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The Rufous Hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax), also known as Philippine Hornbill and, locally, as Kalaw (pronounced kah-lau) is a large species of hornbill endemic to the Philippines, where it occurs in primary, mature secondary and disturbed forests on 11 islands: Luzon and Marinduque (race hydrocorax), Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Panaon, Biliran, Calicoan and Buad (race semigaleatus), Dinagat, Siargao, Mindanao (plus Balut, Bucas and Talicud) and Basilan (race mindanensis).
It is still common locally, notably in the Sierra Madre of Luzon, but continues to suffer from substantial hunting pressure and widespread loss of habitat.
The bill of the nominate subspecies is all-red, while the bills of the subspecies semigaleatus and mindanensis are pale yellow on the distal half.
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The nestlings and female are fed by the male through a narrow vertical slit in the sealed nest opening.
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"To many men the sense of domination is sweet..." writes Leonard Barnes in his book Empire or Democracy (1939).
On Tuesday, leaders from across Indian Country gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol for the New Day Now rally, hosted by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development during our Reservation Economic Summit (RES).
President Obama, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and much of the chattering class are focused on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that will be a major symbol of Obama's "pivot to Asia"—if it happens.
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The upcoming mayoral election in Rapid City, South Dakota may likely come down to the Native American vote.
On May 14, the House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Native Affairs conducted a hearing entitled:
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In the 1823 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh, Chief Justice Marshall made a statement on behalf of a unanimous court that the United States is still applying to our original nations and peoples one hundred and ninety two years later.
On May 14, the House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Native Affairs conducted a hearing entitled, "Inadequate Standards for Trust Land Acquisition in the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez recently cut a deal with the U.S.
Political directions "left" and "right" come from the seating arrangement in the Estates-General (Parliament) at the onset of the French Revolution. Early on, the royalists were seated on the right.
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Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Eliteby Bernard Goldberg
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In his #1 New York Times bestseller, Bias, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg created a national firestorm when he exposed the liberal biases of the so-called mainstream media. Now Goldberg takes on Big Journalism and punctures the bubble in which the media elites live and work-a culture of denial where contrary views are not welcome. With blistering wit and passion, Goldberg offers a twelve-step program to help journalists overcome their addiction to slanted news and exposes the main culprits of arrogance in the media. He reveals: How the media's coverage of the Jayson Blair scandal missed far more serious problems at the New York Times, Why the media refuse to shoot straight when the subject turns to guns, Which CBS News icon is "transparently liberal," according to commentator Andy Rooney, Why some think the top journalism school in America is an intellectual gulag, How some journalists, like Bob Costas and Tim Russert, do get it-and how they think American journalism can be made better.
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IntroductionSo I'm sitting in a very nice conference room in the very nice Time & Life Building, high above bustling West Fiftieth Street in Manhattan, for my first meeting on this book. There are about ten big shots from Warner Books sitting around a very nice long table waiting to hear what I have in mind, which basically is to use my earlier book Bias as a jumping-off point to examine the powerful behind-the-scenes forces that have turned too many American newsrooms into bastions of political correctness; to examine those forces and see why they generate bias in the news and how they sustain it; and to tell the media elites, who are too arrogant to see for themselves, the ways they'd better change if they want to stay relevant. Because if they don't, they'll cease to be serious players in the national conversation and become the journalistic equivalent of the leisure suit-harmless enough but hopelessly out of date.
But as I'm sitting there I'm not thinking about any of that. To be perfectly honest, what I am thinking is, before Bias caught on with so many Americans, before it became such a hit, no one in the liberal, highbrow book business would have thrown water on me if I were on fire. None of them would have dirtied their hands on a book that would have dismayed their smart, sensitive liberal friends. Before Bias I would have been the skunk at their garden party. But now they can't wait to hear what I think?
But about fourteen seconds in, I am brought back to earth when one of the participants informs me that a friend of his thinks the whole idea of liberal bias is bogus.
I smile the kind of insincere smile I detest in others and look at the guy, wondering if I'm also looking at his "friend." I'm also wondering if everyone else in the room also thinks that bias in the news is just the stuff of right-wing paranoia. I am in Manhattan, after all, the belly of the beast.
And besides, Manhattan is one of those trendy places where the new hot media chic thing is not only to dismiss the notion of liberal bias in the news, but actually to say, with a straight face, that the real problem is ... conservative bias!
This is so jaw-droppingly bizarre you almost don't know how to respond. It reminds me of a movie I saw way back in the sixties called A Guide for the Married Man. In one scene, Joey Bishop plays a guy caught by his wife red-handed in bed with a beautiful woman. As the wife goes nuts, demanding to know what the hell is going on, Joey and the woman get out of bed and calmly put on their clothes. He then casually straightens up the bed and quietly responds to his wife, who by now has smoke coming out of her ears, "What bed? What girl?" After the woman leaves, Joey settles in his lounge chair and reads the paper, pausing long to enough to ask his wife if she shouldn't be in the kitchen preparing dinner!
Joey's mantra in such situations is simple: Deny! Deny! Deny! And in this scene his denials are so matter-of-fact and so nonchalant that by the time the other woman leaves the bedroom, leaving just Joey and his wife, her head is spinning and she's so bamboozled that she's seriously beginning to doubt what she just saw with her own two eyes. She's actually beginning to believe him when he says there was no other woman in the room!
Just think of Joey Bishop as the media elite and think of his wife as you-the American news-consuming public.
