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News in Brief: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Richard Thompson, Dengue Fever, Wheat, CIMM Fest
By Ryan Dombal on March 4, 2009 at 5:05 p.m. EST
-- Since the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, It's Blitz!, started leaking all over the internet last week, the band is pushing up its original April 14 release date. Now you'll be able to legally get blitzed in digital formats on March 10 in the U.S. (March 9 elsewhere) and in physical formats March 31 in the U.S. (April 6 elsewhere). Do the right thing, folks-- we need bands like this.
-- Between his work with Fairport Convention, ex-wife Linda Thompson, and his solo albums, Richard Thompson has brought us a daunting amount of music over the last 40 years. On June 30, Shout! Factory offers a Thomps on primer: the 4-CD set Walking on a Wire: Richard Thompson (1969-2009) . The collection features 71 tracks spanning his entire career. But the music vet isn't just sitting on his ass and reflecting nowadays; Thompson has plenty of shows lined up in the near future.
-- Dengue fever is a disease that lasts about seven days and can include nausea, stomach pain, and vomiting. Dengue Fever is also a Khmer band from L.A.! Dengue Fever (the band) is readying a DVD documentary called Sleepwalking Through The Mekong , due as part of a CD/DVD set due April 14 via M80 Music. The film follows the band on a 2005 Cambodia trip, which "marked the first time a Western band had performed classic 60s and 70s Cambodian rock'n'roll in the country where it was created," according to a press release. The accompanying CD includes tracks from Cambodian artists as well as a couple previously unreleased Dengue Fever songs. Also, on May 5 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, Dengue Fever will premiere their original soundtrack to the 1925 silent film The Lost World at a screening during the San Francisco International Film Festival. And the band is on tour now. Catch it?
-- Indie rockers Wheat are back and they're reissuing their first two albums, Medeiros and Hope and Adams , on March 10. The re-release is packaged as a three-disc set, one for each album and one CD full of rarities. Pre-orderers get a free signed poster, so check out the band's website if you like signed stuff. Wheat's new album, White Ink, Black Ink , is due out this spring via The Rebel Group.
-- The 1st Annual Chicago International Movies and Music Festival (CIMM Fest, for those in the know) is coming to the gusty city this weekend. The fest will host Wilco's new concert film, Ashes of American Flags, on March 9 as well as performances from Andre Williams, Dent May, Dex Romweber, and others.
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Anyone mucking about with network security like that needs a kick and quickly. I cannot think of one decent honest reason for this member of staff to be secretly playing with Ranger services. If my technician has an idea that needs Ranger stopping then she'd let me know and I'd let her get on with it. This member of staff needs dragging up before the principal. And then turning into kebabs. Oh, and then you might like to think about locking things down a little.
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text: A Critic at Large July 9, 2012 Issue Seeing It Now Walter Cronkite and the legend of CBS News. By Louis Menand Table of Contents Cronkite announcing the assassination of J.F.K., on November 22, 1963, as seen from a TV monitor. His TV career began in 1950, when he hosted a late-evening news recap. Credit CBS Photo Archive/Getty Douglas Brinkley says he got the idea to write a biography of Walter Cronkite from David Halberstam. During a casual conversation on a long car ride, Halberstam told him that Cronkite was "the most significant journalist of the second half of the twentieth century," and that someone ought to write his biography. Within days, after making sure that no one was already at work, Brinkley was on the case. The life he produced, "Cronkite" (HarperCollins), is long and hastily written, and it's not immediately apparent what Brinkley's take on Cronkite is. Much of the biography is quite critical. In the end, though, Brinkley is determined to back the claim that Halberstam made on that momentous car ride. The Cronkite story has become part of a much larger, decline-of-the-news narrative—the narrative that the new HBO series "Newsroom" is built on, for example, and that Cronkite's deposed successor as CBS News anchor, Dan Rather, pursues in a new book, "Rather Outspoken" (Grand Central Publishing). Some of that narrative may be true, but a lot of it is Camelot, and extracting the facts without damaging the myth is a delicate business. Before Cronkite began his tenure as anchorman on "CBS Evening News," his career was, as Brinkley suggests, longer on résumé-building than on newsbreaking. Cronkite was born in 1916, near Kansas City. His father was a dentist. When Walter was ten, the family moved to Houston. He entered the University of Texas in 1933, but dropped out after two years, then bounced around, working at a wire-service outfit, at a local newspaper, and on radio. He got his first major professional break in December, 1942, when he was assigned to the London bureau of United Press (later U.P.I.). In 1942, London was the place for an American reporter to be, because London was where the king of American correspondents, Edward R. Murrow, was based. Murrow's on-air career had begun adventitiously. He had gone to Europe as an employee of CBS radio, assigned primarily to set up broadcasts of cultural events. He had no reporting experience. In March, 1938, he was in Warsaw when he got a call from one of his associates, William Shirer, who was in Vienna, and who told him that the Germans had entered Austria. It was the Anschluss. Murrow told Shirer to fly to London, where CBS's main facility was, while he scrambled to get to Vienna. He arrived there, via Berlin, two days later. On March 13th, with a German censor at his elbow, he went on the air describing the scene, and a star was born. So was the legend of CBS News. Within a few years, Murrow's eyewitness accounts of the bombing of London had made him a celebrity, and he had begun acquiring an entourage of handpicked disciples known as "the Murrow Boys," a group that eventually included Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Richard Hottelet, and Howard K. Smith, all of whom went on to have major careers in network television. Murrow took notice of Cronkite, and offered him a job reporting for CBS from Stalingrad. Cronkite accepted, but when U.P. responded by giving him a raise Cronkite changed his mind. Brinkley thinks that this was the source of permanent friction between the two men. Cronkite's beat was the airbase at Molesworth, where he interviewed crews of the American Eighth Air Force after cross-Channel bombing runs. He went on a few runs himself; Brinkley doesn't tell us how many, but probably only a few. They were extremely dangerous, and there was little journalistic value in repeating the experience. (Murrow went on more than twenty. He had an irrational relationship to danger.) Cronkite also covered the D Day invasion and the liberation of Europe, though he was not near the front lines. When the war ended, he was assigned to Moscow, where political conditions made real reporting impossible. He returned home in 1948, and was hired as a radio newscaster by KMBC, the CBS affiliate in Kansas City. In 1950, he got his start on television, hosting a late-evening news recap on a CBS-owned station in Washington, D.C. Two years later, he was asked to cover the Republican and Democratic National Conventions after Murrow turned the assignment down. Brinkley suggests that Murrow, like most radio newsmen, didn't take television seriously. What Murrow didn't take seriously, though, was television news, then simply a fifteen-minute recitation of stories redacted from wire-service reports. (Network evening news shows did not go to thirty minutes until 1963; CBS was the first to do so.) In fact, Murrow dominated CBS News in the early nineteen-fifties with two weekly half-hour