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In the year since the Supreme Court struck down state-level same-sex marriage bans, anti-gay extremists have continued to peddle misinformation about LGBT equality in the media. After more than 12 years of pushing lies and wildly inaccurate predictions about the consequences of marriage equality, it's time for the media to stop letting anti-gay activists comment on LGBT rights without disclosing their proven track record of dishonest extremism.
It's been a year since the Supreme Court's June 26, 2015, Obergefell v. Hodges decision which found state-level same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional. In the decade leading up to the decision, anti-LGBT extremists and hate group leaders peddled specious talking points about the consequences of "redefining traditional marriage." In media appearances, these figures predicted that allowing same-sex couples to marry would cause a "slippery slope" to legalized bestiality, incest, and pedophilia; pushed the myth that gay men are more likely to engage in pedophilia than straight men; and hyped claims that pastors and churches were in danger of being forced to perform same-sex marriages.
Several of these groups were so deceptive that in 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), designated them anti-LGBT "hate groups" for "propagating known falsehoods" and pushing "demonizing propaganda." One of these groups was the Family Research Council (FRC), whose officials have accused gay people of trying to "recruit" children into homosexuality and endorsed a Uganda law that would have imposed the death penalty for engaging in gay sex.
For years, major cable news networks have hosted FRC representatives to comment on LGBT equality without identifying FRC as a hate group. Despite the efforts of progressive Christians to stop outlets from letting FRC representatives conflate their extremism with mainstream Christianity, the group continues to have a significant media presence. Since last June's Obergefell decision, mainstream media outlets have continued to call on FRC to discuss LGBT rights, including:
In the past year, the media have given other anti-LGBT hate groups similar passes. In September, mainstream news outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters failed to identify Liberty Counsel, the anti-LGBT hate group representing Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, instead calling it merely a "Christian" or "conservative" organization. In April, major news outlets largely failed to identify the American Family Association (AFA) -- the group organizing a boycott of Target over its transgender-inclusive restroom policy -- as an anti-LGBT hate group.
The few instances when mainstream media like The Associated Press and CBS News' Bob Schieffer did properly identify hate group leaders, anti-gay conservatives were predictably outraged. Right-wing anger at journalists who expose anti-LGBT extremism illustrates why it's so vital to disclose when sources or commentators represent hate groups. The public has a right to know that the same groups with a track record of fearmongering about children's safety to oppose marriage equality are now those peddling the anti-LGBT movement's new favorite myth that LGBT nondiscrimination protections endanger the safety of women and children in bathrooms.
A year after Obergefell, it's time for the media to stop letting the same extremists use media appearances to float new lies and recycle mythical talking points to oppose LGBT equality. Outlets seeking to provide balanced coverage of LGBT rights ought to find commentators who don't have a decade-long track record of spreading hateful lies about LGBT people.
While reporting on the Supreme Court deadlock on President Obama's executive action on immigration, media should make note of its negative impact on millions of workers and families, as Univision and NPR have done in their past reporting on the case.
On June 23, a 4-4 Supreme Court split affirmed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's decision to block implementation of the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA). This exercise of "prosecutorial discretion" would have given temporary relief from deportation to close to 3.7 million people, bringing the undocumented parents of American citizens or permanent residents out of the shadows and making them eligible for work authorization. The decision also affects an expansion of President Obama's 2012 executive action Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
According to immigration attorney and CNN opinion columnist David Leopold, who speculated about the outcome of the case back in April, the tie could lead to "three levels of profound chaos":
A 4–4 split in U.S. v Texas, for example, would result in three levels of profound chaos ensuing. A 4–4 split on the Supreme Court would: provide a green light to Republican-controlled states — not the federal government — to determine the nation's immigration enforcement policy — contradicting the Court's major precedent in the process; open the door to a myriad of politically-charged lawsuits that states would be newly empowered to bring against sitting presidents; and raise questions about whether the injunction placed on the deportation deferral guidance, known as DAPA and DACA+, should continue to apply across country, ultimately leading to a patchwork of confusing immigration enforcement regimes in different states and regions of the U.S.
The impacts, however, are also deeply personal to immigrant families, particularly to the Latino community. A Univision segment on June 15's Univision's Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna highlighted the stories of some of those who benefited under the 2012 DACA executive action and explained that over 3.5 million people could be negatively impacted if the president's 2014 executive action failed at the Supreme Court:
The American Immigration Council explained in April that a Supreme Court tie would be harmful to the economy, as individuals who would have benefited from the programs would no longer be able to contribute by earning "an additional $7.1 billion ... in income" or by generating additional tax revenue.
Most importantly, media should contextualize the case by reporting that the success of this executive action would have kept families together, protecting children whose parents are at risk of deportation from psychological harm, an issue exemplified in a June 22 NPR report:
KELLY MCEVERS (HOST): For many families, there is a lot riding on a case that's now before the Supreme Court. It's about President Obama's executive order known as Deferred Actions for Parents of Americans. It could shield millions of people who are here illegally from deportation. There's growing research that shows when a parent is arrested by immigration authorities, it can have a big impact on a child's mental and physical health. Adrian Florido of Code Switch brings us one family's story.
ADRIAN FLORIDO, BYLINE: The Diaz family lives in a squat, pink apartment building in Miami's Little Havana. Early one morning three years ago, Dad, Jose, was arrested just as he left for work. When Mom, Marcela, and her 8-year-old son, Bryan, went outside, they saw Jose's truck idling in the driveway, its door open. A white van with tinted windows was blocking its exit, and they realized Jose was inside. As the school bus pulled up, Bryan started crying.
WENDY CERVANTES: Inability to sleep at night, a lot of anxiousness, behavioral problems, low academic performance.
FLORIDO: This is Wendy Cervantes of the children's advocacy group First Focus.
CERVANTES: But it's also - obviously the mental health impact becomes even greater when a child actually witnesses a parent being arrested or loses a parent as a result of deportation or detention.
FLORIDO: Lili Farhang directs Oakland-based Human Impact Partners, which has tried to quantify the effects. Her group estimates that in 2012, for example, up to 100,000 kids had shown signs of withdrawal after a parent's detention or deportation. She says this is only a fraction of the children at risk.
LILI FARHANG: You have 4 million kids, you know, who can face having a parent be deported and you have to wonder what are the long-term effects for this population of children?
A report from NPR's news program All Things Considered on the federal appeals court decision upholding federal rules on net neutrality gave false equivalence to critics' claims that net neutrality would "stifle innovation," even though numerous tech experts and telecom companies have said the opposite. Tech experts have said net neutrality not only promotes competition, but that it also has been the guiding principle behind internet innovation since its inception.