You have caught them red-handed over and over again with their biases exposed, and all they do is Deny! Deny! Deny! Only now the media have become even more brazen. Simply denying isn't good enough anymore. Now they're not content looking you in the eye and calmly saying, "What bias?" Now they're just as calmly turning truth on its head, saying the real problem is conservative bias.
What's next? They look up from their paper and ask why you're not in the kitchen preparing dinner?
Having been on the inside for as long as I have, twenty-eight years as a CBS News correspondent, I should have known it would be just a matter of time before they would stop playing defense and go on the offensive. Given their arrogance, I should have known that sooner or later they would say, "We don't have a bias problem-and if you think we do, then that proves that you're the one with the bias problem." Never mind that millions of Americans scream about liberal bias in the media; all the journalists can say is "You're the one with the bias!" The emperors of alleged objectivity have been naked for quite some time now, and sadly, they're the only ones who haven't noticed. Or as Andrew Sullivan, the very perceptive observer of all things American, so elegantly puts it, "Only those elite armies of condescension keep marching on, their privates swinging in the breeze."
But to deny liberal bias, the elites not only have had to brush off their own viewers, they also have had to paint their critics as wild-eyed ideologues-and then completely misrepresent what they say. For example, on March 4, 2003, this is how Nicholas Kristoff began his column in the New York Times: "Claims that the news media form a vast liberal conspiracy strike me as utterly unconvincing." Well, they strike me as utterly unconvincing, too. Exactly who, Nick, is making those "claims"? Got any names? Because I travel all over the country and speak about bias in the media, and I haven't met one serious conservative-not one-who believes that a "vast liberal conspiracy" controls the news. And for what it's worth, I write on page four of the introduction to Bias that "It is important to know, too, that there isn't a well-orchestrated, vast left-wing conspiracy in America's newsrooms." What I and many others do believe, and what I think is fairly obvious, is that the majority of journalists in big newsrooms slant leftward in their personal politics, especially on issues like abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, and gun control; and so in their professional role they tend to assume those positions are reasonable and morally correct. Bias in the news stems from that-not from some straw man conspiracy concocted by liberals in the supposedly objective, mainstream media.
Yet the idea that socially liberal reporters might actually take a liberal tack in their reporting is a proposition too many journalists on the Left refuse even to consider. Better to cast conservatives as a bunch of loonies who see conspiracies under every bed, around every corner, behind every tree, and, most important of all, in every newsroom.
In fact, right on the heels of the Kristoff column, the conspiracy thing pops up again in-surprise, surprise-the New York Times. This time in a book review: "The notion that a vast left-wing conspiracy controls America's airwaves and newsprint [is] ... routinely promoted as gospel on the right."
Wrong again! But they are right about one thing: There is plenty of paranoid talk about a "vast left-wing conspiracy" in the newsroom. The problem is, the paranoids dreaming it up aren't conservatives-they're liberals!
And the uncomfortable truth-uncomfortable for ideologues on the Left, anyway-is that there now exists "a huge body of literature-including at least 100 books and research monographs-documenting a widespread left-wing bias in the news," according to Ted Smith III of Virginia Commonwealth University, who has done extensive research into the subject. And much of the evidence comes not from conservatives with axes to grind but straight from the journalists themselves, who in survey after survey have identified themselves as liberal on all the big, important social issues of our time.
Despite the overwhelming evidence, despite all the examples of bias that were documented in my book and others, despite the surveys that show that large numbers of Americans consider the elite media too liberal, despite all of that, the elites remain in denial. Why? Well, for starters, as I say, a lot them truly don't understand what the fuss is all about, since they honestly believe that their views on all sorts of divisive issues are not really controversial-or even liberal. After all, their liberal friends in Manhattan and Georgetown share those same views, which practically by definition make them moderate and mainstream. So, the thinking goes, it is all those Middle Americans who take the opposing view on, say, guns or gay marriage who are out of the mainstream, the ones who are "fringe." Journalists don't usually use the word-not in public anyway-but those supposedly not-too-sophisticated "fringe" Americans are smart enough to pick up on the condescension.
But there's another reason journalists refuse to come clean on liberal bias-one that Dr. Freud would have a field day with. To be honest with the American people and themselves, you see, would be to shake their world to its very foundations. And that, as you might imagine, is not something they're anxious to do, introspection not being their strong suit. By and large, these are people who see themselves as incredibly decent, even noble. They're the good guys trying to make the world a better place. That's why many of them went into journalism in the first place-to make the world a better place. Bias is something the bad guys are guilty of. So rather than look honestly at themselves and their profession, they hang on for dear life to the ludicrous position, to the completely absurd notion, that they, among all human beings, are unique-that only they have the ability to set aside their personal feelings and their beliefs and report the news free of any biases, "because we're professionals," they say.
But so are cops, and they can't keep their biases in check is what journalists tell us all the time. If a cop is biased, sooner or later that bias is going to come out on the job, is what reporters say. And they're probably right. It's human nature, after all. It's the same with judges and corporate executives with biases. No way they have the ability to set their personal feelings and beliefs completely aside-not for long anyway. And, as we all know, no white southern male over the age of five can keep his biases under control, certainly not as far as the elites are concerned. But journalists alone, the guys in the white hats, somehow can do what no other group can. Somehow, all of their life experiences can neatly be set aside as they go about bringing us the news, absent any preconceived notions and prejudices-because "we're professionals."
It's unbelievable. Literally.
Deny! Deny! Deny! By now it's not only their mantra, it's practically official newsroom policy. In one way or another Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw have all dismissed the very idea of liberal bias in the news. Rather has called it a "myth" and a "canard" and has actually said that "Most reporters don't know whether they're Republican or Democrat." Jennings thinks that "It's just essential to make the point that we are largely in the center, without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage." Ditto Brokaw, Couric, Lauer, Stahl, Wallace, and Bradley. The list, as they say, goes on and on.