programs in prime time. One was the hard-news "See It Now," launched in 1951, which Murrow co-produced with Fred Friendly. Its most celebrated shows were the attacks on Senator Joseph McCarthy, broadcast live in March, 1954. Eight months later, McCarthy was censured by the Senate, and his career was finished. Murrow's other program was the ultra-soft "Person to Person," started in 1953, on which he interviewed celebrated people. Murrow also did newscasts five nights a week on CBS radio. Cronkite's career at CBS proceeded by fits and starts until the chairman of the company, William Paley, chose him to replace Douglas Edwards on the evening news, in 1962. During his nineteen years as the nightly news anchor, Cronkite also anchored or co-anchored CBS's coverage of most of the major-party political conventions; he covered every NASA space shot, from Mercury to the Apollo moon landings; and he was on the air seemingly non-stop during national events like the Kennedy assassination and the Bicentennial celebration. In 1981, when he was sixty-five, he voluntarily stepped down as news anchor. He was replaced by Dan Rather, his own choice for the post. He was given a show, "Walter Cronkite's Universe," but it was cancelled after a single season. (It was the usual thing when a star is involved: the network said the show had failed to find an audience; Cronkite said the network had failed to promote it.) In 1984, he co-anchored the Democratic National Convention with Rather. It was not a happy match, and that was pretty much it for Cronkite. Although he lived, in normal good health, for another twenty-five years, his television appearances were infrequent. What accounts for his stature? Cronkite was on television a lot in his heyday, but his run of nineteen years as an anchorman was not exceptional. In a hyper-Darwinian medium in which few prime-time programs manage to survive and reproduce for more than three years, longevity is one of the hallmarks of the position. Between August, 1948, and March, 2005, CBS News had just three anchors (excepting the short, unhappy co-anchorhood of Connie Chung). Edwards had read the evening news for fourteen years before Cronkite replaced him. John Chancellor anchored "NBC Nightly News" for twelve years, and was succeeded by Tom Brokaw, who lasted twenty-two years. Rather was anchor for twenty-four years. Peter Jennings was behind the desk at ABC for thirty years. (One level down in the network pecking order: Chuck Scarborough is in his thirty-eighth year anchoring the news at WNBC, in New York. There is reportedly a portrait of Chuck hidden in an attic.) Nor was "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" always the most watched TV news program. Before 1968, CBS's evening news and its Convention coverage were both consistently beaten in the ratings by NBC, which featured Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, a very effective buddy show. Somewhere along the way, though, Cronkite turned into the gold standard for television newsmen. And he became known as "the most trusted man in America," a phrase that Brinkley invokes repeatedly. Cronkite read with a highly distinctive delivery his scripted portions of a twenty-minute news broadcast—what was left of the half hour after Sevareid's commentary (which Cronkite resented) and the commercials—and he was an indefatigable ad-lib describer of live events. But he was a studio man. He called sources and interviewed Presidents, but, with one famous exception, he did not do much boots-on-the-ground or investigative reporting during his reign as anchor. Front-line reporting was not his job. And he was notoriously a softball interviewer. Broadcast network news lost viewers after Cronkite went off the air, but that wasn't because people missed Cronkite. It was because they got cable. When it comes to the substance of Cronkite's reporting, Brinkley throws many bricks onto the Halberstam-was-wrong side of the scale. He thinks that Cronkite's wartime coverage was blatantly biased. "Most correspondents supplied the puffery only as necessary, to remain on good terms with the P.R. officers," he says. "Cronkite eagerly wrote propaganda for the good of the Allied cause. He was a reporter for Democracy." Brinkley suggests that some of Cronkite's dispatches during the liberation of Europe were deliberately misleading about Allied progress. To beat the competition during the 1952 Republican National Convention, Cronkite and the news director, Sig Mickelson, bugged the room where the Party's credentials committee met, then gave on-air reports based on what they overheard. Brinkley thinks that this helped secure the nomination for Eisenhower, who happened to be a close friend of Paley's—though the claim is a stretch, and that does not seem to have been Cronkite's intention. (The information about the bugging is not new, incidentally. The source is Cronkite's own memoir, "A Reporter's Life," which was published in 1996 and became a No. 1 best-seller.) Cronkite was genuinely fascinated by space exploration. Brinkley acknowledges this, but he thinks that Cronkite's coverage of the space program was motivated partly by ambition—"the heavy truth about him in the late nineteen-fifties was that he had signed up to promote the U.S. Air Force, seeing space as a beat he could own"—and partly by Cold War politics. "Understanding that the American people were keen to beat the Soviet Union in space, Cronkite, the veteran sports broadcaster"—Cronkite had covered football occasionally when he was starting out—"cloaked his reporting in almost jingoistic, high-octane nationalistic, anti-communist rhetoric," Brinkley says. "He was more NASA collaborator than reporter." Brinkley implies that Cronkite pulled his punches (he's inconsistent about how deliberately) in his coverage of Lyndon Johnson, because of Johnson's business relationship with CBS. In 1943, Lady Bird Johnson purchased a radio station in Austin; it became a CBS affiliate, and a source of considerable wealth, and Johnson developed a close association with the president of CBS, Frank Stanton. Brinkley also argues that, for many years, Cronkite was disinclined to be critical of Johnson's Vietnam policies, because he supported military intervention in Southeast Asia himself and because he had a hard time believing that the government would lie. Then, in 1968, everything changed—and this is the mighty brick on the other side of the scale. That is when Cronkite stopped being the quasi-official voice-over on the newsreel of American public life and became an actor in the events he covered. The catalyst was Tet. On January 30th, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong broke a ceasefire and launched a surprise offensive in more than a hundred cities and towns in South Vietnam. The initial reports were of heavy American and South Vietnamese losses. (In the end, Tet was a military disaster for the North, but it was a political victory for them in the West.) At CBS News, in New York, Cronkite read the A.P. wire and was stunned. "I thought we were winning the war!" he is supposed to have shouted to his producers. To his great credit, he decided to go to Vietnam and make his own assessment. The offensive was still under way when he arrived. He interviewed generals and G.I.s, and he travelled to places where the fighting was intense. Brinkley says that Cronkite and his team barely got out of Saigon alive. The upshot was a CBS News special, "Report from Vietnam," broadcast in prime time on February 27th. The program surveyed the state of the war as Cronkite had observed it, and, at the end, he delivered a personal commentary. (Brinkley tells us that it was likely entirely written by one of the show's producers, Ernest Leiser.) The only realistic conclusion he could draw from what he had seen, Cronkite said, was that the war was a stalemate. It was at this moment, Brinkley says, that Cronkite "became more significant than a mere Nielsen ratings winner on the nightly news merry-go-round." (Actually, Cronkite had been losing the ratings race to NBC until very recently.) "He entered the main-game annals of American history." Johnson is supposed to have watched the program, and, when it