wire service had always hewn closely to the inclinations of member newspapers, so it responded to suggestions that foreign news be better related to the audience, that detail be traded sometimes for explanation, that "people reporting" become an important element in explicating complex international crises.
I did my own lobbying with America's editors at the annual AP Managing Editors conferences and on assignment around the country. One editor assured me, "Peter, when your byline's on a story on the wire, I can tell you our editors are eager to read it. Whether they use it in the paper is another matter." What came through to me in these conversations was that the editors believed my stories had already been told--on network TV. Walter Cronkite's avuncular "and that's the way it is" seemed to bring down the curtain on that day's news. For many newspapers, it meant curtains for foreign news. We'd been scooped.
The technological advances of TV news coverage in the '70s were a wonder to behold but a horror for print hacks like me. I remember scribbling in my notebook at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines early in 1973 as American POWs returned home from Hanoi. They came off the planes into the lenses of cameras beaming their emotional reunions around the world. Bernie Kalb and Liz Trotta had already told the story to network audiences before I could even get to my typewriter to bang out a bulletin.
The cost of those live broadcasts was enormous, but the networks operated their news divisions under relatively altruistic management. Bernard Kalb's brother Marvin, another CBS News star of those years, recalls meeting with network founder William Paley, who encouraged his staff to get the POW story on the air at any cost. "I have the Jack Benny Show to pay for it," Paley told him.
I, too, marveled at the immediacy of TV news, the powerful synergy of picture, sound and voice. But all the while I knew: Print reporters were dispensing far more substantial information. Cronkite himself, a former wire service man, had no illusions about this. At the height of his considerable fame, Cronkite encouraged viewers to turn to their newspapers each morning to get the stories behind the networks' 30-minute nightly summaries. But as more and more people told pollsters they relied primarily on TV for national and international news, mainstream newspapers opted increasingly for what networks could not cover--local news and sports. The hometown paper could get an outright clamp on local coverage. Meanwhile, I got tired of wheedling my own AP stories into the nation's newspapers. I couldn't beat the enemy, so I joined it. In 1981 I signed up with Ted Turner's infant Cable News Network.
Doom-criers predicted that an all-news channel could never be profitable. CNN quickly proved them wrong. It provided viewers with an exhilarating immediacy and rode the cable boom. Then, unexpectedly, the major networks began to stumble. In the mid-'80s, corporate owners sliced budgets and trimmed staffs. Foreign news coverage plummeted. A 1987 New Yorker cartoon noted the retreat: "Owing to cutbacks in our news department, here is Rod Ingram to guess at what happened today in a number of places around the globe." The decline was detailed poignantly in the 1991 autobiography of former NBC News President Reuven Frank, "Out of Thin Air." He wrote, "Like all American companies and later than most, broadcasting had moved from supplying customers to maximizing stock prices and their managers' bonuses... The old role, our way, had served a long time. Never had Americans known so much about the world in those years. It would be enough to be remembered by."
In the heyday of Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Frank Reynolds, at least 40 percent of television news was international. These days the figure is at best 12 percent and dropping to as low as 7 percent. Americans who'd developed the habit of getting at least a fix on international affairs from network news were now getting virtually nothing. That CNN had introduced a new era in dramatic, real-time TV news coverage was salutary but beside the point; the audience was too small.
In the print world, a harbinger of the decline of foreign news was the meltdown of UPI in the '80s. From a peak of 200 bureaus in the United States and around the world, with more than 1,200 employees and several thousand clients, UPI tottered into bankruptcy twice after Scripps Howard unloaded it in 1982. AP, a cooperative owned by America's newspapers, had effectively knocked UPI out of business. After Vietnam and with the emergence of Watergate, the energy crisis and other domestic concerns, the industry wanted less international news--and fewer papers could afford to subscribe to both comprehensive services. Today UPI is owned by Middle East Broadcasting, a Saudi company, and is down to a dozen bureaus in the United States and abroad. Said one former staffer, "UPI's only real assets are its name--and Helen Thomas," referring to the legendary doyenne of the White House press corps.
Ironically, the demise of UPI encouraged the supplemental wire services, such as Knight Ridder-Tribune, Cox and the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post syndicate, to fill the breach. There was renewed commitment on the part of some major papers, in the early and mid-'80s, to an overseas presence. For instance, Knight Ridder, starting from scratch in 1979, had 18 foreign correspondents by 1986. Its news service went from serving mainly its own papers in the early '70s to upwards of 350 clients in recent years. Other premiere and emerging papers, such as Newsday, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor and the Dallas Morning News, moved to keep pace.
