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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 05 Jan 2012
The Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) has been known for some years for its ability to mimic flatfish, lionfish and seasnakes. A recent discovery in Indonesia adds a whole new twist to this story. The Black-marble Jawfish (Stalix cf. histrio) mimics the Mimic Octopus. This is believed to allow the small fish to forage in relative safety well away from its burrow.
The Harlequin Jawfish, Stalix histrio, occurs in Australian waters. It is known from a few locations in northern Queensland. A second species of Stalix, the Yellow Jawfish, S. flavida, occurs in north-western waters of Western Australia. More information on jawfishes.
Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & G.R. Allen. 2006. Fishes. In Beesley, P.L. & A. Wells. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35. ABRS & CSIRO Publishing: Australia. parts 1-3, pages 1-2178.
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Networks Campaign for Higher Spending & Taxes
Page One
Budget Busting
"Many in Congress and elsewhere
doubt that President Bush can deliver on his campaign promises for
vastly improved quality of life programs, at the same time reducing the
huge federal deficit and stick to his no new taxes pledge," Dan
Rather told viewers on February 9, just hours before Bush delivered his
budget address to Congress. Sure enough, over the next week the media
did its best to make Rather's case.
The morning after Bush's speech, the
figure for inflation at the wholesale level increased, leading a couple
of large banks to raise their prime interest rate. "All this
undermines the rosy economic scenario that President Bush presented last
night, a scenario based on low inflation and declining interest
rates," NBC's Mike Jensen warned on Nightly News.
"President Bush sees more people and companies earning more money
and paying more taxes without an increase in the tax rate," Jensen
continued. "But," NBC's business correspondent countered,
"most experts say that's not likely to happen."
Jensen laid out a scenario that ended in
a tax hike: "Inflation will force Alan Greenspan of the Federal
Reserve to push interest rates higher. Loan rates would go up. That
would slow down housing...and then the economy as a whole. And with
that, the government would collect less money in taxes and the budget
deficit would grow. It would take new taxes to reduce it." CNN's
Frank Sesno relayed the same figure that alarmed Jensen, but noted
"some economists say it's a fluke and underlying inflationary
pressure remains moderate."
Simultaneously, CBS started the drumbeat
for more social spending. "Since 1981," Bob McNamara lamented,
"budget cuts have taken school lunches away from two million
children and nutrition experts today fear that if President Bush's
budget doesn't add up, food assistance to children will be cut
again." The next day CBS' Wyatt Andrews reported Bush proposed
spending "a billion dollars, in total, for the homeless," but
"the director of this home says that's nothing compared to the $30
billion the government used to spend on actual housing." Neither
gave anyone from the administration a chance to respond.
What's the root cause of this supposed
spending restraint problem? The February 20 Time magazine
reiterated the position held by many reporters: "The Bush campaign
strategists--with the candidate's active complicity--burdened the new
President with an obdurate stance on taxes."
Revolving Door
Week in Review View.
An early February shake-up of New York Times editors moved Erik
Eckholm from science and health editing responsibilities to control of
the "Week in Review" section. In 1979 and 1980 Eckholm served
on the State Department policy planning staff. He helped formulate
Carter Administration international oil and energy policy.
In the Morning Again.
Bob Ferrante, Director of Communications for the Democratic National
Committee from 1986 until the party released him just before its 1988
convention, has joined National Public Radio as Executive Producer of
morning news. He'll oversee the weekday Morning Edition and
Saturday and Sunday Weekend Edition. Ferrante's worked similar
hours before. In 1983 he was Executive Producer of the CBS Morning
News, becoming Senior Producer of the CBS election news unit the
next year.
A Little Move.
Christopher Little, Newsweek magazine President, has resigned
after 16 months to be President of Cowles Magazines Inc,. publishers of Country
Journal and Bow Hunter, among others. During the late
1960's Little was the top aide to U.S. Representative Bob Eckhardt, a
Texas Democrat.
Not So New at The New
Republic. After the departure of Charles Krauthammer The
New Republic (TNR) offered two former staffers a return engagement.