was over, to have remarked that if he had lost Cronkite he had lost Middle America. A little more than a month later, on Sunday, March 31st, Johnson announced, in a televised address, that he would not seek another term as President. The Vietnam broadcast and the Presidential reaction have become known as "the Cronkite moment." Soon after "Report from Vietnam" was broadcast, Cronkite attended a private, off-the-record lunch with Robert F. Kennedy, then the junior senator from New York. Brinkley says that Cronkite urged Kennedy to enter the Presidential race and run in the Democratic primaries against Johnson. Kennedy replied that he would if Cronkite would agree to run for the Senate from New York; Cronkite demurred. "Cronkite forfeited electoral politics," Brinkley says, "to protect the integrity of American journalism." On March 16th, Kennedy announced his candidacy for President. And from that point on, Brinkley thinks, it was Cronkite Unbound. He had shed his Cold War world view, and he had broken the barrier between news and opinion. The newsman had become a player. The trouble with this inspiring little story is that most of it is either invented or disputed. Johnson's reaction to the broadcast appears to have been first reported in Halberstam's big book on the news media, "The Powers That Be," which came out in 1979. Halberstam said that Johnson watched the broadcast in Washington, then said to his press secretary, George Christian, that "if he had lost Walter Cronkite, he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. It solidified his decision not to run again." "It was the first time in American history that a war has been declared over by an anchorman," Halberstam wrote. Brinkley quotes the sentence with approval. But, as W. Joseph Campbell, following up on research by David Culbert, explains in "Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misrepresented Stories in American Journalism" (2010), Johnson did not see "Report from Vietnam" when it was broadcast. He was in Austin, attending a birthday celebration for Governor John Connally. When Cronkite delivered his commentary, Johnson was giving a toast. There is no solid evidence that Johnson ever saw the show on tape, either, though the White House did tape it. Interviewed about the incident in 1979, Christian was unable to recall exactly which comments of Cronkite's Johnson might have been reacting to, or when, or what exactly Johnson had said. Later, in an oral-history interview, Christian was presented with the claim that Cronkite's program was pivotal to Johnson's decision not to run, and replied, "I don't buy that. It didn't quite happen that way." Johnson's speeches on Vietnam after February 27th were as hawkish as ever. Not only is there little evidence that the broadcast had an effect on Johnson; there is little evidence that it had an effect on public opinion. Opinion-poll numbers on Johnson and the war had already begun to shift. Even in the mainstream media, the view that the war could not be won was becoming conventional wisdom by 1968. The Times and the Wall Street Journal had already carried pieces suggesting that the conflict was unwinnable. (Brinkley implies that it was Cronkite's commentary that emboldened the Journal to criticize the war, but the Journal editorial appeared four days before the broadcast.) On March 10th, three weeks before Johnson's withdrawal, NBC broadcast a report on which Frank McGee said not that the war was "mired in stalemate," which is what Cronkite had said, but that it was being lost. At first, Cronkite himself didn't think the program had made much of an impact. CBS did not receive an unusual number of letters after the show, he wrote in "A Reporter's Life," and "there was no reaction from the administration, official or unofficial." He says that he later learned that the President "and some of his staff" had watched the broadcast with Christian and Bill Moyers. " 'The president flipped off the set,' Moyers recalled, 'and said: 'If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America,' " Cronkite wrote. Cronkite doesn't say where Moyers said this, but Moyers was no longer working in the White House in February, 1968. He had left in 1967 to become publisher of Newsday. Contrary to what Halberstam seemed to suggest, Johnson did not make his decision to withdraw from the race for President after hearing Cronkite's report. He had been contemplating it for some time: on the day he delivered the January, 1968, State of the Union address, he carried a piece of paper announcing his withdrawal in his pocket but decided not to use it. A much more likely catalyst for Johnson's announcement on March 31st was Kennedy's entry into the race. Theodore White's account of Johnson's decision to withdraw, in "The Making of the President 1968," makes no mention of Walter Cronkite. Did Cronkite expedite Kennedy's decision? The claim that Cronkite told Kennedy that he had "a duty" to run has been around for a while. Martin Plissner, who was involved in CBS's Presidential campaign coverage for many years, repeats it, without attribution, in "Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections" (2000). The only source Brinkley provides for that journalistically inappropriate conversation is a column published in the Washington Post, in 2009, by the man who was Kennedy's press secretary at the time, Frank Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz, who is reportedly writing his memoirs, is now eighty-eight. Pressed about his story, in an interview with Brian Lamb, on C-SPAN, Mankiewicz was vague about when the lunch took place. Lamb showed him a clip of Cronkite's Vietnam broadcast; Mankiewicz said he thought the meeting happened before that. Brinkley ignores Cronkite's own account of the conversation. In "A Reporter's Life," Cronkite says that he did not encourage Kennedy to enter the race; he only asked him why, given his unhappiness with the Administration, he didn't run against Johnson. And he explicitly says that Mankiewicz was not present. It was just the two of them. Cronkite recalls speaking with Mankiewicz on the phone shortly afterward, and sensing that Mankiewicz was "a little miffed" that he had not been allowed to sit in. Either Cronkite was lying in his memoirs or this was a politically motivated rumor. Brinkley notes that there has been some "scholarly controversy" about these events, and he even cites Campbell's book. But he is determined to preserve the Cronkite moment by inserting the retrospective legend back into its slot in the postwar time line. When Johnson announced his decision not to run, Brinkley writes, Cronkite's "Report from Vietnam" was "immediately seen as a catalyst by pundits in the Monday newspapers. . . . Cronkite turned dove, and the hawk Johnson lost his talons." Searches of the print media on Nexis and ProQuest yield not a single mention of Cronkite in the reaction to Johnson's speech. Few journalists thought that Cronkite's skepticism about the war was a big deal. In 1968, you did not need an anchorman to know which way the wind blew. The story behind Cronkite's reputation as the most trusted man in America has also required some cosmetic attention. In 1972, an opinion research outfit, Oliver Quayle and Company, asked people which public figures they trusted most. Of the choices the company provided, Cronkite came out ahead, scoring seventy-three per cent. CBS was not reluctant to publicize this result; and, informed that he was now the most trusted man in America, Cronkite said, "I'll be glad to wear the crown." The poll "confirmed overnight what had long been apparent," Brinkley writes: "Cronkite was the ultimate reliable source." The Quayle poll was a survey of voters in only eighteen states, and the question about trust was a "thermometer" question designed to measure the general level of trust in public figures. Cronkite was the only newsman on the list. All the rest were politicians. In second place behind Cronkite was "average senator" (sixty-seven per cent), followed by Edmund Muskie (sixty-one per cent). As Jack Shafer has noted in Slate, in a survey taken in 1974, specifically of attitudes toward television newscasters, Cronkite