But as strategies go, this new wrinkle-"There is no liberal bias in the news, but there is a conservative bias"-is far better. This is what you say if you're a media liberal who is not only tired of playing defense but wants to put his critics on the defensive for a change. This is what you say if you're trapped in a corner, and you don't know what else to do and you think you're fighting for your life.
It was Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader in the Senate, who fired the first shot (unless you want to go back a few years to Hillary Clinton and her warning about the vast right-wing conspiracy) when he went after every liberal's favorite punching bag, Rush Limbaugh, in November 2002. That was right after the Democrats got hammered in the midterm elections and lost control of the Senate. Daschle accused Limbaugh and other conservatives on talk radio of inciting violence against liberals like himself. How would that work? you ask. Well, apparently Senator Daschle thinks the people who listen to talk radio are a bunch of crazy, drooling, scary rednecks who-if they're in a good mood-merely send out death threats to the liberals Rush was complaining about. If, on the other hand, Rush riles them up-and they're in a foul mood-well, then, who the hell knows what those morons might do?
This was so pathetically lame that it would have just been a one- or two-day story, except up popped Al Gore to stir the cauldron. Gore expanded the target list from Limbaugh to an entire Conservative Axis of Evil-an unholy trinity made up of talk radio, Fox News, and the Washington Times, whom Gore said were nothing more than mouthpieces for the Republican Party. "Most of the media [have] been slow to recognize the pervasive impact of this fifth column in their ranks," he declared, "that is, day after day, injecting the daily Republican talking points into the definition of what's objective as stated by the news media as a whole."
Once Al Gore spoke the gospel of conservative bias, it took only seconds for left-of-center journalists to start hopping on board the bandwagon.
"Al Gore said the obvious," wrote the left-wing New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
"The legend of the liberal media is finally dead," proclaimed Joe Conason, the liberal columnist of the New York Observer.
"Sooner or later, I think we're all going to have to acknowledge that the myth of liberal bias in the press is just that, it's a myth," according to Jack White, one of TIME magazine's liberal columnists.
The true "new bias," according to E. J. Dionne Jr., one of the many liberal columnists at the Washington Post, "adds up to [a] media heavily biased toward conservative politics and conservative politicians."
Then on January 1, 2003, a weary world woke up to a page-one story in the New York Times, a story that made it all official. According to the Times, liberals are so sick of being beaten up by pro-conservative media, like talk radio and Fox News, that they are looking to create liberal outlets of their own for "balance"-everything from "progressive" radio talk shows, as the Times described it, to "a cable network with a liberal bent."
This seems like a good place to state the obvious: Yes, Republicans do indeed have friends in some conservative places like talk radio, Fox News, and the Washington Times, whom I'm sure they use to get their talking points out.
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A true veteran of Journalism Bernard Goldberg again has brought the important issue of bias in the media to Americans who have been long deceived by some major news organizations. As a student studying journalism I see some of Goldberg's points in the flesh in my experiences. It was a great read and definitely an important one. Any who reads this book, from front to back, and still sees no evidence of media bias needs wake up to reality.
I recieved this book on Christmas and had it read by new years. I can not explain why I was glued to the book. In reading this book I could smell his ego, but with a book of this quality... well I guess he earned it.
'Bias' blew the lid off big media's failure to live up to it's role as an objective vendor of the news, and 'Arrogance' provides the depth of insight into what really goes on behind the scene at 'Big Media' outlets like the New York Times. Excellent, revealing and very often - shocking -is how I describe 'Arrogance' by Bernard Goldberg.
Bias was as the one review put it, an elephant in the living room. Arrogance isn't quite an elephant, but it certainly is an exquisitely researched and well-written followup. I was extremely pleased that Goldberg saved some mind-numbing stats for this book...for all the examples in Bias where there were zero uses of a certain phrase by whomever on TV, there are as many if not more. It makes the point and drives it home forcefully that the media in this country is undeniably Left and while it uses some repeated points from Bias to do so, the new info and the two interviews (Russert and Costas) are outstanding as well. After reading one or both of Mr. Goldberg's books, you might feel the same way I do about the three 'mainstream' news anchors: queasy.
Goldberg nails the NYTimes editorial board and the network puppets.
Former CBS broadcast journalist Bernard Goldberg is seemingly the only journalist with the courage and integrity to expose the rampantly biased news media. And for his efforts -- of simply doing the right thing by writing BIAS and defending the truth -- he has been taking the heat from the media elite, others of their ilk, and the misinformed. But he's not giving up the fight. Goldberg's second book, ARROGANCE takes the truth and doing the right thing a step further, and he offers a solution. Indeed, it cannot be emphasized enough that instead of being objective truth givers and watchdogs for the people, the media elite have become a disturbing threat to free speech and democracy. They are unconscionable in advancing their social, political and economic agenda, stifling debate, censoring objectivity and condemning any dissent from their ideology. Goldberg is a hero to those who resist and reject relentless bias in the media. He is a champion for democracy and his books are highly recommended.
Mr. Goldberg's thesis is a return to journalistic balance. He fights uphill, since the American press has been partisan about every issue of importance (and many of absolute silliness) since factions developed in the early 19th Century. The book's examples reinforce the thesis strongly. Notwithstanding Mr. Franken's supposed rebuttal, the average media-watching human can often detect something 'wrong-headed' about the coverage. Books like this help teach readers to be more aware of stories, more conscious that there may be slanted or missing elements in reports. I call it a worthwhile book. So will you, if you genuinely believe that reporting of news should be fair and accurate rather than polemical. If you already have a political mind-set, it will generate the kind of reactions seen in other reviews.