But the supplemental services were not immune to the recession of the early '90s and the waning appetite for foreign news. Knight Ridder's foreign correspondents have always belonged to its major subsidiary papers, but in the past year the company began consolidating the foreign operation in Washington. More than a few editors--inside and outside the company--fear that Knight Ridder will now essentially duplicate AP's work and deprive the chain's metros of the chance to tailor a foreign report to their own audiences. But the company said the centralization came about in part from frustration: Knight Ridder's own papers were using too little of their foreign report.
Media specialist Hess, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, made the same point in his book: Foreign coverage is there, but not the commitment to publish it. "The newspaper industry almost requires us to move to certain large cities if we wish to be well-informed about the state of the world," he wrote. To prove his argument, he examined the 2,000 news stories used in 20 mainstream papers (ranging in size from the Arizona Republic to the Grand Rapids Press) that appeared on one day--September 28, 1994, a date chosen because no major global events occurred to skew things. Hess found the papers used an average of only 4.5 international stories a day, other than briefs. He also found that the AP still set the agenda for international news in the United States, and that in addition to its trademark breaking news, it produced interesting enterprise pieces. "But few get published," Hess asserted, "and what is even more troubling is my finding of how few first-rate overview articles coming from the supplemental services..are chosen by newspaper wire editors."
Hess was right. There are still talented reporters out there producing terrific stories. They're just not getting used. As part of this examination of foreign coverage, the Project on the State of the American Newspaper canvassed papers around the country to find out how many staffers they have working full-time (or on exclusive contract) in foreign postings. Not including the Wall Street Journal, whose overseas reporters focus predominantly on financial matters, our count is 186--not a lot, considering there are more than 1,500 daily newspapers.
If you include the Journal, the total is a more respectable 286. In fact, the overall number of newspaper reporters abroad may actually be up in recent years, a development almost certainly attributable to the exploding interest in business and finance. Today thousands of business journalists (and quasi-journalists) around the world are doing largely specialized work for specialized consumers who can and will pay for the information. Not much of this work, however, trickles down to everyday consumers.
That is the discouraging reality the AP must face. It puts out a superb international news report, paid for by all of America's newspapers, that's hardly being touched.


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Thousands of Venezuelans are expected to line the streets Wednesday morning as Hugo Chavez's remains are taken from the military hospital where he died to the Fuerte Tiuna Military Academy in Caracas. The country has declared seven days of mourning, closed schools for the rest of the week and deployed armed forces to "guarantee peace."
The death of the longtime charismatic but controversial leader Tuesday leaves many unanswered questions that Venezuela and the world must now grapple with.
Nicolás Maduro, center makes the announcement of Hugo Chavez' death. He will take over as president until an election is held
Who is expected to succeed Chavez?
In the short term, former Vice President Nicolás Maduro will take over as president of Venezuela until an election is held. He is Chávez's hand-picked successor and delivered the news to the country of the longtime leader's death.
Maduro, 50, has long been a high-profile face in Chavez's administration. He rose from a career as a bus driver in Caracas to Chavez's inner circle.
What is Maduro's reputation?
Chavez minced no words in his support of Maduro.
"I ask this of you from my heart," Chavez told a crowd in December about Maduro. "He is one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I cannot."
But other opinions are mixed.
Maduro has been Venezuela's vice president and foreign minister and has been the recent author of some the country's most radical policies, said Javier Corrales, a professor of political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
"But he also has been behind some of the most pragmatic and conciliatory decisions, including the turnaround in relations with Colombia," Corrales said.
When will elections take place?
An election will be called within 30 days, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said Tuesday.
What power, if any, does the opposition have?
Though Chavez has held a tight grip on his presidency for 14 years, there is an opposition movement in Venezuela.
A coalition between former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski and a group called the Democratic Unity Roundtable has made the country's opposition the strongest it has ever been, some analysts say. But, says Carl Meacham of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the opposition may still not be strong enough.
"Capriles' 11-point defeat in October's presidential election, coupled with Chávez's allies winning 20 of 23 gubernatorial elections in December, underscores the fact that the opposition still holds little power," Meacham says.
Will Chavez's death improve relations with the United States?
Chavez, for years had a stormy relationship with the U.S., and would stir up nationalistic sentiment and popularity by picking fights with the "imperialist" United States and its allies.
Senior American officials don't expect the relationship to change dramatically -- at least in the short term -- primarily because Chavez's system still exists.
The post-Chavez era started out tumultuously Tuesday when Venezuelan officials accused two U.S. Embassy officials of plotting to destabilize the country and said it was expelling them.
The United States will stay out of the upcoming election, an Obama administration official said. But the White House wants it to be "free and fair and credible," the official said.
The U.S. remains open to restoring diplomatic relations with an ambassador regardless of the winner, the official said.
Why does the U.S. want better relations?
One reason analysts point to is Iran.