finished fourth in the best-liked category, behind Chancellor, Harry Reasoner, and Howard K. Smith. In 1985, a Gallup poll gave Cronkite the highest believability rating among (mostly) people in the news business. By then, of course, he was off the air. Cronkite came to believe (and Brinkley agrees) that the man who put him out in the electronic cold was Rather. After stepping down as anchor, Cronkite could easily have gone to ABC News, which, under the new leadership of Roone Arledge, was building its brand aggressively, or to CNN, which had been founded in 1980. Both networks tried to hire him. But he chose to stay at CBS, thinking that the network would want to use him. It was a choice he came, quite bitterly, to regret. He concluded that Rather regarded him as competition, and that the network supported its new evening-news star. "It can be said that Rather was the only man whom Cronkite despised," Brinkley writes. Rather is not an easy person to like. Howard Kurtz, in his book on the television-news wars, "Reality Show" (2007), says that Rather had few real friends inside CBS News, where he worked for more than forty years. "Dan's a liar," Rather's onetime "60 Minutes" colleague Morley Safer told Brinkley, "and an unbelievably paranoid guy." But, in "Rather Outspoken," Rather is unfailingly admiring of his reporter colleagues and his producers. Loyalty is his book's great theme. The book is principally a defense of the story that got Rather removed from the anchor job and ultimately from CBS—his 2004 "60 Minutes" report on George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard, in which Rather relied on documents, purportedly detailing Bush's delinquency, of dubious provenance. There is also some career recapping in the book (before 1981, it was an amazing career), and efforts to explain some of the weirder moments during his tenure as anchorman, such as the night he walked off the set when coverage of a tennis match ran over and the network went black for six minutes. He does not explain his decision, on his first broadcast, to deliver the news standing up. (Brinkley says Rather made that decision minutes before airtime, because he refused to sit in Cronkite's old chair.) It's all written in the rhetorical blend of "Gladiator" and the Grand Ol' Opry that is Ratherspeak. Kurtz notes that Rather is a person "who even in private could talk like a medieval knight." Rather has only agreeable things to say about Cronkite in "Rather Outspoken." He does have disagreeable things to say about the president of CBS and the head of the news division. But the villain of his story is Sumner Redstone, who, at the time of the National Guard debacle, was the chairman of Viacom, which owned CBS. (Unwisely, Rather sued CBS and Viacom after he was let go. The case was tossed out.) Rather's belief is that he was thrown under the bus by corporation men who betrayed the legacy of CBS News to protect their profits. "From the days of Edward R. Murrow through civil rights, through Vietnam, through Watergate and into the 1980s," he says, "reporting the truth, regardless of who was trying to cover it up . . . was a virtue unto itself and needed no further justification. This fundamental doctrine was handed down from CBS patriarch William S. Paley himself." Of Rather's many loyalties, the ultimate one is to that legacy. He really does believe in Camelot. When people talk about the corporatization of network news, they mean that something that was once run in the service of truth and the public interest is now being run according to the principles of the marketplace. No one seems to remember that television networks are corporations to begin with. They are creatures of a particular political, financial, and legal environment, and, as that environment changes, they adapt. CBS didn't become corporate when Viacom acquired it. The Columbia Broadcasting System was a corporation when Paley—already a wealthy man; his family was in the cigar business—bought it, in 1928. Paley was nothing if not a businessman. A number of associates have testified to his obsession with profits. As Sally Bedell Smith showed in her biography of Paley, "In All His Glory" (1990), and as Lewis Paper described, in more detail, in "Empire: William S. Paley and the Making of CBS" (1987), Paley's commitment to the news was largely a function of legal and political conditions—it varied as the conditions varied—and of his sense of news programming's impact on his bottom line. CBS made much more money from its soap operas and situation comedies, deliberately dumb programs like "As the World Turns," "The Beverly Hillbillies," and "Gilligan's Island." A news division satisfied the "public service" requirements of the F.C.C., whose commissioners are appointed by the President, and which could at any time have broken the networks' oligopolistic grip on the broadcast spectrum. Paley's CBS was not the place Dan Rather imagines. In "Getting It Wrong," Campbell discusses Murrow's 1954 "See It Now" programs on McCarthy. He notes, as have others, that those shows were very late in the day. People who knew Murrow wondered why he waited so long: by 1954, McCarthy had been hunting witches for four years, though not a single person he accused of being a spy or a subversive was ever proved to be one. Murrow and Friendly did not pretend that they were out front on the issue. Murrow read anti-McCarthy editorials from a number of newspapers on the first of the 1954 programs, and cited a speech attacking McCarthy that had been delivered on the Senate floor earlier in the day. Murrow's program was powerful television, in part because it used a lot of footage of McCarthy, one of the least telegenic of men. But McCarthy was ultimately brought down by the Army-McCarthy hearings, which were held from April through June of 1954. That was where Joseph Welch, the counsel for the Army, confronted McCarthy with his famous denunciation: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" Although the hearings were televised, CBS didn't carry them. ABC did; CBS ran soap operas. The television critic of the Times, Jack Gould, wrote that ABC, not Murrow, killed McCarthy. And even Friendly later admitted that it was ABC's coverage, more than the "See It Now" program he had produced, that led to McCarthy's demise. Paley was upset by Murrow's broadcast. CBS declined to buy newspaper ads for the program, and when the Paleys called Murrow after the show it was Mrs. Paley who did the talking. Paley might have been unhappy partly because of the Fairness Doctrine, which required networks to air opposing viewpoints, something with little appeal to sponsors. (McCarthy did go on CBS to respond to Murrow, though his loopy performance did not help his case.) Paley was also allergic to controversy because he didn't want to alienate viewers or politicians, and after 1954 he undertook to shut Murrow and Friendly down. The program started being moved around on the schedule; people in the industry began to refer to it as "See It Now and Then." Finally, in 1958, after a stormy argument, in Paley's office, between Murrow and Paley, with an astonished Friendly looking on, the show was killed. Five months later, Murrow gave a speech in Chicago criticizing television for "decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live," and Murrow and Paley, who had been close friends since meeting in London during the war, did not have a civil conversation again until just before Murrow's death, of cancer, in 1965. The history of television news is studded with career-damaging journalistic train wrecks. Conflict was built into the system from the start: airtime is finite, and some percentage had to be sold to sponsors, most of whom preferred to be associated with the upbeat and the noncontroversial. Paley pushed Howard K. Smith out of CBS in 1961, because he thought that Smith's sympathetic coverage of the civil-rights movement was too opinionated. (This opened the door for Cronkite to be named anchor.) In 1965, CBS reassigned Safer from Vietnam to London because of the reaction to Safer's report on the torching by American soldiers of the village of Cam Ne. (Rather replaced him.) Paley and Stanton forced Friendly