The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, in a June 14 decision upheld regulations from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) classifying the internet as an essential utility that "should be available to all Americans" like telephone services, "rather than a luxury that does not need close government supervision." The ruling maintains FCC authority to curb potential abuses and to prevent internet providers from blocking or slowing down certain websites while favoring others.
In a report that same day, NPR All Things Considered co-host Kelly McEvers and NPR tech blogger Alina Selyukh engaged in a false equivalency, providing a platform for the views of net neutrality critics while leaving out certain facts. McEvers said, "Critics like Texas Senator Ted Cruz have called the rules Obamacare for the internet," and Selyukh detailed the telecom industry's argument that the FCC rules will "stifle innovation, and it will stop them from investing in these really important networks":
KELLY MCEVERS (HOST): A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., sided with the Obama administration today on its so-called net neutrality rules. They require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally. Critics like Texas Senator Ted Cruz have called the rules "Obamacare for the internet." NPR's tech blogger, Alina Selyukh, has been following the story and she's with us now.
OK, so what were the arguments in court in this case?
ALINA SELYUKH: Well, as you can imagine, the telecom industry did not like this expansion of authority. Telecom, wireless, cable associations, and then AT&T, CenturyLink and a bunch of smaller broadband providers sued the FCC, arguing that it overstepped its authority. And one of the major arguments they make is that this approach is so outdated that it will stifle innovation and it will stop them from investing in these really important networks.
But neither McEvers nor Selyukh acknowledged that the prevailing opinion is that these arguments are false. Tech experts have called net neutrality the guiding principle that has made the internet successful, Google's director of communications has said the net neutrality rules would promote competition and help the economy, and the National Bureau of Economic Research reported that "there is unlikely to be any negative impact from such regulation on [internet service provider] investment." Furthermore, numerous telecom companies in 2014 told their investors they would continue to improve their networks even under the FCC regulations.
With Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan slated to release a new proposal to "reform" American anti-poverty programs on June 7, media should be aware of his long history of promoting "far-right" and "backward-looking" policies that would enact draconian cuts to vital programs for families in need and actually "exacerbate poverty, inequality, and wage stagnation."
Media figures criticized Fox News host Megyn Kelly for her "fluff" interview with Donald Trump during her Fox Broadcasting special, Megyn Kelly Presents.
NPR hosted a spokesperson from an extremist anti-LGBT legal group to react to the Obama administration's recent guidance related to transgender students in public schools. NPR failed to identify the group, Alliance Defending Freedom, as anything other than a "faith-based legal group," and allowed the spokesperson to spread anti-LGBT misinformation.
On May 12, The New York Times reported that the Obama administration planned to announce guidance directing all public schools to provide transgender students with access to sex-segregated facilities, such as restrooms and locker rooms, that are consistent with a student's gender identity. On May 13, NPR's national Morning Edition hosted attorney Matt Sharp from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) to provide "reaction" to the guidance.
NPR described ADF as a "faith-based legal group" and as the legal powerhouse leading the national fight against transgender student rights. But host David Greene did not mention ADF's well-documented history of anti-LGBT extremism.
ADF is a nonprofit with a $43-million-a-year budget that bills itself as working for the "right of people to freely live out their faith." Much of ADF's "religious freedom" work, however, has consisted of anti-LGBT activism, including labeling the hate crime that led to the murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard a hoax aimed at advancing the "homosexual agenda"; working internationally to criminalize gay sex; and creating its own "Day of Truth" to combat the "Day of Silence" -- a day meant to honor LGBT victims of bullying, harassment, and violence.
On Morning Edition, NPR allowed ADF attorney Sharp to spread misinformation about transgender people typical of anti-LGBT extremists. During the segment, Sharp repeatedly misgendered transgender girls, saying the directive allows "boys" into girls' restrooms. Letting Sharp misgender transgender people isn't just wrong -- it also helps spread the harmful anti-LGBT "bathroom predator" myth that legal protections for transgender people will cause men to sneak into women's bathrooms and commit sexual assault. When media outlets have previously failed to debunk the rallying cry of "no men in women's bathrooms," anti-LGBT extremists were successful in defeating nondiscrimination ordinances.
NPR also allowed ADF to spread misinformation about the legal basis of the Obama administration's directive, letting Sharp say that Title IX has "never been interpreted to include gender identity." In fact, the Fourth Circuit, Sixth Circuit, and the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission have all ruled that Title IX's protections on the basis of sex include gender identity.
NPR's ombudsman has previously acknowledged that the media organization needs to "do a better job" of identifying anti-LGBT extremists. The NPR segment did feature Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, but only in a pre-recorded 15-second clip. ADF spokesperson Matt Sharp spoke largely uninterrupted for over 4 minutes. From NPR:
DAVID GREENE (Host): A letter is going out later today from the Obama administration to every school district in the country. It says schools must allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. This move was quickly welcomed by Mara Keisling -- she's the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. She says she hopes that parents can set their biases aside as the new rules are implemented.
MARA KEISLING: There's all sorts of kinds of kids that other people's parents don't feel comfortable with. And that's not how we decide who gets to learn safely in schools. All children get to learn safely in schools.
GREENE: And let's hear another voice now. It's Matt Sharp, he's an attorney with the faith-based legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which has opposed similar policies in public schools across the country. Mr. Sharp, good morning.
MATT SHARP: Thank you for having me.
GREENE: Well thanks for coming on the program, we appreciate it. Let me just ask you, I mean, the administration, this letter going out this morning, the real foundation of it is this federal law called Title IX that prohibits sex discrimination in schools. And the administration is saying this protects transgender people based on their gender identity. Tell me your reaction to that reading of the law.
SHARP: Well, it's completely wrong. For over 40 years now, Congress and courts that have looked at Title IX have all consistently said Title IX was meant to combat sex discrimination. It's never been interpreted to include gender identity, and so the idea was always to ensure equal opportunities for men and women. Importantly, Title IX was specifically written to protect student privacy. It allows schools to have separate restrooms and locker rooms and dormitories on the basis of sex. So what the Obama administration is doing here is essentially rewriting the law, ignoring Congress, ignoring the normal process they're supposed to go through to force their agenda on schools across the country.
GREENE: Well what would you tell a family with a transgender child who identifies as a girl or a boy and believes that their girl or boy is going to school and deserves those protections under Title IX and believes very much in what the Obama administration is doing and wants their child to be protected and not discriminated against?