I would prefer a more academic approach as to the journalistic style of writing. However, it is an excellent sequel to his book bias. This is a must read for anyone who wants a fair media.
If, as some claim, Bernard Goldberg's assertions of a liberal bias in the media are inaccurate, why would not the offended anchormen, et al, invite him on their programs and expose his misrepresentations. The obvious answer--'The Smoking Gun'--is, obviously, that those of whom he writes are offended not by his assertions, but by the fact that he--an 'insider'--had the courage to tell the truth, which they apparently consider a betrayal of them and their 'balanced reporting.'
Goldberg's Arrogance explains why the media elite slant the news and what they can do to change their ways. Check out a book that starts where Goldberg left off: 'JOURNALISTIC FRAUD: HOW THE NEW YORK TIMES DISTORTS THE NEWS', available here on Barnes & Noble. 'Journalistic Fraud' explains HOW they slant the news and how you can learn to spot the subtle techniques of burying opinion in the body of a news story. Goldberg is inspiring a fleet of authors who are trying to bring objectivity back into the news room. God bless him!
Truth hurts. This book unveils what should be obviously transparent.The 'news' is not news at all. Its old news and getting older.'Mainstream' America has always been suspicious of the media and what 'constitutes' 'newsworthy'.Integrity is lost in this 'institution of facts.' What has evolved is a double standard that slants opinions of the liberal left. News is Op-ed at best. The cronies who threw Jayson Blair out forgot to include themselves for the exact same if not worse crimes comitted.Leave... Mr.Sulzberger.Restoration of facts and only facts is a day the American people await.
I think Brad needs to watch the interview w/ Al Franklin again, since Al interupted Bernie's responses everytime Bernie tried to answer. Liberals often interupt a conservative's thoughts and ideas because they are often layed in logic, not emotion, like so many liberal thoughts and ideas.
I really was waiting to read this book. Boy was it a breath of truth. Right on and to the heart of the problem w/ the totally leftist media.Seeing there reaction to this book is further proof of there lopsided view of the world. Not one of the media elite has given an objective review of this wonderful book. This book goes along w/ the theme in another great book out there ,Who's Looking out for you. By Mr.Bill Orielly. Clearly not the media. I read this book quickly but clearly and wanted to get this posted.
If Bias didn¿t convince you that the media is Liberal biased, this book should. Goldberg gives more proof of how the media colors the news to fit their agenda.
Brad should go back to school. He does not know how to read a good book and no intellegence to recognize great literature like Goldberg book 'Arrgance'. He should pull his head out of his deep hole. Good job Goldberg.
The right-wing 'expose' books are growing old. I can go a long time without seeing any more Goldberg, O'Reilly, Coulter, Savage or Limbaugh...and equally have no need to read Al Franken rebuttal propaganda. This has become ridiculous.
Mr. Mack provides no evidence to back up his dismissal of Brad's feedback. This is similar to Mr. Goldberg's poor effort. It's hard to believe that he (Mr. Goldberg) was not part of the problem he tries to discribe in his new book. The Arrogant are Mr. Goldberg and his followers.
I find it interesting that Brad has rated a book he has not even read.... I think Brad should stick to the twisted half-truths that his heroes Franken and Moore like to peddle.
He was exposed as a conjurer of lies by Al Franken on national television! He was shut up, completely speechless, unable to respond. Bernie doesn't even have his facts straight. He is a lazy writer who needs to learn how to research.
Yes, do you really believe that the 'left' own all the media? Rupert Murdoch, for instance? He is not a well-known supporter of trade unions. Note, you have to be pretty rich to own a whole newspaper - try buying one with loose change. Or how about a TV station - cheap NOT! So it's more likely that rich people own them, and on the whole rich people tend to be slightly more pro-rich people than pro-the majority. It's such nonsense to say that the media are 'left'. Get real!


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Pawlenty's first mailer to Iowa caucus voters claims that he "appointed the first ever conservative majority on the Minnesota Supreme Court," and interesting reminder to caucus voters who recently turned out three state supreme court justices at the urging of a Mississippi based hate group. In the GOP debate this week, Pawlenty suggested that, if elected president, he would appoint justices who are more conservative than the late 19th and earth 20th century justices who immunized sweatshops from the law and upheld segregation.


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Amarillo city commissioners have enacted an ordinance regulating barnyard fowl within the city limits.
Residents now have limits on the number of chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks, guineas and peacocks - four per quarter acre.
This is a good call, given that farm animals belong on the farm.
Now the city is tackling another animal-related matter: dogs.
The Amarillo Animal Control Board has recommended an ordinance that requires dog owners to keep their pets on leashes when they are off the owners' property. The recommendation came in the wake of a rash of attacks in 2006 by aggressive dogs - namely pit bulls - on other pets.
But now the commission is considering a plan to develop doggie play areas in three city parks - John Stiff, Southeast and Thompson - where the pooches can run untethered from their owners' leashes.
This also is a good idea. It represents a compromise of sorts.
The city's current policy requires dogs to be restrained only by "voice command." Commissioners will consider the Animal Control Board recommendation to require leashes when pet owners are walking their dogs off their property. Indeed, no amount of hollering from an angry pet owner is going to prevent an overly aggressive dog from harming another animal or, God forbid, a child.