Hendrik Hertzberg, TNR Editor from 1981 to 1985 and Mickey Kaus, the
magazine's West Coast reporter in the early 1980's, have become Senior
Editors. Hertzberg was a Newsweek reporter in the 1960's and
later wrote speeches for President Carter. Kaus, a Senior Writer at Newsweek
since mid-1987, drafted speeches for Democratic Senator Ernest
Hollings in 1983-84. In a 1988 Newsweek article Kaus boasted:
"I was a long-haired Ivy League leftist in the late '60's, and I'm
still basically proud of what I did then."
Bush Workers. Kristin
Clark Taylor, a member of the USA Today editorial board and a
Gannett business reporter between 1982 and 1987, is now Director of
Media Relations at the White House....Loye Miller, a Newhouse news
service White House and political reporter from 1979 to 1985 who
previously worked for Knight Ridder, is now Director of Public Affairs
for the Justice Department. He served as Press Secretary for Education's
Bill Bennett until last Fall....Richard Burt, national security
correspondent for The New York Times from 1977 to 1981, travels
from Bonn, where he was Reagan's Ambassador to West Germany, to Geneva
where he'll be chief strategic arms negotiator....Edwin Dale, a long
time Times reporter who was Assistant Director of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) until he left in 1987 for a Commerce
Department position, is back at OMB as Director of External Affairs.
Up from Today.
Margie Lehrman, Washington Producer of Today since 1983, is the
new Deputy Washington Bureau Chief under Tim Russert, a former aide to
New York's liberal Governor Mario Cuomo. Lehrman worked as a press
assistant to Republican Senator Robert Griffin of Michigan, before
joining NBC News in 1979 as a researcher.
Janet Cooke Award
Easing the Soviets Out
On February 15, the Soviet Union finally
ended their nine-year occupation of Afghanistan. But in the course of
almost a decade the Afghan people learned a bitter lesson -- the price
of freedom can be very high. It was a victory for the mujahideen freedom
fighters and Western military support, but since the 1979 invasion 1.25
million people, mostly innocent civilians, have died. The Soviet
presence caused more than five million Afghans to flee their homeland:
two million others live within the boundaries as internal refugees, with
virtually no means of support or subsistence. In short, more than half
of the pre-war population has been either killed or displaced by the
decade's events.
The recent State Department Report on
Human Rights documents frequent cases of political killing,
disappearances, torture, cruel and degrading treatment, arbitrary arrest
and detention over the nine year occupation.
As for the future, it will take years to
rebuild. War has savaged the country's infrastructure. More than half of
the country's 20,000 villages and communities have been destroyed, many
falling victim to the retreating Soviet army's scorched earth policy.
Afghanistan's roads, irrigation system, and medical facilities have been
gutted. Those that fled the war are reluctant to return: ten to 30
million mines laid by the Soviets and the Afghan regime are sure to maim
tens of thousands more even after the war has officially ended.
But the bitter lesson that Afghans
learned was not the lesson two TV networks relayed. Coverage of the
atrocities and brutal nature of the occupation escaped most CBS
Evening News and CNN PrimeNews stories in the weeks
leading up to the pullout. Instead, CBS and CNN spent much of their
airtime looking upon the Soviet occupation uncritically while impugning
the freedom fighters. For this they earn the March Janet Cooke Award.
While the Soviets had engaged in weeks of
saturation bombing and offenses against civilian villages before their
pullout, just four of 14 CBS stories made any reference to these
offenses. But plenty of time was given to supposed "rebel"
indiscretions. On January 31 reporter Barry Petersen ignored Marxist
atrocities, offering instead scenes of the mujahideen executing
government recruits. His conclusion: "Afghan soldiers will face a
situation as brutal as any the Soviets are leaving behind....Many fear
this is just a taste of what is to come once the Soviets are gone."
How did Petersen view the mujahideen's
efforts and American support? On February 14, Petersen didn't see the
struggle as a fight for freedom but as one more battle in the
"Great Game" that conquering nations have played in
Afghanistan: "The Americans have given millions of dollars in
sophisticated weapons to the mujahideen, an easy way for America to make
the Soviets bleed that may now backfire. For any government to succeed
here it must be...fiercely independent, unwilling to follow the lead of
any other country. That may be all that American' millions will
ultimately buy."