SHARP: Well their child should absolutely be protected against bullying, harassment or anything else. And we've seen schools across the country do a great job of protecting every student under their care. But part of protection is also protecting the right of privacy. And so we're hearing from lots of students across the country and parents saying this violates our right to privacy when we're forced to share locker rooms, showers, and restrooms with someone of the opposite sex. And so that's actually what motivated I think over 130 parents and students in Chicago to actually sue the federal government because they came in and forced the school to open up their restrooms and locker rooms to the opposite sex.
GREENE: Can you understand though, that the families and parents of a transgender child who believes this is a delicate situation but that the rights of their child might be more important than sort of another child to sort of get used to a situation that he or she might find a little sensitive in a bathroom.
SHARP: Well, but it's not about one student's rights being more important than another. It's about protecting every student's rights to privacy. And so what we've seen schools do is offer accommodations to any student, including transgender students, that are not comfortable with communal restrooms, allowing them to use single-stall restrooms or what's ever available, so that they've got a choice. But they also have a duty to protect every other student's constitutional right to privacy, when the courts across the country have recognized is implicated when you have got restrooms and locker rooms, and why Title IX was drafted the way it is. So schools have to protect that. And what they're trying to do is make sure that every student has a place where they can use the restroom, change and shower, and feel comfortable, without having to break down our traditions of having separate restrooms on the basis of biological sex.
GREENE: Let me just ask you, you're representing 51 families in a school district in Illinois, which allows students to use bathrooms according to gender identity. And these families are fighting that policy. Can you tell me the story of just maybe one family and exactly, on a personal level, what they're objecting to?
SHARP: Absolutely. And so we've got several families there that the Obama administration came in and forced the district 211 to allow a biological boy to the female's restrooms. So these girls are telling stories about how when they're in the locker room changing for PE, they're now uncomfortable knowing that a boy can walk in at any time under the school's new policy. They talk about how one girl in particular does not change out of her gym clothes but rather wears them all day long, wears them after going to gym after getting them dirty and nasty through PE class, and then just puts her clothes on top of it, because she's so nervous about the possibility of having to change and shower and whatnot in front of this boy. And we hear stories like that across the country of these girls speaking out and saying, "Look, we don't want this student to be bullied or harassed or anything. But we also just want our privacy protected. And we just want to know that when we go into these lockers and shower rooms, that we're not going to be forced to share it with someone of the opposite biological sex." That's all these girls are asking for.
GREENE: Matt Sharp is an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, a faith-based legal advocacy group.
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Hispanic media and Latino journalists reacted to the news that Donald Trump is the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee by noting that Trump's anti-immigrant vitriol has made it extremely challenging for the businessman to get the Latino vote he needs in the general election.
The American Family Association Has Been Designated An Anti-LGBT "Hate Group" By The SPLC
Major news outlets have largely failed to identify the American Family Association (AFA) -- the group organizing a boycott of Target over its transgender inclusive restroom policy -- as an anti-LGBT "hate group," often only referring to the group as a "Christian" or "conservative" organization.
NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday hosted an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) to discuss two recently passed anti-LGBT laws in North Carolina and Mississippi. NPR did not disclose ADF's history of extreme anti-LGBT legal work or push back against the group's mischaracterization of protections for transgender people.
On the April 10 edition of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, host Rachel Martin invited ADF attorney Matt Sharp to discuss the passage of state anti-LGBT legislation, including a North Carolina law that repealed the city of Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance protecting LGBT people.
Martin described ADF as "an organization that backs religious freedom laws," but didn't mention the group's history of anti-LGBT extremism, including promoting the criminalization of homosexuality and describing the anti-gay murder of Matthew Shepard as a hoax.
During the segment, Sharp falsely claimed that the North Carolina law was passed to repeal ordinances that would allow "men to use the same restrooms as girls and women." In reality, Charlotte's ordinance did not allow "men" to use women's bathrooms but rather allowed transgender people to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. Martin failed to push back against this mischaracterization, responding only that in women's bathrooms around the world "there is no exposure to anyone's biological anatomy" because of bathroom stalls:
RACHEL MARTIN (HOST): Can you explain what has been happening in North Carolina that you believe made this bill necessary?
MATT SHARP: The primary motivation was the city of Charlotte passing an ordinance that would have allowed, in all businesses and public schools and other facilities, men to use the same restrooms as girls and women. That's violating their right to privacy. And so the North Carolina legislature and governor, seeing this and the impact this was going to have, took steps to reverse this and to make sure that across the state no individual would ever have to give up their right to privacy and be forced to share the same facilities as someone of the opposite sex.
MARTIN: And I'm sorry to get into things that are so intimate, but it's an intimate law about very private issues. When you're going into a woman's bathroom, everywhere around the world, you go into stalls. So there is no exposure to anyone's biological anatomy.
Sharp continued to provide misinformation, falsely claiming that Mississippi's new "religious freedom" law, which has been called the "most sweeping anti-LGBT" legislation in the U.S., is "in no way ... meant to allow the LGBT community to be denied goods and services." In fact, the bill does allow the denial of goods and services, as well as allowing medical professionals to refuse necessary treatment for LGBT people and employers to establish sex-specific standards regarding dress and bathroom use. The bill also allows state employees to refuse to provide services involved in "authorizing or licensing legal marriages."
This isn't the first time NPR has given an uncritical platform to an anti-LGBT extremist. In December, NPR's Diane Rehm admitted that her program had erred in failing to properly identify an anti-gay hate group fellow from the Family Research Council, saying, "We have to do a better job of being more careful about identification."
NPR's Peter Overby highlighted new analysis from Public Citizen pointing out that presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle "have raised a combined total of around $1 billion," but that out of 1,000 debate questions and 21 debates so far in this campaign, only 15 questions related to political money have been asked and none addressed "candidates' views of the system or ways they would change it."
Despite polls showing Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the post-Citizens United campaign finance landscape, most news outlets still provide little coverage of the current impact of money in politics and possibilities for campaign finance reform. A lack of questions on campaign finance reflect a larger trend of debate moderators not asking about substantive issues or policies, such as the impact of -- or plans to combat -- climate change.
In an April 8 article, Overby quotes Public Citizen's Congress Watch director Lisa Gilbert saying, "There's a disconnect between voters and the media, who are not paying attention to something that's front-and-center for most Americans as never before. They're unwilling to press the candidates on solutions":
The politicians who would be president have a lot to say about money, at least when they're soliciting it.