The park development idea is a companion to the new leash law. It would provide 2.6 acres in Thompson Park, 4 acres in Southeast Park and 2 acres in John Stiff Park for the dogs to run relatively free. The areas would be fenced off from the rest of the park grounds.
Parks Director Larry Offerdahl told commissioners that similar projects have succeeded elsewhere, so he is willing to try it here.
The idea of spreading the zones around the city also should play well with dog owners who won't have to travel great distances across town to take their pets out to play in the park.
The city has done well in its effort to resolve this problem with potentially aggressive dogs: Put the dogs on a leash when away from home, but give them a secure place on public property to run.
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Googled the BG's name and came up with this:
NOPD thinks gunman who was killed by driver may have held up others | wwltv.com | WWLTV.com News
and this:
Suspect In Armed Robbery Murdered - WGNO
Happy trails, hole.
This is a discussion on Carjack victim shoots suspect to death within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by Bark'n Hmmm... seems like you can win when someone has the drop on you. "Sudden and acute failure of the victim selection ...
Most criminals give the element of surprise back to their victim. They generally prefer either not leaving bodies behind or killing the victim after they have achieved their objective (digging for valuables on a freshly dead corpse is messy, time consuming and follows on the heels of a loud noise that will likely draw unwanted attention). If they thought you were going to be trouble, they never would have assaulted you.
Those who will not govern their own behavior are slaves waiting for a master; one will surely find them.
Googled the BG's name and came up with this:
NOPD thinks gunman who was killed by driver may have held up others | wwltv.com | WWLTV.com News
and this:
Suspect In Armed Robbery Murdered - WGNO
Happy trails, hole.
McElveen, wounded, dropped his gun and fell to the ground. The would-be victim called 911, but McElveen died before paramedics could arrive to treat him, coroner's chief investigator John Gagliano said.
And another one bites the dust. Good shooting by the truck owner.
"Suspect in Armed Robbery Murdered"? What kind of reporting is that?
Tell me, how the second News Report can justify saying the BG was Murdered during his commision of an armed robbery?
Suspect In Armed Robbery Murdered - WGNO
Poor victim selection indead!
I'll bet this was not how Joshua Mcelveen thought that night was supposed to go down for for him, at all!
Hello Jesus!
Bet he wishes he gone to Church with Grammy instead.
A note to the Mcelveen Family: Although we cheer for his Victims ability to defend himself, I grieve with you over your loss. It's sad to see our youth waste their lives this way. Especially since we live in a Country where he could have been President had he applied himself.
May his passing turn someone elses lives away from evil. I pray it does!
At least they got the words victim and suspect right.
WHAT A DISGUSTINGLY PATHETIC, BIASED & ERRONEOUS HEADLINE!!!!! Shame on the reporter that wrote it, the editor that approved it, and the paper that printed it!
McElveen wasn't murdered! John Lennon was murdered, not McElveen! McElveen was shot in self defense by his intended robbery victim during the act of commiting a crime, & later died of his wounds. Thankfully, we'll never know McElveen's full intentions of not shooting or shooting, & at what point. How many stories do we see & read of victims fully complying, only to be shot anyway ... it's just way too risky to take that chance anymore. When a gun is pulled on you, you have to assume the worst & act accordingly. Anything less is leaving the fate of your life to the spontaneous whims of the bad guys. The BG's are psychic, as only they know if the victim(s) is going to get shot or not, & sometimes they don't even know until the final moments of their bad deeds.
I'm surprised the press didn't rant about the cold, callous, insensitive shooter that had no right to defend himself, because all he had to do was comply & politely surrender his truck, all his valuables, & possibly his life, while justifying McElveen's actions with the blithering sob stories of troubled childhood & home situation, & how he was really a good kid at heart on the verge of turning his life around & didn't deserve this.
Can't speak for anyone else, but for me ... that CRAP don't cut it anymore. The more BG's eliminated during the act of violent crimes ... the merrier!
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Gun Free Zones are totally effective, and 100% safe ... (wait for it) ... (wait for it) ... until a bad guy with a gun shows up! Then suddenly, you have an uncontested Kill Zone of defensless sheep, patiently awaiting their turn for the slaughter.
Good guy +1.
This is exactly what should happen to criminals that threaten deadly force. They receive more deadly force than they bargained for.
Trust in God and keep your powder dry
"A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty. A people stripped of their right of self defense is defenseless against their own government." -source
Good for the truck owner. I certainly hope he nails the media for that kind of junk reporting.
Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. PSALM 144:1
I CLING to my guns and my Bible.
I sent this email to the station...........Folks:
Who on your staff picks the headlines??
It seems to me that this Headline tag is very misleading. This nice young man was NOT murdered. Websters Dictionary defines Murder as 1 : the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought.
This fine young man, was according, to investigators, was killed during his commission of a violent felony crime. His death came from his intended victim, a citizen who was defending himself.
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- Ronald Reagan
Duh...carjacking a man inside a pickup truck? Did it have NRA and Confederate and veteran decals and stickers on it?


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Objectification theory (Fredrickson and Roberts, Psychology of Women Quarterly, 21, 173–206, 1997) contends that experiences of sexual objectification socialize women to engage in self-objectification. The present study used an experimental design to examine the effects of media images on self-objectification. A total of 90 Australian undergraduate women aged 18 to 35 were randomly allocated to view magazine advertisements featuring a thin woman, advertisements featuring a thin woman with at least one attractive man, or advertisements in which no people were featured. Participants who viewed advertisements featuring a thin-idealized woman reported greater state self-objectification, weight-related appearance anxiety, negative mood, and body dissatisfaction than participants who viewed product control advertisements. The results demonstrate that self-objectification can be stimulated in women without explicitly focusing attention on their own bodies.