The same pattern held for CNN. Of 38
stories or anchor reads, only seven made any reference to Soviet
atrocities. Moscow Bureau Chief Steve Hurst produced ten reports on the
Soviet withdrawal that aired on PrimeNews. Hurst made three
passing references to Soviet bombing and abuses. His February 3 report
did document mujahideen claims that the Soviets have dropped exploding
toys meant specifically to maim young children.
But most of his reporting time was
devoted to how "the rebels keep up their harassing attacks,"
including how "rebel" ambushes and blockades of supply convoys
bound for Kabul are causing hardship for the Afghan people, and
"rebel" rocket attacks that are hurting civilians in Kabul.
In two pieces he even lent legitimacy to
the Soviet invasion. On January 27 he reported that the invasion was
"instigated partly out of fear of this kind of fundamentalism on
the Soviet borders with its own Moslem republics."
On February 9 Hurst worried that the fall
of the Marxist regime would be detrimental to women's rights. Ignoring
the repression of the past eight years, he concluded: "The army has
controlled this beautifully rugged landscape with the help of women
right from the revolution. It's the women of this country who have the
most to lose if this Marxist revolution fails -- if the government falls
to the fundamentalist Moslem rebels. A woman's place in such a society
would be back under the head to toe covering of the shaderi, cooking and
bearing children."
Reached in Moscow by MediaWatch,
Hurst stood by his story, defending it as a legitimate point of view to
express: "All I said was...that these women who support the
Marxists and are opposed to the fundamentalist society are the people
who have a great deal to lose."
Part of CNN's imbalance stems from where
they broadcast. All of Hurst's reports originated from
communist-controlled territory. Jonathan Mann reported twice from
Pakistan on a conference to form an interim government and once on the
refugee problem, but did not accompany the rebels in the field. CBS did
much the same. Hurst told MediaWatch that he
spent over three weeks trying to get into the mujahideen countryside and
admitted "if I had been in the rebel-controlled areas obviously my
pictures and my reports would have been entirely different."
"I believe the stories about
atrocities committed by the Soviets," declared Hurst, "But I
was not where the Soviet atrocities happened...How can you expect me to
report something I don't see?" Were Hurst's stories balanced? He
argued:"I do not think I was biased. I do feel access I had
prevented me from seeing what was going on on the other side. However, I
made reference whenever I could to what I knew was going on on the other
But ABC and NBC did manage to gain access
to mujahideen areas and as a result their coverage was thorough and
significantly more balanced. NBC's Rick Davis filed seven reports from
non-Soviet areas and presented a humane, just view of the mujahideen.
That was not the characterization of the "rebels" from the
Kabul regime, and it showed on CBS and CNN. Even worse, both networks
failed to inform viewers their reporters were restricted to
communist-controlled locations, which inevitably skewed their
Gender Benders.
CBS News valiantly resists the testimony of their own polls in
describing the popularity of Republican Presidents among women. On
January 22 anchor Susan Spencer reported that the latest CBS/New
York Times poll found that three out of five women believe
President Bush cares about their needs.
Nonetheless CBS gave reporter James
Hattori two minutes to air the views of "many women who feel
disenfranchised by the Reagan years." Hattori charged that
"Bush, like President Reagan before him, doesn't appeal to women as
much as men. In fact, he attracted only half of all women voters last
November," as if that were not enough. (The CBS/Times poll
showed Bush won the women's vote, 50 to 49 percent.)
Past surveys by Hattori's own network's
demonstrate the speciousness of his argument. According to CBS/Times
poll figures, Reagan won the women's vote in 1980 (47 percent to 45 for
Carter, 7 for Anderson) and won even more dramatically in 1984 (56
percent for Reagan to 44 for Mondale), even though Mondale selected a
woman as his running mate.
Stahl's Towering Source.
"Some of the President's own advisors say the Tower situation is
being poorly managed at the White House," Lesley Stahl proclaimed
during the February 8 CBS Evening News, "and they blame
chief-of-staff John Sununu." Stahl's source, however, was a man who
could hardly be considered an advisor to President Bush: Jody Powell,
President Carter's Press Secretary.