They and their sidekick superPACs have raised a combined total of around $1 billion, according to NPR calculations from data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
But when it's time for a TV debate, the candidates aren't so eager to expound on their fundraising, the big donors they court for superPACs, or the legal rulings that give the wealthy more avenues for giving.
A new analysis by the liberal advocacy group Public Citizen finds that Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump accounted for 92 percent of all commentary about political money and special interests in the 21 presidential primary debates through March 24.
The analysis, called The Elephant in the Room, also found that Sanders, Clinton and Trump were also the only candidates to talk about repairing a campaign finance system that has unexpectedly become a flashpoint for voter anger in this election cycle.
Public Citizen criticizes the debate questioners. In the 21 debates, they asked about political money in 15 of more than 1,000 questions. The analysis found no questions on candidates' views of the system or ways they would change it.
Lisa Gilbert, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch, said she was surprised that the candidates and questioners made only 13 mentions of Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that has come to represent the surge in big-dollar politics.
"There's a disconnect between voters and the media, who are not paying attention to something that's front-and-center for most Americans as never before," she said. "They're unwilling to press the candidates on solutions."
Republican lawyer Miguel Estrada dismissed the claims from discredited right-wing organization Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) that Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland's judicial record indicates a "bias against Second Amendment rights."
In a March 27 NPR story that refuted activists' criticisms of Garland's judicial record, Estrada -- who was nominated by President George W. Bush to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia -- explained that "the evidence that is being cited for the accusation that Judge Garland has some bias against Second Amendment rights is from thin to non-existent."
The "evidence" dismissed by Estrada as "thin to non-existent" originated from the Judicial Crisis Network, which has been making this false charge against Garland since March 11, before he was nominated by President Obama, claiming that Garland's vote to rehear a 2007 case on handgun restrictions indicates he "has a very liberal view on gun rights."
However, Garland was joined in his vote by the very conservative Judge A. Raymond Randolph, and legal scholars have explained that reading anti-gun bias in this vote by Garland is a "dangerous" assumption.
As Estrada explained to NPR, voting to rehear a case does not indicate a judge's view of the merits of the case, but rather "the rules say that the full court may wish to rehear the case itself when the case raises a question, and I quote, 'of exceptional importance.'"
Like several journalists who cover the courts and legal issued for national media outlets, Estrada dismissed the evidence presented by the JCN that Garland is anti-gun:
[C]onservative activists see Garland's record as tilting distinctly to the left. The Judicial Crisis Network has already spent $4 million on TV and radio advertisements in 10 states insisting that he "would be the tie-breaking vote for Obama's big government liberalism."
Proving some of these assertions, however, can be difficult.
"The evidence that is being cited for the accusation that Judge Garland has some bias against Second Amendment rights is from thin to non-existent," says Miguel Estrada, a conservative Republican lawyer whose own nomination to the D.C. Circuit was stalled by Democrats during the George W. Bush administration.
Estrada notes that the charge that Garland is hostile to gun rights stems from a case challenging the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. In 2007, a three-judge panel -- not including Garland -- ruled for the first time that there is a constitutional right to own guns for self-defense. Afterward, Garland was one of four judges, including a conservative Reagan appointee, who voted for the full court to rehear the case.
Estrada explains that "the rules say that the full court may wish to rehear the case itself when the case raises a question, and I quote, 'of exceptional importance.' "
The gun rights case certainly was of exceptional importance, he said, since no court of appeals had ever before ruled that there was an individual right to own a gun. Ultimately, Estrada notes, the Supreme Court, too, thought the case was of exceptional importance, since it agreed to review the lower court decision and, in a landmark opinion, sustained it.
On March 16, President Obama announced his nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Before the nomination, Media Matters explained how right-wing media would respond: by following their deceptive conservative playbook against the nominee, regardless of who it was. And that's exactly what they did. Right-wing media resurrected the same tired tactics they've used before to oppose Obama's judicial nominees -- distorting the nominee's record to push alarmist rhetoric, purposefully taking past statements out of context, and lobbing attacks based on the nominee's race, gender, or religion. In the last week, we've already seen many of these plays put into action, with conservative media predictably propping up dishonest talking points and false claims dedicated to obstruction.
The discredited conservative group Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) -- known as the Judicial Confirmation Network during the Bush administration, but now committed to opposing Obama judicial nominations -- has led the way in fearmongering around "one more liberal justice," attempting to re-cast Garland's record as that of an anti-gun, job-killing judicial extremist.
JCN began its misinformation campaign well before Garland's March 16 nomination, pushing myths about the records of several potential nominees at the National Review's Bench Memos legal blog, in press statements and attack ads, and in media appearances by JCN chief counsel Carrie Severino. On March 11, Severino authored a post on the Bench Memos blog attempting to smear Garland as "very liberal on gun rights" by grossly distorting actions he took on two cases pulled from his nearly two decades of judicial service, one of which did not even concern the Second Amendment. Severino cited Garland's 2007 vote to rehear a case on D.C.'s handgun ban and his 2000 ruling in a case related to the national background check system for gun purchases to draw this baseless conclusion. But she failed to note crucial context -- voting to rehear a case in what's called an en banc review does not indicate how a judge might theoretically rule, and in both cases, Garland either acted in agreement with colleagues or other courts across the ideological spectrum. Veteran Supreme Court reporters and numerous legal experts quickly and summarily debunked these misleading claims, but other right-wing outlets have further distorted them, and JCN has pushed the myths in subsequent attack ads and media appearances.
Following Garland's formal nomination, JCN released a series of "topline points" outlining its opposition, further misrepresenting Garland's guns record to falsely suggest he had "voted to uphold" D.C.'s handgun ban and "demonstrated a remarkable level of hostility to the Second Amendment," as well as contending Garland was "the sole dissenter in a 2002 case striking down an illegal, job-killing EPA regulation." Like its earlier attacks on Garland's supposedly "very liberal" guns record, JCN's newer claims about Garland's ruling in the 2002 EPA case also grossly distorted the facts.
Some mainstream outlets have uncritically echoed JCN's debunked "topline points" and attack ads on Garland's record, and these reports -- in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and on National Public Radio -- lend an air of undeserved legitimacy to the group's misinformation campaign against Garland.
National Review's Supreme Court coverage to date has continued its tradition of injecting context-free talking points into mainstream reporting on the nominee. Its legal blog, Bench Memos, has served as a testing ground for new smears against Garland, hosting several misinformation-filled posts from JCN's Severino that eventually made their way into mainstream reporting and broadcast coverage. In giving space for JCN and other right-wing legal pundits like contributor Ed Whelan to distort Garland's record, Bench Memos quickly made it clear that a lack of evidence is no reason to avoid making sweeping claims about the nominee.