out in 1966, when he made a fuss about CBS's decision to stop broadcasting George Kennan's testimony at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the war in Vietnam. NBC, which had little going for it anyway in daytime programming, carried the proceedings; CBS showed reruns, including a fifth broadcast of an episode of "I Love Lucy." Six years later, Paley ordered a news program on Watergate to be cut down, in response to complaints from Nixon's aide Charles Colson. In short, Rather's ouster after the National Guard broadcast belongs to a distinguished tradition. It was always a battle getting controversial subjects and opinions on the air in the era of the broadcast networks, whose motto might have been "Offend no one." Cable, which has a very different business model, is another story. Since cable viewers are billed just to watch, no matter which channels they prefer, opinion pays. The makers of cable news don't need to attract everyone; they just need to establish a loyal niche audience. A piece of your monthly cable payment goes to Fox News, whether you care for it or not. A piece goes to MSNBC. Journalism and history are about getting things right. But the past has many uses, and one of them is to inspire the present. People in any profession like to create an imaginary past, populated by the Ones Who Came Before. Sometimes, we figure these people to be narrow-minded fools and feel motivated to demonstrate our own superior tolerance and sophistication. More honorably, if not necessarily more accurately, we imagine our predecessors as nobler and braver than our small and anxious selves—as men and women who stuck up for principle and, by their righteousness, moved the world. 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What Do You Know Now? part of Cutting Edge:Metacognition:Activities
An opportunity to offer metacognitive teaching arises from the simple question "what do you know now that you didn't before (whatever)"? This simple question can be asked after a reading, a lecture, a lab or other unit of student activity. The thrust is to force the student to consider what they've been exposed to and reflect on what they've learned. Did the activity change their opinion? Did this activity help them identify an analogy?
Challenging Pre-Conceptions part of Cutting Edge:Metacognition:Activities
Students carry into class pre-conceptions based on stories they've heard, articles they've read and experiences they've had. One of the best opportunities to teach metacognition is at a 'gotcha' moment when they come to realize their pre-conception is amiss.
Laboratory Preview and Preparation Sessions part of MnSCU Partnership:PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Prior to attending each lab, students are required to answer several questions, related to the lab, using an online class management system.
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Peer instruction may offer some of the richest opportunities for metacognitive teaching. Reciprocal (peer) teaching forces the instructor to use a whole series of metacognitive processes such as determining what ...
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Provide opportunities to experience historic and/or current scientific information through audio/visual media. Further, these sessions allow students to express and discuss their understanding of the science content and its relevance prior to writing a summary.
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students examine the histogram of a positively skewed data set and calculate its mean, median and mode.
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This activity is a field trip investigation where students gather stream flow, volume, depth & height (area) data on Ramsey County dams (Keller and Round lake), interpret their findings and make in-depth observations in order to assess the effectiveness of dams through the season and estimate the life-spam of the dams in years.
Our Big Backyard: How does our local ecosystem change during the year? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
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- Overall Length: 8.75"
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- Handle Length: 4.00"
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- Knife Type: Automatic
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- Brand: Buck
- Model: 0110BRS-B
- Country of Origin: USA
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Beautiful Buck 110 automatic single action conversion- knife has been converted so that when you push the custom brass firing button, the knife opens automatically. This is a single action conversion which means the knife can only be opened by firing the button and can not be opened manually. This knife is gorgeous and features beautiful rosewood handles. The bolsters are brass and complement the handle very well. The conversion quality on these is excellent! Comes with leather sheath and is new in box. These are fully functional knives converted and customized by skilled craftsmen, but we do not recommend them for heavy use.
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With today's newscasts full of stories about a second Dallas healthcare worker contracting the Ebola virus, people are focused on this woman and the 75 other Dallas healthcare workers (and their pets!) being monitored for symptoms. So what does this have to do with our usual subject of international corruption? Plenty, as it turns out. Read More
In prior blog posts, we have discussed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement by the United States government through the SEC and/or the U.S. Department of Justice. But we've also said that countries other than the U.S. or the UK, viewed by some as the worldwide leaders in anti-corruption enforcement, are getting into the act. China has now ramped up its anti-corruption enforcement, adding more risks for those companies, and their employees, doing business in China or with Chinese entities. So let's talk about China's laws as they affect your business activities and some steps you might want to take to minimize your exposure to problems. Read More
India Coal Permits
India's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that over 200 coal permits granted by the government between 1993 and 2009-2011 were illegally allocated, citing lack of accountability and the opaqueness of the process.[1] The bench determined that the screening committee, set up in 1992 for the purpose of vetting private companies for ownership and operation of coal mines, did not follow any guidelines or use any objective criteria for the evaluation of applications. The court further held that the central government lacked the power to allocate coal blocks, a practice which should have been carried out by the states.[2] This ruling comes in the wake of an audit report by India's federal auditor in 2012 which indicated that the government lost $33 billion by selectively allocating mines to producers rather than holding competitive auctions.[3] Consequences of this decision are unknown at this time, pending further hearings regarding whether previously issued licenses should be removed.
The ruling will likely have a profound impact on India's already pressing energy concerns, as the stability of coal production is jeopardized, forcing India to increase imports of coal or raise the price of domestic natural gas to incentivize production.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/business/international/india-allocated-coal-fields-to-private-companies-illegally-top-court-rules.html?_r=0
[2] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/all-coal-block-licences-since-1993-illegal-supreme-court/
[3] http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/08/26/breakingviews-india-coal-idINL3N0QW1IP20140826?feedType=RSS&feedName=everything&virtualBrandChannel=11709
Iraq Fails To Seize Kurdish Crude Oil Bound for Texas
The saga of 1,032,212 barrels of crude oil continues. A week ago, a tanker carrying over a million barrels of crude oil from the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq arrived 60 miles off the Port of Galveston, Texas.