Stahl immediately followed her accusation
against Sununu with Powell, who explained, "One of the things you
always want to do if you possibly can in a situation like this is keep
the President out of the line of fire. President Bush, unfortunately,
now seems to be in the line of fire."
Disdain for Capital Gains.
NBC Nightly News examined Bush's proposed capital gains tax
rate reduction on February 18. Here's how anchor Connie Chung introduced
the story: "If you lower the tax rates for investors, everyone will
prosper, or at least that's the philosophy that President Bush, and a
lot of wealthy people espouse. This would be achieved in the form of
lower capital gains taxes, and everyone would prosper, if it weren't for
the fact that a lot of people believe it won't work." Who said NBC
News is biased?
Ethics Police. "Ethical
questions are muddling the central message of Mr. Bush's first thirteen
days in office," CBS' Lesley Stahl charged on February 2.
"This is an administration that started out with a President
talking very seriously about ethics," ABC's Brit Hume announced the
same day, "only to have three nominees about whom questions of
ethics and propriety are immediately raised." President Bush
emphasized the importance of ethics in government, and within days the
networks were trying to embarrass the new administration.
Aside from Tower, who were the nominees
the reporters saw as sources of embarrassment? Hume and Stahl made an
issue of $67,000 in speaking fees new H.U.D Secretary Jack Kemp earned
above congressional limits. Although Hume admitted Kemp solved the
problem by returning the money, the story still presented Kemp as
blemishing Bush.
Both also focused on HHS Secretary Louis
Sullivan's request to remain on the payroll of Morehouse College.
Sullivan, however, had only asked to be exempted from one of the
administration's own internal guidelines, an action that can hardly be
viewed as grossly improper.
The charge against Clayton Yeutter,
Bush's Agriculture Secretary was even more trivial. Yeutter, Stahl
claimed, had "apparently violated ethics rules when he was the
guest of honor at a reception hosted by Philip Morris, the Tobacco
A Rather Flawed China.
When President Bush arrived in China on February 25, two network anchors
could hardly contain themselves as they heaped praises on the Chinese
regime. "Today's China," ABC's Carole Simson gushed, "is
new, improved and a lot more American." Dan Rather declared:
"This is a vastly different China. A huge portrait of Mao still
hangs from the front gate of the Forbidden City. Mao's successors have
kept the picture, but disregarded the policies." CBS' Bruce Morton
discussed "new freedom in the arts," symbolized by an artist
who "is showing a sculpture made of condoms in an avant-garde show
the police first closed, then let re-open."
NBC's Tom Brokaw and CNN's Gene Randall,
however, shed light on the real China by interviewing the communist
regime's leading dissident, Fang Li Zhi. ABC and CBS didn't mention Fang
until the next night when officials blocked him from attending a banquet
for President Bush, providing them with an opportunity to embarrass
Bush. According to Jacqueline Adams of CBS: "After tonight's
incident, George Bush may wish he'd spent more time criticizing leaders
here than courting them."
Strait Talk on Health Care?
As part of its "American Agenda" series, ABC's World News
Tonight looked at the problem of health care for uninsured
Americans. Their suggested solution? Canadian-style socialized medicine,
a "model" explained by reporter George Strait who left viewers
confused. He said the Canadians have "a system that works."
But then he told of shortages, closed city emergency rooms, and waiting
lists "so long that those who can afford it go to the U.S. for
treatment." Demand for health care, Straight noted, has sent
"costs skyrocketing," but he later claimed "the Canadian
system is being looked as a way of controlling costs in the U.S."
Despite the drawbacks, Strait asserted
that "for the vast majority," of Canadians, "when it
comes to routine care, there is no waiting and there are few
complaints." Strait praised the Canadian solution: "It's a
source of pride and comfort. They tolerate the flaws....because health
care is seen as a social commitment in Canada, a commitment that America
is not yet ready to make."
Far East Fetched Fears.