Before Garland was nominated, National Review featured posts from both Severino and Whelan that attempted to smear several potential nominees. On March 7, Whelan questioned the intelligence of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson absent any evidence to suggest the accomplished federal judge was anything but qualified. That same day, Severino attempted to smear Judge Jane Kelly for fulfilling her constitutional duty of providing legal representation for an unsavory client while working as a public defender. In subsequent posts, Severino attacked Judges Sri Srinivasan and Paul Watford in a series aimed to undermine their reputations as "moderates" by misrepresenting a handful of their past decisions as "extremist."
Attacks on Garland, too, began before the March 16 nomination announcement; Severino's March 11 post on Bench Memos first floated what have since become widespread and false conservative talking points on Garland's record on guns. In the post, Severino claimed that Garland's vote to rehear a 2007 case related to the D.C. handgun ban and his joining of a ruling in a 2000 case related to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System for gun purchases together indicated "a very liberal approach" to the Second Amendment and a desire to overturn the 2008 Heller Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment. These attacks, which legal experts quickly and repeatedly debunked, continue to pervade media coverage of opposition to Garland's nomination.
Fox News figures have predictably latched onto conservative talking points to oppose Garland, broadcasting already debunked claims about Garland's record.
On March 16, Bret Baier, host of Fox's Special Report With Bret Baier, claimed in an interview with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest that Garland "opposed Justice Scalia's take on the Second Amendment in the Heller case," misrepresenting both Garland's 2007 vote to rehear the D.C. handgun case and the case's relationship to a Supreme Court decision issued the following year. On Fox's The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly further distorted JCN's talking point, incorrectly stating that Garland had "voted to keep the guns away" from private citizens in D.C., another claim about the Supreme Court nominee that PolitiFact labeled false.
As Media Matters warned, the National Rifle Association (NRA) quickly began pushing these right-wing media claims to justify its involvement in obstruction efforts and to fearmonger about Garland.
Immediately following Garland's nomination on March 16, the NRA declared him "bad on guns." In a series of tweets reacting to the nomination, the NRA linked to the debunked March 11 Severino post on Bench Memos to claim that Garland would "vote to reverse" the Heller decision, and a Washington Times article pushing the same discredited claims with quotes from Severino, a spokesperson from the opposition research group America Rising Squared, and the extremist group Gun Owners of America.
Later that day, the NRA formally announced its opposition to Garland's nomination. The move predictably mirrored the NRA's efforts to distort Sonia Sotomayor's record and to launch an unprecedented and largely ineffective ploy to threaten senators' records over their votes to confirm Sotomayor to the Supreme Court in 2009. Days later, the executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action explained the group's opposition in an op-ed in The Washington Post, regurgitating JCN's dishonest claims about Garland's 2007 en banc vote in the Parker case to fearmonger about the moderate judge.
The NRA's opposition to Garland helped elevate JCN's long-debunked talking points on Garland all the way to Senate Republicans leading the obstruction efforts. In a March 20 appearance on Fox News Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) explicitly cited the NRA's opposition to Garland as a sticking point for ongoing Senate obstruction, explaining that he "can't imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame duck session, a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association."


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China's president pressed a charm offensive with Latin America on Thursday, signing deals with Brazil and meeting with regional leaders in a trip highlighting Beijing's bid to compete with the United States.
President Xi Jinping was greeted with a military honor guard by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff before overseeing the signing of a raft of agreements during a state visit.
Chinese companies agreed to buy 60 Brazilian Embraer E190 passenger airplanes worth a total of $3.2 billion.
The two countries also reached agreements to cooperate in railway projects and shipping that could facilitate Brazilian exports to resource-hungry China.
The Asian giant's import-export bank will loan $5 billion over three years to Brazilian mining powerhouse Vale so that the company, which ships iron ore to China, can buy or rent vessels.
The two nations signed a cooperation agreement for railway projects, with Rousseff saying she hopes China will help Brazil build tracks linking her continent-sized country to Peru's Pacific coast.
Xi and Rousseff, whose nations marked 40 years of diplomatic relations, then launched the Portuguese-language version of China's Baidu Internet search engine.
"Our relations, which represent a truly strategic partnership, are developing at an unprecedented speed in diverse areas of cooperation," Rousseff said.
Xi said China aims to "strengthen our strategy to create an even more prosperous future for our nations."
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Xi arrived in Brazil this week for a summit of the BRICS group of emerging powers -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- and South American presidents.
The visit is Xi's second to Latin America since taking office last year, when he toured Mexico, Costa Rica and Trinidad and Tobago.
This week, the BRICS agreed to launch a New Development Bank to fund infrastructure projects in developing nations and an emergency reserve, drawing praise from South American presidents who see them as alternatives to Western-dominated financial institutions.
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With the visit, Xi is presenting China as an alternative to the United States in the region, analysts said.
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China's massive purchases of commodities and exports of manufactured goods to the region have boosted its two-way trade with Latin America to a total of $261.6 billion last year, according to China's customs.
The world's second largest economy has overtaken the United States as Brazil's top trade partner, with bilateral trade reaching $83.3 billion last year, compared to around $4 billion in 2002.
China's government says it wants to invest more in the region, including in energy and infrastructure projects.
In October, a multinational consortium with Chinese participation won rights to develop Brazil's biggest oilfield.
For its part, Brazil wants to diversify exports to China that are dominated by iron ore, soybean and oil. In a boost to Brazil, China lifted a ban on beef from the South American nation.
After Brazil, Xi will head to Argentina, a key source of soybeans for China, before visiting oil-supplier Venezuela and communist ally Cuba.
Despite China's growing investments in the region, it will be hard for Beijing to dislodge the United States in Latin America, said Yun Sun, East Asia expert at the Washington-based Stimson Center think-tank.
"US-Latin America long-standing, traditional ties will not be easily affected by the Chinese political and economic engagements, which are more recent and less comprehensive than US-Latin American relations," she told AFP.


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An official or authoritative instruction: moral and ethical directives
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RUSSELL - Arthur Rudolph Koch, 84, of Russell, died on Aug. 14, 2012 at the Hays Medical Center.
GREAT BEND - Muriel Belcher, 78, died Aug. 14, 2012 at her home in Great Bend.
TIMKEN - Jeanette Holopirek, 27, died Aug. 13 at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. She was born June 22, 1985 at Great Bend, the daughter of Terry and Alice (Penka) Holopirek. She was a longtime resident of Timken. Ms. Holopirek was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Timken and a 2003 Otis-Bison High School graduate. She was active in Rush County 4-H.