It had been a very unusual journey. The Kurdish crude was produced in the Kurdish region in December of last year, and pumped through a recently completed pipeline traversing the Kurdish region directly to Turkey. It was then loaded in Ceyhan, Turkey onto the vessel, the United Kalavrvta, operating under the flag of the Marshall Islands. Although the manifest of the ship stated Augusta, Georgia as its port of call, then changed to Gibraltar, it arrived into the Texas Gulf of Mexico late last week. Read More
Iraqi Kurds Seek Energy Independence
Iraq and its semiautonomous state Kurdistan have frequently been at odds, especially since the latest oil boom in the latter. After months of trying to come to a deal with Baghdad, Kurdish officials began shipping crude oil to Turkey. The oil was stored in Kurdistan before it was exported, prompting Iraq to threaten to take the matter to the United Nations and mount a legal challenge against the Kurds as well as Turkey. However, Kurdistan doesn't seem to be heeding these warnings and instead is relying on oil to secure its independence. Read More
China and Russia Ink Mega Gas Deal
On May 20, 2014 reports broke[1] that a long anticipated gas deal[2] between China and Russia would not be forthcoming on Russian President Vladimir Putin's current trip to China. Hours later[3] the blockbuster deal to sell up to 38 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas a year to energy hungry China for a term of between 20 and 30 years to begin in 2018 was announced. Negotiations regarding the deal have been going on for at least a decade with pricing being the major sticking point. However the final pricing terms were unannounced, so it is unclear if this is a final agreement or another in a series of memoranda of understanding. The route the pipeline will take to transport the gas from Russia to China was also not disclosed. Agreements regarding coal and LNG exports to China were also formally signed.[4]
Many in the West see the timing of this deal as a reflection of Russia's need to diversify away from its reliance on gas exports to Europe. While this is certainly a factor it must be remembered that this deal was going to happen regardless of Russia's relations with Europe as China has been extremely active in securing long term access to energy supplies. Perhaps most notably last year when Chinese President Xi Jinping went on a tour of Central Asia and returned to Beijing with energy supply agreements from Kazakhstan[5], Tajikistan, Turkmenistan[6], and Uzbekistan[7]. Nonetheless it appears likely that China was able to obtain better terms from Russia than in the past. Whether this is a result of current geopolitical concerns, diversification of supply, or both is unclear. What is clear is that this is one of, if not the largest, gas supply deals in history. No doubt the final terms of the deal will make for interesting reading.
[2] http://www.platts.com/latest-news/natural-gas/moscow/gazprom-says-expects-to-sign-gas-supply-deal-26644803?wt.mc_id=allcommodities_012314&wt.tsrc=eloqua
[4] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d9a8b800-e09a-11e3-9534-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmarkets_emerging%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct&siteedition=intl
[5] http://www.law360.com/energy/articles/528212/sinopec-to-pay-1-2b-to-buy-out-lukoil-in-kazakhstan-jv
[6] http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/09/05/xis-gas-diplomacy-good-for-china-less-good-for-gazprom/
U.A.E. is America's Largest Export Destination in MENA Region for the Fifth Year in a Row
In 2013, the U.A.E. imported USD $26.9 billion in U.S. exports, making it the U.S.A.'s largest export destination in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the fifth year in a row. The fact that new U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker started her inaugural tour from Abu Dhabi and Dubai indicates how Washington values the commercial ties between both countries.
Confirming this, Pritzker addressed an audience in Abu Dhabi saying, "Our bilateral friendship reaches all the way back to the U.A.E.'s foundation. We have supported each other in countless ways. Clearly, the U.S. and the U.A.E. share a commitment to preserving the stability and security throughout the Gulf and that commitment won't change, even as the U.S. becomes more energy independent."
Only an eight-hour flight from most of the world's strongest and emerging markets, the U.A.E. boasts world-class and multi-modal infrastructure that satisfies the needs of global travelers as they connect from the Emirates to economic hubs in MENA and the rest of the world. With the U.S.'s support, Emirati business leaders are learning how to become more ingenious and innovative while competing on a global stage.
Both the U.S. and the U.A.E. are currently creating commercial partnerships and innovative projects, especially in the infrastructure development and green build, energy development, transportation, media and tourism, education, and energy development sectors. These projects are in part a result of the U.A.E.'s economic development plans (e.g. U.A.E. Vision 2021 and Abu Dhabi Vision 2030) and President Barack Obama's national export initiative.
Pritzker commented, "We are helping to build a legal environment where entrepreneurs can have the ability to try, fail, and try again, which is crucial. Entrepreneurship is something that is near and dear to my heart, having started five companies myself, so there are a lot of ways we can work together on that."
Khalfan Al Kaabi, the vice president of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce, agreed saying that the country plans to build bridges with the U.S. and maintain them. "As we go through an economic growth in Abu Dhabi, we see there are more opportunities that can be concluded between our members and their U.S. counterparts," he said. "As a business community, we must take advantage of this excellent reality."
The U.A.E.'s government has committed billions of dollars to expand its airports and infrastructure across the country, including a multi-modal rail system that would link it to neighboring GCC countries. By planning these projects, the Emirates has added American industry to its list of key commercial partners. And by the looks of it, American private and public sector leaders will become active members in this process.
Kurdistan Oil Exports Crisis Coming to an End: Baghdad and KRG near a Deal
Despite successfully flowing Kurdish crude to Turkey earlier this year, Kurdistan is unable to start exporting internationally until Baghdad approves the deal. However, despite threats from both sides, the Anglo-Turkish exploration and production company, Genel Energy, is expecting that the Baghdad-Erbil oil issues would be resolved.
Officials so far aren't reaching a point of agreement. While Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister of Energy Affairs, Hussein Shahristani, announced that Erbil and Baghdad have agreed on "the mechanism of exporting oil through SOMO (State Oil Marketing Organization)", a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) spokesman, Safeen Dizayee, contradicted this saying that there is no such agreement between Kurdistan and the federal government. Muayad Tayib, a spokesperson for the Kurdistani Alliance in the Iraqi parliament, confirmed Dizayee's statement calling Shahristani's comments "baseless."
With tensions rising between both governments, the U.S. stepped in as a mediator. Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, shuttled between Erbil and Baghdad to find a common ground. As a result, on March 22, the KRG announced its plans to resume exporting 100,000 barrels a day through the Iraqi pipeline beginning April 1.
The KRG's official website quoted Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani as saying, "As a goodwill gesture, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has offered to make a contribution to the Iraqi oil pipeline exports to give the negotiations (with Baghdad) the maximum chance of success." He added, "The KRG contribution to oil export will be 100,000 barrels per day effective 1st April 2014, and will continue while the negotiations are proceeding in a positive direction."
In addition to the U.S. involvement, Kurdistan's decision to flow oil through Iraq's pipelines may have been spurred by the central government's decision to cut off funding to the KRG, causing the latter to delay paying some government salaries. While unofficial reports say that the U.S. pressured Baghdad to pay the KRG budget allocation for February, the payment for March is yet to be sent through.