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'Angry Birds' Flock to webOS
Addictive mobile game comes to Palm's Pre and Pre Plus.
"Angry Birds" the popular iOS game that has players launch volleys of birds at nefarious pigs, has landed in Palm's app store.
The Rovio game is one of the most downloaded games in 60 countries and the company is preparing to expand the franchise into a line of toys and possibly a feature film.
"Angry Bird" runs on webOS 1.4.5, but Palm promises additional support planned for older versions of the Linux-based webOS. The app is available for a mere US$ 1.99 and can be downloaded at Palm's App Catalog.
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~2h speedpaint.
dude that is amazing, I have been trying to speedpainting but I dont even know what to start with or anything like that. Good job, you should make a vid one time
I would make a vid if my process was more consistent I tend to spend a lot of time trying out ideas that go nowhere.
This shur is nice, keep it up!
great mood and lighting
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A new U.N. study predicts the next 50 years will bring a world that is larger, older and poorer.
The world, 6.1 billion people strong today, is anticipated to reach 9.3 billion by 2050, the U.N. Population Division estimated in a report issued today. The world's poorest nations will triple in size. Nine of every 10 people will live in a developing country, one of six in India alone.
Meanwhile, Europe and Japan will see their populations plummet, forcing them to rethink immigration policies and adjust social services to accommodate a shrinking work force and a growing elderly population, said Joseph Chamie, director of the U.N. Population Division.
"Some people think the world population problem is over," he said. "No. This is a long-term issue and it's a very complex symphony - you have some countries declining, you have other countries growing rapidly, and you have some staying the same.
"Virtually all of this growth is in the developing world - and a good part of it is in the poorest countries," he added.
Growth will be phenomenal in Africa, much of Asia and Latin America, the study projected. The United States, with a fresh influx of 1 million immigrants a year, will grow - to nearly 400 million at mid-century from 283 million today, it said.
Europe, in contrast, will start seeing a decline as early as 2003 without migration. Ukraine's population is projected to drop nearly by 40 percent by 2050, and Russia's and Italy's more than a quarter.
Last year, the 15 European Union nations together recorded a natural population growth - births minus deaths - of 343,000. It took India just a week to match that. Like China, India is already burdened by a population of 1 billion. It is anticipated to have 600 million more people by 2050.
"We have wasted 50 years," said Ashish Bose, an Indian demographer and longtime critic of the government's population control policies. "Our planning has failed. The attack on poverty, the attack on fertility, the attack on illiteracy should have been simultaneous."
Fifty years ago, Europe claimed 22 percent of the world population, Africa just 8 percent. Today, they stand even at about 13 percent, outnumbered by Asia's 60 percent. But in 50 years, Africa will have three times as many people as Europe, even with AIDS-related deaths.
"It's like a mortality avalanche from the HIV/AIDS epidemic," Chamie said. "Despite that, you see Africa going from about 800 million to 2 billion." Without AIDS, that figure would be 300 million higher by 2050, Chamie projected.
Meanwhile, the industrialized world - Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand - will face an aging population. A fifth of Europe was age 60 or older in 1998; by 2050, that figure could jump to more than a third, with children making up only 14 percent of the population, the report said.
The U.N. projections take into account economic gains as well as lower mortality and fertility rates. But Ben Wattenberg, a senior fellow at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, cautioned that the population estimates could be "potentially misleading."
The fertility rate - the average number of children born to a woman over the course of childbearing years - is dropping faster and more consistently worldwide than the U.N. report suggests, making it likely that the 2050 estimate is inflated, he said.
"Their numbers are high - they should be lower," he said.
If the predictions do play out, fewer workers will be bearing the burden of supporting the elderly, an economic impact that Paul Hewitt of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said could prove "catastrophic" when many of the world's baby boomers - now in their 40s and 50s - begin retiring en masse.
Countries must rethink pension, retirement, trade and immigration, he said. "This is very controversial, but I think it all points the way to globalization. Labor-short countries will need to integrate more with the developing world."
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Kevin Durant's restaurant in OKC has shut down, will reopen under a new name after Labor Day. 1st reported by @briOKC
Kevin Durant's restaurant in OKC has shut down, will reopen under a new name after Labor Day. 1st reported by @briOKC
Wheels up to the Bay. Heard they have a SNKRS box out there 👀
Just re-sign Dion Waiters, and open Waiters Island Seafood Experience twitter.com/anthonyVslater…
Blazers and CJ McCollum reach agreement on a four-year, $106 million maximum contract extension. (via @TheVertical) pic.twitter.com/Kehi0HqxWG
Kyrie Irving isn't worried about facing off against teammate Matthew Dellavedova and the Boomers in the Olympics. espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id…
It appears Nets PG Jeremy Lin has applied for a trademark on the phrase "Brook-Lin" for apparel purposes, according to records. A fan applied for and then transferred the trademark to Lin after he signed with Brooklyn, according to fan site NetsDaily.
Jeremy Lin said on JJ Redick's podcast that he wouldn't even have considered the Nets if Kenny Atkinson wasn't there in place as head coach. Liked the fact that he and Atkinson were at the bottom together in New York and worked their way up.
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Divorce can be a frustrating and exhausting process for all involved parties involved. In order to properly prepare for the steps ahead, it may be most beneficial to have a general understanding of the process that you are about to face. The more informed you are about your situation, the more confident you are likely to be when making decisions.