LYONS - Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kennedy, 93, died Aug. 14 at Sunflower Estates, Lyons. She was born Sept. 6, 1918 in Guthrie Okla. the daughter of Carl and Hazel Del (Smith Madden). She lived in Lyons since 1940 and is the former owner of Porter Abstract of Lyons.
HOLYROOD - Vernon K. Bednasek, 85, died Aug. 14 in Salina. Born June 8, 1927 in Ellsworth County, he was the son of John and Rose A. (Borecky) Bednasek. A lifetime resident of the Holyrood area, he was a retired farmer and stockman. On May 20, 1956, he married Alice Wachs in Ellsworth. She survives.
EUREKA - Junior Raymond Watts, of Eureka, died at his residence on Aug. 13, at the age of 84. Born in Quincy on Feb. 3, 1928, he was the son of Charlie Otho and Ruby Marie (Crouch) Watts. Junior was raised in Quincy and attended school there. After his schooling, he went to work in the oil fields as a truck driver. His truck driving nickname was "Big Iron." He retired in 1990, due to poor health.
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ST. JOHN - Kenneth T. Siebert, 85, died Aug. 11 at South Wind Hospice House in Pratt. Born June 14, 1927 in rural Pawnee County, he was the son of Theodore R. and Mildred (Kerns) Siebert. A graduate of Radium High School and life-long resident of St. John, he was owner of Siebert Automotive since 1969. On June 12, 1951, he married Mildred M. (Steiner) at Great Bend. She survives.
MEDICINE LODGE - Gerald "Jerry" Willms, 48, died Aug. 12 at his home in Medicine Lodge. Born on Dec. 4, 1963 in Great Bend, he was the son of Dan and Connie (Ginest) Willms. On Dec. 6, 2008 he married Tammy L. Bishop at Medicine Lodge. She survives.
HOISINGTON - Frances G. (Berger) Ellington, 86, died Aug. 12 at Russell Regional Hospital. Born April 14, 1926 at Blanchard, Mich., she was the daughter of Clinton F. and Lucy Viola (DeGroat) Smalley.
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ST. JOHN – Kenneth T. Siebert, 85, died Aug. 11, 2012 at Hospice House, Pratt.
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Israeli, E. and Kahanov, Y. (2014), The 7th–9th Century Tantura E Shipwreck, Israel: construction and reconstruction. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 43: 369–388. doi: 10.1111/1095-9270.12056
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All Rise...
Judge Roman Martel learned long ago—if you meet a gun slinging school girl in a dark alley, back away nice and slow.
Editor's Note
Our review of Corpse Princess: Part Two, published October 15th, 2010, is also available.
The Charge
Ah, sweet anime, the only place you can see a purple haired school girl blow away an undead menace with uzis.
The Case
I've been out of the anime loop for a number of years and its nice to see that some things haven't changed: rampaging monsters can only be destroyed by schoolgirls in short skirts. Sailor Moon's legacy lives on.
Of course each anime has to have its own spin on things and Corpse Princess is no different. In this series, when a person dies obsessing about a regret they may come back to life as a undead monster called a shikabane. These creatures have supernatural powers and can not be killed by ordinary means. It takes a deadly shikabane hime, or corpse princess, to do the job. These gals are also undead and have powers of their own. The shikabane hime targets the monsters brain using the most destructive weapons she can find. Our lead Makina Hoshimura uses a pair of uzis and her short skirt. Allied with them are contracted monks. These gents have their own powers including healing the shikabane hime if their dead bodies get too thrashed. The monks are bonded to the hime, so if the contracted monk is killed the hime herself dies or, worse, turns into an undead monster.
What follows is tale of three characters. Ouri Kagami is our normal kid who gets sucked into the situation. When we meet him he's leaving the only home he's ever known, a boarding house for orphans run by a monk. This monk is Keisei Tagami. He has been looking out for Ouri since he was small and treats him like a little brother. Unknown to Ouri, Keisei is a contracted monk. He is bonded to the deadly Makina Hoshimura. She's a no nonsense type with a quick trigger finger and bad attitude.
The first four episodes had me a little worried. They follow the monster of the week formula as some shikabane appears, causing Makina and Keisei to spring into action. Somehow Ouri just happens to appear at the battle sites and gets pulled into the danger. Once the fifth episode kicks in, we get into the story proper about a traitorous monk who is creating his own shikabane and will stop at nothing to destroy all the shikabane hime and their monks. I'm actually leaving out a lot of little details here that flesh out the characters and the world. There are two orders of monks and their internal politics, a group of deadly shikabane called The Seven Stars who may are linked to Makina's past and the ghostly black cat that can only be seen and heard by Ouri.
The animation has plenty of fan service for admirers of female anime characters. In addition you get some well animated action scenes revolving around Makina, her uzis and acrobatics. The finale of this season has some above average animation for the battles and it works well. The series also goes for some solid mood setting, with darkness creeping into the blood soaked action. This is a gory anime. While it is inspired by horror, it is never really scary. It's more of your typical action adventure series, with corpses and ghosts instead of space pirates or samurai. The music is atmospheric and supports the series well. The opening and ending credits are catchy in that J-pop/rock kinda way.
While the story didn't have many twists that surprised me, I had a good time with it. The characters were fun, and there were some good lines. The action was fast paced, and there was a sprinkling of humor to keep things from getting too grim. While there is some brutal stuff in this show, it's not dwelled upon. This goes for visceral thrills and action, not horror and dread. I'm curious to see where the second half leads, as we get a traumatic death to end this section and a set up for a new beginning. Looks like this series could get really good. Just be warned that the finale happens in the 12th episode. The 13th is a recap episode.
I enjoyed the English dub. They actors did a good job with Makina (Luci Christian) really embodying the anger and toughness of the character. The English dub is also in 5.1 and with Makina's uzis getting some serious umph when she's blowing away monsters. The Japanese dub is in 2.0 stereo and lacks the punch of the English track, but its nice to have both. Subtitles were easy to read and clear.
You get our standard set of anime extras like textless openings and endings, trailers. But there is also a commentary track by the director of the english version Terri Doty, Aaron Dismuke who plays Ouri, and Luci Christian who plays Makina for the penultimate episode. It's a lighthearted commentary with all the participants joking around while providing some behind the scenes nuggets. They also suggest a drinking game you can enjoy while watching the episode.