To ensure that both sides reach a mutually beneficial agreement, the U.S. will take part in the upcoming negotiations. In a statement by the embassy, the U.S. invited both sides to discuss exports and find a solution. "The United States urges the joint GOI-KRG committee, comprising experts from the GOI's Ministry of Oil and the KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources, to meet and assess future month-to-month export targets based on technical capacities and in a manner consistent with the Iraqi Constitution."
Meanwhile, the U.S. will be a "neutral broker and facilitator" to the extent both governments agree on and according to the Strategic Framework Agreement with Iraq. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden believes that Erbil-Baghdad oil issues can be solved with the help of dialogue and understanding.
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Kurdistan Oil Exports Face Continued Political Hurdles
In January 2014, Kurdish crude successfully flowed into Turkey, where it was to be stored until Iraq decided to waive its claim over Kurdish oil. Turkish Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz told the press that he believed the first exports to actual customers could start by the end of January. However, February doesn't bear tidings of a solution any time soon.
On January 27, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met with Kurdish lawmakers from the Iraqi parliament to discuss the region's oil exports. The central government in Baghdad had threatened both the KRG and Turkey, indicating that any kind of trade would violate national laws. Without Baghdad's approval, Kurdish oil would not cross Turkish borders.
As a result, despite the oil's availability, buyers are few. The largest energy companies fear Baghdad's wrath, especially since Iraq has signed major crude oil supply contracts and is considered one of the world's largest oil producers. A senior executive of a large energy company commented, "We will not be involved in KRG tenders until we have a much better understanding of the ramifications for our relationship with Iraq." Two other companies which also refused to be named said that they would not be part of the bidding process initiated by the KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources.
Kurdistan is rich in oil and has already approved exploration licenses for some of the largest energy companies including ExxonMobil and Total. However, it's 200,000 barrels a day doesn't contribute much to the global market. In addition, executives are worried about stepping into a dispute that has the KRG and energy-hungry Turkey pitted against Iraq and the U.S. The U.S. appears to be concerned that direct Kurdish crude oil exports may lead to a break up of the Iraqi state.
The Kurdish government, however, is trying its best to export its oil resources and to please the central Iraqi government. It is offering to sell two million barrels at official Iraqi prices. In addition, the KRG invited Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization to observe the process while assuring Baghdad that it will receive a majority of the revenues.
Unfortunately, these efforts are not met with much enthusiasm because Baghdad still insists that the State Oil Marketing Organization should be fully in control of all Iraqi oil exports. As a result, the central government is pushing energy providers not to take part in the Kurdish tender. In a statement, the organization said, "Companies [that participate in the tender] shall be subject to legal proceedings."
BP and Royal Dutch Shell have aligned themselves with the central government to protect major projects in the country's southern region. Meanwhile, Total, Chevron and Repsol continue to rely on Iraqi crude despite defying the government and getting exploration licenses in Kurdistan. Even independent trading houses have taken a stance. Swiss traders Vitol and Glencore continue to supply fuel to Iraq while Trafigura has been blacklisted from such contracts because it traded Kurdish oil.
Due to the lack of sales from the largest oil buyers, experts recommend that the KRG rely on one-off sales to smaller trading houses. However, that will limit the impact of the tender, which some think is being used to force Baghdad to approve the exports.
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India Gas Prices Set to Double
The Indian government has approved a price hike for Indian gas to $8.4 per BTU from between $4.2 to $5.7 per BTU, effective April 1, 2014.[1] The gas price increase will be applicable to Reliance Industries (RIL), Oil India (OIL) and India Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONCG) nominated fields, which are classified as Administered Pricing Mechanism gas (APM gas), as well as coalbed methane and shale gas.[2] Newly approved gas price recommendations will be valid for five years and reviewed on a quarterly basis.[3]
It remains to be seen whether subsidies will be decreased in proportion to the gas price hike so as to negate the net benefits of such prices increases. Another potential downside of this development is the viability of gas-fired power plants, the capacity of which is already down due to lower gas availability, but which would be further non-viable without additional subsidy announcements which would promote investment in capacity construction.[4]
Higher prices directly benefit producers of APM gas because as investments in deepwater gas discoveries and previously uneconomical fields become viable, higher gas production will result in additional revenues for future investment. Previously underdeveloped assets will become more economically feasible to develop.[5] RIL could almost double production by 2018 in response to elevated gas prices, helping India meet its growing energy demand without relying as heavily on imports.[6] Oil Minister Veerappa Moily estimates that of the estimated $1 billion in additional revenue operators can expect, $400-500 million will be passed along to the government in the form of taxes and royalty, which it can then use to subsidize power and fertilizer facilities.[7] Companies like RIL, which already have a presence in the U.S. shale gas market,[8] could purpose additional revenue for the acquisition of U.S. gas and development of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects.
[1] http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/01/13/india-gas-price-hike-official/
[2] http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/brokerage-recos-sector-report/gas-price-hike-may-benefit-ongc-oil-india-icicidirectcom_1023818.html
[3] http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/brokerage-recos-sector-report/gas-price-hike-may-benefit-ongc-oil-india-icicidirectcom_1023818.html
[4] http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/gas-price-hike-puts-at-risk-under-construction-gas-power-plants-114011300729_1.html
[5] http://profit.ndtv.com/news/industries/article-cng-price-may-rise-by-steep-rs-8-per-kg-from-april-report-377579
[7] http://profit.ndtv.com/news/industries/article-cng-price-may-rise-by-steep-rs-8-per-kg-from-april-report-377579


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There are a number of similarities between the two Augustana College men's basketball teams that, at least for a few more hours, share the longest win streak in school history.
Coach Jim Borcherding's 1972-73 team set the mark at 19 straight games in a season in which those Vikings finished 29-2 and finished in third place at the NAIA National Tournament.
This season's Vikings of Coach Grey Giovanine are 19-0, ranked No. 3 in the latest D3hoops.com national poll and are just one of four undefeated NCAA Division III teams left in the country. They can take the school's consecutive win streak mark tonight (or maybe Thursday if the game is postponed by weather) when they host North Park (9-10, 3-56 CCIW) at Carver Center at 8 p.m.
If the record changes hands, one person will be very happy for the team – Borcherding.
"Records were made to be broken,'' said the iconic coach, who finished with a remarkable 314-99 record in 15 seasons on the Viking bench. "I'm really happy for them. They have a lot of good things going for them.''
There are a couple of similarities and unique characteristics that have directly led to the success of each team that sharesthe win-streak mark. One is that both teams share a very business-like approach; you see a very even-keel attitude on the court, but also a wealth of confidence. The physical attributes of each also make them special.
For the group 38 years ago, it was the twin towers of John Laing and Bruce Hamming – who both stood 6-foot-11 – and a game built for a half-court attack.