In the midst of TV network focus on Japanese culture and society during
Bush's trip to the nation, ABC's World News Tonight offered
viewers a scary look at Japanese investment in the U.S. "America is
in hock to the Japanese in a big way," reporter Richard Threlkeld
warned on February 20. Citing the $50 billion in Treasury bonds bought
by Japanese investors every year, he wondered: "Could our Japanese
creditors someday subject America to a kind of economic blackmail?"
Threlkeld featured liberal Congressman
Charles Schumer, who predicted: "If we keep spending more than we
save, the Japanese will own us, and we'll have no one to blame but
ourselves." Threlkeld added: "And then, when Japan says
'jump,' America will have to say, 'how high?'"
It's ABC News that's doing all the
jumping -- to paranoid conclusions. Between 1982 and 1987 the leader in
foreign purchases of U.S. corporate assets was Great Britain, which
bought 40 percent, compared to a mere five percent purchased by Japan.
Unfair Flogging of the FBI.
USA Today on TV began its January 30 broadcast with an alarming
story about "the FBI and what it may know about you." The FBI
keeps tabs on suspected subversive activity by both extremes of the
political spectrum. But USA Today really wasn't concerned about
the average U.S. citizen, just the most seemingly innocent left-wing
activists who have been investigated.
From 1983-1985, the FBI opened over 700
terrorist files on those it suspected were connected to groups involved
in terrorist activities, especially pro-Sandinista organizations. USA
Today did its best to sanitize these leftist activists as
"nuns, members of Congress, and college students."
Continuing to discredit FBI policy, USA
Today featured two people who were interrogated by the FBI,
including a professor who traveled to Nicaragua complained "we were
telling people that our government was carrying on a war...that are
killing civilians. That's all we said."
Magnus noted that the FBI "claims it
only investigates people suspected of breaking a law," but
countered: "these examples, if true, would certainly contradict
that." Apparently, USA Today believes that working on
behalf of a hostile foreign power should be above government suspicion.
Missing Seoul. "We
stopped in Korea last weekend on our way to Japan," ABC anchor
Peter Jennings reported on February 27. "We found that when it
comes to the Korean-American relationship, there is room for
improvement, to say the least," Jennings declared as he narrated a
long report charging that rioting anti-American students "represent
the leading edge of a more general discontent." He detailed
supposed anti-Americanism, stating "many Koreans believe the U.S.
is standing in the way of a reunified nation," and "other
Koreans deeply resent what they believe is American interference in
Korean affairs."
Citing the Kwan Ju incident, in which 200
civilians were killed by South Korean troops, Jennings claimed "a
generation of Koreans has grown up holding the U.S. responsible....for
the worst abuses of their government."
But if Jennings had bothered to talk with
fewer anti-American sources, he might have produced a balanced story.
Daryl Plunk, the Heritage Foundation's expert on Korea, says the U.S.
troop presence is overwhelmingly supported, because Koreans still
understand the communist threat from the North. "Overall,"
Plunk explained to MediaWatch, "Korea is
an extremely pro-American society." When it comes to balanced
coverage of a loyal American ally, ABC News has room for improvement, to
say the least.
Louisiana Jones. When
former KKK leader David Duke was elected to the Louisiana State
Legislature, NBC's Kenley Jones went looking for a scapegoat to blame.
"The Republican party has threatened to censure Duke because of his
past association with the Klan and Nazi groups," Jones explained
during the February 20 Nightly News, "but one independent
political analyst says the Bush presidential campaign created a climate
which helped elect Duke." To support his position, Jones brought on
Joe Walker, an "independent political analyst", who claimed
"they ran a campaign that emphasized heavily the Horton spot, you
know, and there was clearly a racist overtone to that, I don't care what
anybody says."
But just how independent is Walker?
According to the Associated Press, the Democrats retained Joe Walker
during the 1988 presidential campaign to conduct a poll for the
Dukakis-Bentsen campaign in Louisiana.
Prime News for Soviet
News. CNN achieved a broadcasting milestone on February 27. PrimeNews
presented a story about the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan from Al Gurnov,
a Soviet TV reporter. Gurnov roamed Moscow observing, "The war in
Afghanistan is over, but at what price? Let's ask the people."