The Verdict
An entertaining show and I'm looking forward to seeing more. Not Guilty.
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Supreme Court endorsed legislative prayer for second time in 30 years
"The local majority can do anything it wants ... that's what this opinion says," he said.
Laycock, who worked with Americans United for the Separation of Church and State in representing Galloway and Stephens, said it would be better "not to have prayer in the public part of government meetings."
By sanctioning "legislative prayer" at the council meetings, Laycock said, "it's a green light for local majorities to impose their religious practices on anyone who wants to participate in civic affairs."
Justice Elena Kagan, who led the dissenting bloc, apparently agreed with Laycock's concern about the content of the prayers.
"I think the Town of Greece's prayer practices violate that norm of religious equality — the breathtakingly generous constitutional idea that our public institutions belong no less to the Buddhist or Hindu than to the Methodist or Episcopalian," she wrote.
She chided the town's practice that led to more than a decade of "prayers steeped in only one faith, addressed toward members of the public, commenced meetings to discuss local affairs and distribute government benefits. In my view, that practice does not square with the First Amendment's promise that every citizen, irrespective of her religion, owns an equal share in her government."
But Kennedy, in the majority opinion, dismissed concerns such as those voiced by Laycock and Kagan, noting the sectarian prayers heard in Congress during America's earlier years.
"The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our nation was less pluralistic than it is today," the justice wrote. "Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. It acknowledges our growing diversity not by proscribing sectarian content but by welcoming ministers of many creeds."
Kennedy also stated the purpose and practical boundaries for such orations: "Prayer that is solemn and respectful in tone, that invites lawmakers to reflect upon shared ideals and common ends before they embark on the fractious business of governing, serves that legitimate function."
Religious reaction
While many Christian groups including the Alliance Defending Freedom, Liberty Counsel and the Faith and Freedom Coalition applauded the move, some strict separationists demurred. K. Hollyn Hollman, an attorney for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, which supported the Americans United case, told the Deseret News her group would be happier with a moment of silence at a town council meeting.
"I don't think it is good for religion to mix specific worship practices in participatory government meetings," she said. "You shouldn't have to participate in an act of worship in order to attend a local government meeting."
But Southern Baptist pastor Russell D. Moore, president of Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said the court did the right thing. "This is a victory for all of those who believe in the freedom of speech, including religious speech, as a prized part of our God-given religious liberty."
Harsh Voruganti the Hindu American Foundation's associate director of public policy, asserted the "decision is inconsistent with previous Supreme Court decisions preventing government endorsement of specific religious beliefs. Unfortunately, this decision may open the door to government sanctioned sectarian prayers."
The ruling may also open the door to further litigation, according to historian John Ragosta, a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and author of the 2013 book, "Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed."
He said the main part of the decision "is fairly sensible in a lot of ways: If we can have legislative prayer, government cannot be telling people how to pray. The government should not be in the business of telling people what to say in their prayers. There's a lot of merit to that."
However, Ragosta said, the decision "doesn't really resolve a lot of issues" regarding the content of such prayers, and he predicted the matter may come before the high court again.
But law professor Laycock disagrees, saying, "It appears to be a final curtain on any attempt to require some sensitivity to religious minorities in anything that can be called legislative."
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MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Wash. -- Staff members working in Madigan Army Medical Center\'s Department of Urology and Radiation Oncology Services know how scary it is when patients are told they have prostate cancer. To help reduce the shock and fear associated with cancer, these two departments created a Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Clinic to provide a simple one-stop shop for prostate cancer patients to discuss their treatment options, answer questions and get one-on-one face-time with the doctors and nurses who will have complete oversight of their care. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy at Madigan, and the clinic serves about 1,200 patients a year. The clinic is open to patients Wednesday mornings, and during the visit, the patient will discuss treatment options and future care with a urologic oncologist, radiation oncologist, case manager and social worker - and everyone in the room will have full knowledge of that patient's background, care, and current treatments. These factors give the patient improved care and better surveillance after treatment, said Maj. (Dr.) Timothy Brand, the clinic's chief. "We ensure that the patient is able to see everyone that they need to see in that one visit, not four separate visits." The group looks at four different areas originating from the Health Outcomes section focused on patient care: assessment, planning, facilitation and advocating. These four topics promote communication and collaboration between staff members, helping them stay on the same page and empower patients to be self-reliant and informed, said Genevieve Partain, the clinic's case manager. Partain maintains a master roster of all the patients enrolled in the clinic. She constantly updates the list whenever new patient information is documented, and in the same language the doctors use when transcribing their notes. All of this is to preserve patient continuity of care, she said. "We get feedback from the patients and it has been exceptionally positive," Partain added. Additionally, Madigan is a participating site in the Center for Prostate Disease Research Multi-center National Database Program. The program seeks to collect comprehensive data to learn more about prostate disease, particularly prostate cancer, so clinicians can develop more effective prevention, diagnostic and treatment strategies. This initiative is offered to the patients who are seen in the Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Clinic. Prostate cancer patients have multiple options for management of localized prostate cancer that include: Aca,!Ac da Vinci prostatectomy surgery: a minimally invasive, robotic-assisted surgical procedure that removes the cancerous prostate gland and related structures. Aca,!Ac Brachytherapy: a minimally invasive procedure where the doctor implants tiny permanent radioactive seeds (about the size of a grain of rice) into the prostate where they irradiate the cancer from inside the gland. Aca,!Ac External Beam Radiation Therapy: an Intensity Modulated Radiation System where radiation is delivered to the prostate from outside the body with a high energy X-ray beam. A newer system to Madigan is the Calypso 4D Localization System. This type of external beam radiation therapy provides clinicians continuous and real-time tracking of the prostate through permanent placement of Beacon transponders (small electronic devices) that are implanted in the prostate or prostate bed that keep the target in the path of the radiation beam at all times. By detecting the slightest tumor movement - and enabling the patient to be repositioned if necessary - the Calypso 4D Localization System helps clinicians deliver radiation directly to the tumor while avoiding healthy surrounding tissues and organs. Aca,!Ac Active surveillance: a program to manage low-risk cancer by closely monitoring the status of the cancer through periodic lab tests, exams, and re-biopsies. Intervention is reserved for when there is evidence of progression. The different treatment options are the true beauty of the Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Clinic, said Maj. (Dr.) Dusten Macdonald, a radiation oncologist with the clinic. The patient is diagnosed with prostate cancer and offered the four treatments, and he can choose the one that fits his biases or the one that has the most acceptable side effects. "We have the patients' best interests in mind, no matter which treatment the patient chooses," Macdonald said. Radiation Oncology Services is currently conducting three clinical research trials with the Calypso System, which are offered as a treatment option to those patients who are considering radiation therapy. Participants must be 40 years or older and have a current diagnosis of prostate cancer or have had their prostate removed but still require further treatment. For more information about use with the Calypso System at Madigan, please contact the Radiation Oncology Services at 253-968-2090.