"We had the size with the two big guys and we played so well together,'' said Borcherding of that group that also included point guard Drew Boster, shooting guard Mark Brooks and gunning forward Chuck Menzer.
This year's bunch features a group of six front-line players 6-6 or taller and a defense that has been nothing short of stifling.
One thing that separates the two – up to this point – is the level of national recognition they have received. Borcherding's bunch was featured in the "College Basketball'' section in Sports Illustrated. The two-page spread under the headline "The Swedes are meatballs no more'' was accompanied by a photo of Borcherding, flanked by Laing and Hamming.
"It gave us notoriety,'' said Borcherding. "The players loved it; it gave us some attention. It was kind of a fun thing and they enjoyed it. They got as many copies as they could to pass out to their friends.''
While this season's bunch has received recognition via the polls, there has been no SI spread yet.
In the polls, Borcherding's Vikings were ranked as high as No. 2 in the country and had won their first 10 games of the season. Then came a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup with Sam Houston State in the title game of the Quincy Holiday Tournament. The Vikings dropped a reportedly controversial 64-63 decision.
"The lead changed hands 20 or 25 times in that game,'' recalled Borcherding. "I'll keep saying it – we didn't lose that game, we just ran out of time to win it.''
Then the Vikings proceeded to rattle off their 19 straight victories that carried them into the NAIA National Championship semifinals in the week-long event at the since-demolished Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.
Two easy victories in K.C. were followed by scares against Hanover (66-65) and Defiance (64-61) as another easy victory kept the Vikings on track for a potential rematch with Sam Houston State. But that didn't happen. Instead, Augie ended up playing Guilford in the semifinals.
It ended up being a battle of wills and styles. Guilford featured future NBA stars Lloyd "World B'' Free and M.L. Carr "and a 6-9, 26-year-old ex-Marine playing center for them,'' recalled Borcherding. "We got beat by eight points (77-69) and only shot 29 percent. We were just intimidated.''
Augie – even though it scored 80 or more points 14 times and cracked 100 three times that season -- was more than content to keep is slow and steady.
"That was why we had the success we did in Kansas City; we really drove the quicker teams crazy,'' said Borcherding. "The style of ball we played was very favorable for us in the national tournament.''
The Vikings bounced back for a 99-93 victory over Slippery Rock to wrap up the season in third place.
Borcherding said the two losses stood out as the most memorable games that season. "The Sam Houston State game was just such a great game, it was unbelievable,'' he said. "The Guilford game was great, too, and if we had shot better, we could have won that game.''
Another game in that win streak, though, still leaves Borcherding shaking his head – a 12-6 CCIW victory at Carroll (Wis.) College that followed a 37-34 victory over Carthage to start a "Winter Wonderland Tour'' of Wisconsin.
"That was unreal,'' said Borcherding. "I've tried to put that one in the past. They held the ball the whole game; we obviously didn't have the shot clock and you couldn't do that today. They didn't even try to win it, that's the problem. They just tried to keep the score down. It was very frustrating for our players.''
Borcherding contends that that core group could have been the Augie football team of the 1980s with multiple NCAA Div. III titles.
"In all fairness to the 1972-73 team, they would have won several Division III national championships if there had been a Division III for them,'' said Borcherding, noting that level of play didn't come into existence until the 1974-75 school year when that group of Vikings placed third in the Div. III tourney.
Augie has two DIII runner-up teams -- Borcherding's 1980-81 crew and Steve Yount's 1992-93 club.
Borcherding is going to be the biggest fan of this bunch as they hope to top that accomplishment.
"I'd really love to see them win the whole thing,'' said Borcherding.
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Allied Recycling Center and Recycling Walpole pay $125,000 for alleged wetlands violations and improper handling of materials.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has announced that two recycling companies, Allied Recycling Center Inc. and Recycling Walpole LLC, have agreed to pay a total of $125,000 for allegedly filling and excavating protected wetlands and improperly handling the storage of solid and hazardous waste materials at a recycling facility in Walpole, Mass.
Under terms of the consent judgment, entered in Suffolk (Mass.) Superior Court, the two companies also will restore wetlands, properly dispose of the solid and asbestos-containing waste and correct any handling, storage or reporting of oil or hazardous waste materials at the site.
"Wetlands serve important environmental functions and those who damage or destroy these valuable resources will be held accountable," says Coakley. "We are pleased that this settlement will ensure wetlands restoration and the cleanup of hazardous waste materials dumped on the property."
According to the complaint, the two companies had been illegally filling and altering wetland areas at and near their 17-acre property since as early as 1988, including wetlands subject to a conservation restriction recorded in 1976.
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In addition to paying the civil penalty, the settlement requires the defendants to restore 1.5 acres of bordering vegetated wetlands and 176 linear feet of a stream, much of which is on town-owned, conservation restricted land.
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Wastequip introduces roll-off container covers Monday, October 13, 2014 06:37:23 PM
Waste Management to acquire Deffenbaugh Disposal Monday, October 13, 2014 02:28:35 PM
Two new Caesars developments receive LEED certifications Saturday, October 11, 2014 12:04:22 AM
Armstrong Equipment named Terex MPS dealer Friday, October 10, 2014 02:48:57 PM
NDA members test drive new Volvo demolition equipment Friday, October 10, 2014 02:48:43 PM
Genesis names national sales manager Friday, October 10, 2014 02:48:32 PM
EPA seeks removal of former scrap yard from Superfund list Wednesday, October 08, 2014 01:12:20 PM
Republic Services acquires Rainbow Disposal Wednesday, October 08, 2014 11:38:14 AM
GBB adds to staff Monday, October 06, 2014 04:13:54 PM
British recycler uses Sennebogen 818 Elektro for drywall recycling Monday, October 06, 2014 03:24:06 PM
BHS launches new website Monday, October 06, 2014 01:30:58 PM
OSHA extends compliance date for crane operator certification requirements Friday, October 03, 2014 09:17:37 AM
EPA awards small business grant to OCC building products producer Friday, October 03, 2014 09:17:35 AM
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(Source: heymonster)
My name is Malfoy. Draco Malfoy."For the first five films, Draco was a one-dimensional bully, the kind you get in private schools. But I think that's been changing over the years, gradually. You've seen him start to doubt his dad, see his father as not quite the great influence he once was. Unfortunately, Draco's hands are kind of tied — he doesn't have that much of a choice as to what he can do.But he does have options presented. You see glimpses of redemption there," — Tom Felton.
(Source: thenerdcrew)
nice slide tackle at the end
(Source: chicaries)
Whoa. MARCHING BAND DINOSAUR GIF!
to right
I waited for this.
12 years?
/confirming nod/
in azkaban
(Source: quaffle-chasers)