The follow events comprise the timeline of the average divorce process. Take note that the process may differ slightly due to differences in state laws and due to specific circumstances between you and your spouse:
The Divorce Petition
The divorce process begins with a divorce petition written by one spouse and served on the other spouse. This petition contains relevant information on the marriage including the name of the spouses and their children, as well as an explanation of why a spouse wants a divorce and how he or she would like to settle custody, financial, and other issues. The petition is then filed with the court.
Serving Divorce Papers and the Divorce Petition Response
The divorce papers are served on the other spouse, together with a summons requiring a response from the spouse. The served spouse must respond within a certain time frame—usually about three weeks. This answer indicates whether or not the spouse served agrees with the complaint or petition, and details how he or she would like to deal with the divorce decisions.
If both spouses are agreeable to the divorce, then the other spouse must sign an acknowledgement of the receipt of service. If the spouse served does not reply to the petition, the court will assume that he or she agrees to the terms indicated.
If both parties do not begin settlement negotiations immediately, then the next step of the divorce process is known as discovery. In this phase, the couple must exchange all relevant information and documents on issues concerning income and property, and both assets and liabilities. With this information, both the court and the couple can determine how best to divide up the assets, as well as how to deal with relavant issues such as alimony and child support. The extent of the discovery process typically depends on the make-up and size of the marital estate.
Mediation or Settlement
In some instances, the couple opts to resolve their issues through settlement or mediation voluntarily. Certain states require divorcing couples to undergo this process. If the couple reaches a settlement, then this agreement is presented to a judge. If the judge approves the couple's agreement in an informal hearing, the judge issues a divorce decree to the couple. If the judge rejects the agreement or if the couple does not arrive at an agreement, then the case will proceed to trial.
At trial, attorneys will present arguments and evidence for each side, then the judge ultimately decides on unresolved issues such as property division, spousal and child support, visitation, and child custody. The judge grants the divorce once he or she has arrived at a decision.
Each party has a right to an appeal after a divorce if they disagree with the judge's ruling. Take note that the timelines for an appeal are very limited and differ according to state.
Each divorce is unique, and the entire process can take anywhere from a few months to several years. Of course, the more a couple cooperates with one another, the faster and smoother the divorce is likely to go.


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By Sgt. Coltin Heller, 109th MPAD, USD-N PAOMay 19, 2011
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq - Many U.S. Soldiers draw from experiences from outside their military lives to add to their ever-expanding wealth of knowledge, becoming effective assets to their unit and one day effective leaders of Soldiers.
Pfc. Shawn Phillips, an infantryman assigned to 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, attached to 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, earned the title of "Ironhorse Strong" Soldier of the Week for using his training in martial arts and Modern Army Combatives to advance Iraqi Emergency Service Unit soldiers' skills at multiple combined check points near Kirkuk.
"He taught (Iraqi Security Forces) self defense skills," said Sgt. 1st Class Carl Barton, a platoon leader with 2nd Bn., 12th Cav. Regt. "He taught them how to disarm hostiles as well as how to defend against being disarmed."
Phillips, a native of Cheyenne, Wyo., took the lead during close quarters combat training, teaching Iraqi soldiers how to defend themselves, conduct personnel and vehicle searches, and how to use minimum force necessary to control the situation.
"He's a sponge, soaking up anything he learns and readily gives it to others," said Barton, who hails from Rock Springs, Wyo. "He's motivated to train and assist in any way he can, and is the first to volunteer to train the ISF at combined checkpoints."
Phillips also used his experience to teach ESU how to use various weapon systems, demonstrating how to break down the weapons as well proper fire techniques.
"As my gunner, (Phillips) went over all the weapons systems and other infantry battle drills that we use ourselves," said Staff Sgt. Rahamane Cisse, squad leader, 2nd Bn., 12th Cav. Regt., and a native of the Ivory Coast, West Africa.
In addition to performing his duties in an outstanding manner, Phillips also stands above his peers as the only junior enlisted Soldier to achieve a perfect score of 300 on the Army Physical Fitness Test, Cisse said.
"He's one of the younger guys in the platoon, but right away when he got here he set himself above his peers and has been a role model," said Cisse. "Having a high (Physical Training) score is just another way he does that."


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Jared Kushner's Puck Building Plans Still Too Ugly
The residential penthouse isn't looking good to the Landmark Preservation Commission.
Donald Trump's son-in-law and New York Observer owner Jared Kushner was rebuffed today for the second time by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which ruled that his plan to add a residential penthouse to the Puck Building is an eyesore. "It's too tall, it's much too visible and what you see is too aggressive," remarked one commission member. The executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation is of the opinion, meanwhile, that the neighborhood staple on Houston and Lafayette Street "should not be sacrificed for a wealthy developer's passing fancy to add an enormous and unnecessarily visible penthouse addition on top." Kushner's company responded through gritted teeth in a statement: "We look forward to continuing the conversation." In an example of the 1 percent not getting everything they want, at least not expediently, even with connections, it's worth noting that Kushner's primary architect was previously the chairwoman of the Landmarks Commission.


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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup (AGL). The Workgroup will facilitate widespread industry collaboration that advances automotive device development, providing a community reference platform that companies can use for creating products.
Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan and Toyota are among the first carmakers to participate in the Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup. Other members include Aisin AW, DENSO Corporation, Feuerlabs, Fujitsu, HARMAN, Intel, NEC, NVIDIA, Reaktor, Renesas, Samsung, Symbio, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), and Tieto. For comments from a variety of these companies please visit: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012/09/supporting-comments-linux-foundation-announces-automotive-grade
A major shift is underway in the automotive industry. Carmakers are using new technologies to meet consumer expectations for the same connectivity in cars as what is today the norm in homes and offices. From dashboard computing to In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI), automobiles are becoming the latest wireless devices — on wheels. By leveraging the $10B collective investment (Value of Linux:https://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/publications/estimatinglinux.html) already made in the Linux kernel and taking advantage of the technology contributions from the consumer electronics and enterprise computing markets, carmakers can use Linux and open source technologies to accelerate innovation.
The Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup will work with the Tizen project as the reference distribution optimized for a broad set of automotive applications ranging from Instrumentation Cluster to In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) and more. The Linux Foundation will host this effort, providing a neutral environment for collaboration among the Linux kernel community, other open source software communities and the automotive industry.
The reference platform will use the upstream first policy and support the long lifecycle of cars. This will allow for ongoing support for the products built with Automotive Grade Linux, as well as support for critical features such as fast boot.
"This workgroup will leverage Tizen to create a Debian or Fedora-like project for the automotive industry," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. "Like those community distributions, the Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup will rapidly feed cutting-edge technologies to automakers and their partners who can build Linux-based products for the newest cars."
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The Linux Foundation today is also announcing that HARMAN and Jaguar Land Rover are becoming Silver members of the organization. These companies recognize the value of Linux in enabling the future of car technologies and aim to maximize their investment in the platform through Linux Foundation membership.
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I must be missing something simple. No matter how I configure it, the test always fails.
Can somebody walk me through this? And can ya make it idiot proof for this idiot? :))
Use passive FTP mode - to check or not to check...that is the question
FTP hostname: - I am using the same shared hosting server as my site - do I use localhost or http://ftp.mydomain.com?
FTP username: I created a new one just for this purpose
FTP password: I created a new one just for this purpose
FTP path: Is this a server path, an html one or an ftp. one?
Replace site's hostname with: I created a subdomain called CDN.mydomain.com and it points to a folder called /CDN - I created an FTP login that strictly has access to only that folder. I also tried to give the login full access, but that did not work neither.
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"Roman Nimes" Nîmes by antistar
Nîmes Travel Guide: 237 reviews and 532 photos
Nimes is probably most famous for its Roman history, and it has several very well preserved and stunning Roman sites, some right bang in the city center, like the impressive amphitheatre, and some just a short journey outside, like the unmistakeable Pont du Gard. However, surrounding this Roman wonders is a fine city in its own right. Nimes is a pleasant city to walk around, and apart from the Roman tourist attractions, it has a lovely old town center, and the delightful Jardins de la Fontaine, an 18th century park fed by graceful waterways on the northern edge of the city.
This city has to be one of France's premier attractions.
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The Amphitheater, the Pont du Gard and the excellent youth hostel.
Nothing in particular. The city is one of my favourites.
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Tim, I've just been having another look at your Nimes tips (after eight or nine years), because I will be in Avignon next week and hope to fit in a day trip to Nimes.
Im considering including Nimes on my trip this fall. Your pages have been helpful, thank you
Interesting, I'm heading there next month, thanks for sharing. Cheers, Ian
An interesting look at Nimes, thank you. We found it very pleasant also, but could not get into the arena because it was closed for some bicycle event.
Recently got back from the Dordogne and it was great Nimes is now on my wish list
Thank you for your photos and positive comments about Nimes, France. I plan to visit there in a couple weeks and I will look for the Roman buidlings and the Jardins de la Fontaine and waterways :) Take Care, Todd
Nimes' Roman influence is remarkable. Thanks for the great tips. If it's not that far by train from Paris this is a great daytrip. I'm also impressed with your photos-really nice. Thanks.
Great page! Nimes seems really nice. I loved the pics and comments.
Nice page about an attractive town. I cycled through Nimes years ago, and am hoping to go back soon, maybe even this summer.
great tips, very helpful thanks.
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Syria crisis: Fast facts
• 13.5 million people in Syria need humanitarian assistance due to a violent civil war.1
• 4.8 million Syrians are refugees, and 6.5 million are displaced within Syria; half of those affected are children.2
• Children affected by the Syrian conflict are at risk of becoming ill, malnourished, abused, or exploited. Millions have been forced to quit school. See photo slideshow.
• Most Syrian refugees remain in the Middle East, in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt; slightly more than 10 percent of the refugees have fled to Europe.3
• Peace negotiations continue despite a fraying and piecemeal ceasefire.
Why are Syrians fleeing their homes?
• Violence: Since the Syrian civil war began, as many as 386,000 people have been killed, including nearly 14,000 children, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The war has become more deadly since foreign powers joined the conflict.
• Collapsed infrastructure: Within Syria, healthcare, education systems, and other infrastructure have been destroyed; the economy is shattered.
• Children's safety: Syrian children — the nation's hope for a better future — have lost loved ones, suffered injuries, missed years of schooling, and witnessed unspeakable violence and brutality. Warring parties forcibly recruit children to serve as fighters, human shields, and in support roles, according to the U.S. State Department.
What are the refugees' greatest needs?
• Syrians fleeing conflict need all the basics to sustain their lives: food, clothing, health assistance, shelter, and household and hygiene items.
• They need reliable supplies of clean water, as well as sanitation facilities.
• Children need a safe environment and a chance to play and go to school.
• Adults need employment options in case of long-term displacement.
• Prayer: Learn how you can pray for Syrian refugees. Join with others as we #PrayForRefugees.
• Compassion: Read this article in Christianity Today by World Vision President, Rich Stearns about treating refugees with the compassion of Christ.