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As DC Comics' solicitations confirmed yesterday, the much-anticipated debut of the Batwoman series has been moved from February to April — the date that writer-artist J.H. Williams III notes he originally wanted.
"Some think that this book was to launch last July," the award-winning artist writes on his blog, "this was never the case, this was speculation on the part of some. The book was also never to launch in November either. The zero issue which came out at that time was never in the original plans, but was done as a bit of a reminder as requested by DC, and to set the stage, this of course took out time of the work already in progress. February had been decided on the launch date by the company with reservations about that from me. I felt that was a bit too soon in a realistic look at work progression. One of the reasons for this was that I had been seriously committed to making appearances around the world over this past year. I think maybe 3 months or more of work loss occurred during that time. I kept trying to point this out whenever discussions about schedule came up. When first discussing the launch date earlier last year we had originally wanted April 2011, and now ironically that is what we have. Only after solicits stating otherwise, causing some unnecessary frustrations."
Williams, who's collaborating on Batwoman with W. Haden Blackman and Amy Reeder, says his schedule was further complicated by the addition of the covers for the high-profile Batman Inc. (He's since bowed out of that assignment, with the cover for Issue 5 being his last.)
"Even though there has been issues raised in the scheduling and plans being jumped the gun on, DC acknowledges for the greater good of the project we need more time," he continues. "I'm glad that they saw this was a good idea, this will help maintain a certain standard that we've already set in place."
Visit Williams' blog for more of his comments, and to see his covers for Batman Inc. Batwoman #1 is set to debut on April 27, according to the DC Comics website (the solicitations released yesterday say April 6).
DC Comics' Batwoman will undergo another delay, with the publisher moving the series' debut from February to April.
The news was revealed online yesterday by retailers The Lauchpad and Comics on the Green. "What a surprise," the latter wrote on the store's Twitter account. "… It's a JH Williams book, of course it's not going to be on time."
A spokesman for DC, which previewed art from the first issue just two weeks ago, didn't respond this morning to a request for comment.
The much-anticipated comic, by J.H. Williams III, W. Haden Blackman and Amy Reeder, initially was scheduled to begin in July, but instead DC released a one-shot in November designed to serve as a primer for the ongoing series.
This delay is only the latest bump in the road for the new Batwoman — lesbian socialite Kate Kane — whose introduction in summer 2006 was met with a hail of mainstream-media coverage, perhaps far more than the publisher had anticipated. A long-rumored Batwoman series faced one setback after another until finally, in February 2009, it was confirmed that the long-awaited Batwoman comic by Greg Rucka and Williams would become an arc of Detective Comics, timed to coincide with the "death"-induced absence of Batman. Their tenure ended in December 2009, with Detective #860, followed by a three-issue arc by Rucka and Jock.
The same month their acclaimed "Elegy" arc ended, Rucka revealed he and Williams would continue the story in Batwoman. But in April, Rucka announced he was walking away from the character, and from DC Comics. Less than two weeks later, the publisher confirmed it was still committed to Batwoman, with Williams sharing writing duties with Blackman and art duties with Reeder.
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Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium 64 bit with all the updates. Wireless network connection.
I can't connect this PC to my NAS; none of the other PCs on the network, or the NAS, appear when I browse the network. This is a home setup, I have checked that all devices are in the same workgroup. I am not using Home Groups. There are no problems browsing the internet or printing to my HP Photosmart Wireless printer.
It turns out that Network discovery is turned off, but if I turn it on it immediately turns itself off again.
So far I have found that:
- Network Discovery won't turn on because the UPnP Device Host service is stopped.
- The UPnP Device host service is stopped and won't start because it depends on the SSDP Discovery service and the HTTP service. The SSDP Discovery service is stopped.
- The SSDP Discovery service is stopped and won't start, it depends on the HTTP service.
- There appears to be no such thing as a HTTP service. It does not appear on the Computer Management | Services page (I've checked that this is normal, there is no HTTP service on another, working, PC.)
That's it; I have no idea what to do now. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks.


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Lifestyle Changes and Osteoporosis
Quit Smoking
Smoking is bad for the bones as well as for the heart and lungs. Women who smoke have lower estrogen levels compared with women who do not smoke. Lower estrogen levels result in decreased bone mass. Smokers may also absorb less calcium from their diets, and calcium is necessary for strong bones. Finally, women who smoke and choose hormone replacement therapy after menopause may require higher doses of hormones and have more complications.
Limit Alcohol Intake
Regular consumption of 2-3 ounces of alcohol a day may be damaging to bones, even in young women and men. Heavy drinkers are more likely to have bone loss and fractures. This is related to both poor nutrition and increased risk of falling. However, some evidence indicates that moderate alcohol intake may have beneficial effects on bone mass.
Psychological and Practical Support
No cure exists for osteoporosis, but effective treatment plans are available. Support networks are important to successful treatment. Information on preventing falls and maintaining a healthy diet and exercise routine is widely available (see For More Information). Physical rehabilitation after fractures can be a long process, and psychological and practical support is important. Patient support groups can lessen feelings of isolation and depression. Support groups can also provide practical advice, including strategies to prevent falls and increase mobility.
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A Place, potentially a nightspot, frequented by obese lesbians for the express purpose of holding Rosie O'Donnell lookalike competitions. These competitions are usually riotously funny, with attending lesbians tending to "Lawl alot"
Memember the time at the smorben? Lawls alot!
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3 ingredient Ice Cream
This is NOT my recipe---I found this on Pinterest, the lady that posted this, used a regular ice cream maker, I just have the kind that you freeze the inside container. I halved the recipe and did not add any extra milk; it came out great---here is her website
She also has an orange ice cream posted as well...yumm yumm
She also has an orange ice cream posted as well...yumm yumm
- 1 can(s)
- sweetened condensed milk
- 8 oz
- cool whip
- 1/2 gal
- chocolate milk
Directions Step-By-Step
1Let me say...the ingredient list is what the recipe said on Pinterest. I used half of each ingredient...and I did not add any extra chocolate milk. Because she had a regular 1/2 gallon maker, mine is just a simple maker and was only 2 quart size.
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Course/Dish: Ice Cream & Ices
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