The U.S. may seek Venezuela's help in imposing sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program, senior American officials said.
Iran and Venezuela have close relations.
Last year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveled to Venezuela as part of a tour of Latin America. The two leaders vowed to work together.
Over the years, the two nations have signed more than 270 accords, including trade deals and agreements on construction projects, car and tractor factories, energy initiatives and banking programs.
The other is oil.
Will the death affect Venezuela's oil supply?
It may, some analysts say -- and that would be a huge concern for the United States.
Venezuela remains the fourth-biggest oil supplier to the U.S. market. If the power vacuum causes exports to drop, U.S. consumers could face higher prices and another hit to the U.S. economy, analysts say.
When is Chavez's funeral planned?
Venezuela is planning a state funeral Friday that is expected to be attended by regional and world leaders and dignitaries, including Ahmadinejad. Chavez will be buried after the ceremony but officials have not said where.
What has been the reaction to the death?
Chavez allies, such as leaders of Ecuador, China, Iran and Cuba, expressed sorrow and solidarity.
Bolivian President Evo Morales' voice cracked as he spoke to reporters, describing Chavez as someone "who gave all his life for the liberation of the Venezuelan people ... of all the anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists of the world."
Longtime critics had a different view, with some saying his death could be seen as an opportunity for change.
"At this key juncture, I hope the people of Venezuela can now build for themselves a better, brighter future based on the principles of freedom, democracy," Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.
Opinions varied too among CNN readers who offered their thoughts on iReport.
"We can't in the U.S. always looks at somebody and just label them as a dictator," said Omekongo Dibinga, a motivational speaker from Washington DC.
"At the end of the day, he's somebody who really wanted to help others to do better. For that he should be respected, even by those who did not agree with his policies."
Carlos Quijada said he fled Venezuela 10 years ago as a teen because there was no future there.
"My life was completely altered because of that man. And I will not hide the fact that I am happy that he is no longer alive," he said. "I left Venezuela because my brother got kidnapped, our house got burglarized, cars stolen, my parents had an import business and the currency control made it impossible for them to import anything anymore."
CNN's Dana Ford, Mariano Castillo, Shasta Darlington, Rafael Romo, Henry Hanks and Sarah Brown contributed to this report.


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Snapshots from Greece: Nescafe Frappe
Note: Our own Erin Zimmer just returned from ten days eating and drinking her way around Greece and will be sharing her adventures with us all week as Snapshots from Greece. —Ed.
As a foam supporter, I was pretty happy about the Nescafe Frappe all over Greece. It's about 35-percent foam, 55-percent super strong instant coffee, and 10-percent sludge sitting at the bottom (percentages may vary; all of that was guesstimated). But the foam is some of the best coffee foam around. The micro bubbles don't dissolve into the drink while you're drinking it—they just sit there until you find a proper scooping device. Talk about some long-lasting, high-definition foamage.
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To make a frappe: In a tall glass, add a couple heaping spoons of the Nescafe Frappe spray-dried coffee bits, the optional sugar (but as a warning, that stuff is scary strong without it), then cold water. Use a hand-mixer, or hand with this nifty device, to foamerize it, then add some more water and milk to fill up the glass, topping it off with ice cubes.
Walking past cafes, virtually every customer is kicking back sipping a Frappe. Nescafe seems to own the Frappe market. According to Wikipedia, it all started in 1957 at the International Trade Fair in Thessaloniki. Nestle was showcasing products at a stand and one of the employees came up with the genius foam. Ever since then, Greece has stayed pretty caffeinated. After the jump, watch a vintage ad for Nescafe Frappe.
Bonus: Nescafe Frappe Commercial, 1984
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Snapshots from Greece: The Modiano Market in Thessaloniki
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Vegan newbie and a cheese addict
Hello, my name is Romy and I'm crazy about cheese.
I'm new both this web site and in veganism. I gave up meat four months ago and I never missed or craved it. The next thing was milk and eggs, two months ago. Again, I did not mind excluding them from my diet at all. But one thing I have a really hard time giving up (even more then sugar, I found out I'm ok without it) is cheese. And to make the situation worse- I live in Paris where all vegan cheese is practically non existant (or waaaaay too expensive) while the real deal is literally everywhere. I read it was normal to crave cheese so much since apparently it's addictive (I had no idea). Did any of you have similar problems? Do you have any tricks how to fool your mind and stay on track?
Try making a smoothie instead? Are there non-dairy milks available in Paris? Play around with them and maybe you'll find one that works for you.
Try making cashew cheese. http://www.realfood.com/blog/vegan-cashew-cheese-recipe It's not cheap to make in that you need lots of cashews and agar but it's very good. Can add flavorings to it too. I just served some to some omnis and they all ate it.