Included among the Muscovites' comments was a soldier who dutifully
spouted: "It was our internationalist duty...it was not an
invasion, it was an effort to help protect the revolution launched by
the people of Afghanistan." CNN is trying to offer viewers a better
perspective on world affairs than provided by the other networks, but
giving Soviet propagandists free air time?
Allied Rights. In its
annual report on human rights released February 7, the State Department
voiced muted criticism for U.S. ally Israel, including praise for its
democratic government and "vigorous free press." Each network
evening broadcast, however, highlighted the section on Israeli
infringements of human rights in the hostile occupied territories. CBS
ran two stories, one from the Arab perspective.
But the State Department report included
as many pages for the Soviet Union as for Israel, plus reports on all of
the East Bloc, Nicaragua, and Libya. On CBS Dan Rather noted State's
faint praise for the Soviets' "remarkable moves toward
freedom," neglecting to add that State also said there has been
"no fundamental shift in Moscow's approach to human rights,"
and that "the KGB has been subjected to only a modicum of glasnost
and perestroika."
ABC ignored the Soviet abuses completely.
NBC mentioned the report and then offered a story on a tour of a Soviet
mental hospital taken by Sandy Gilmour. But no one at NBC mentioned what
CNN's Bernard Shaw alone noted: that the State Department reported
"there are still some Soviet citizens imprisoned as psychiatric
patients after political arrests." The next day Shaw noted
Assistant Secretary of State Richard Schifter's concern for "the
world's worst human rights violators, namely North Korea, Cuba, and
Rights Wrongs in Print.
A quick read of the newspapers finds the same skew. Under the headline,
"U.S. says Israel Abridges Rights in the Territories," The
New York Times gave Israel 7 column inches. Beneath the subheading
"Liberalization by Moscow," the Times filled four
inches before mentioning "the Soviet Union still needed
'institutional guarantees'" of individual rights. The
Washington Post's February 8 headline read "U.S. Asserts
Israel Violates Palestinians' Rights." Twenty-one column inches
went to detailing Israeli violations, one inch to the Soviets. Both
papers slid bare mention of Nicaragua into their final paragraphs.
Wolf in Specialist's Clothing.
Richard Barnet of Washington's radical-left Institute for Policy Studies
made at least three network appearances recently, but viewers were never
alerted to his radical views. When he appeared on ABC's Good Morning
America on January 24 to discuss the nomination of John Tower, the
screen read only "Defense Specialist, Institute for Policy
In an Afghanistan story on the January 30
CBS Evening News, only "Institute for Policy Studies"
appeared under his name. About two weeks later on the February 14 Evening
News, CBS again failed to add an ideological label as Barnet
charged: "By giving them [the Afghan rebels] the weapons, we not
only prolonged the war, but we created a political condition that made
it less likely, much harder, to achieve a settlement."
Fabricated Facts
In May 1986 the left-wing Christic
Institute brought a $24 million suit against a group of Contra leaders,
U.S. military officers and members of government agencies, alleging they
participated in assassinations, terrorism, drug smuggling and gun
running in Central America. The suit's damage to the public image of the
Contras was amplified by April 19 and May 17 PBS Frontline
shows last year which explained the Christic theory and thereby helped
legitimize their allegations. The programs earned the June 1988 Janet
Cooke Award.
Leslie Cockburn, a former CBS News
producer who put together the May 17 program, champions Christic
Institute lawyer Daniel Sheehan in her book, Out of Control: The
Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the
Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection. Even when
Federal District Court Judge James King threw out the groundless suit in
June 1988, Frontline Senior Producer Mike Sullivan defended the
shows as presenting "credible information."
On February 3, Judge King awarded General
John Singlaub, Contra leader Adolfo Calero, General Richard Secord and
11 other defendants $1 million in attorney fees and court costs. King
decided the Christic suit was "based upon unsubstantiated rumor and
speculation." King accused Sheehan of "abuse of the judicial
process." Sheehan, the judge added, "must have known prior to
suing that they had no competent evidence to substantiate the theories
alleged in their complaint."
Will Frontline now make amends
by running a show revealing the lies and deceit of the Christic
Institute? Frontline has received a letter from MediaWatch
requesting just such an enlightening examination.
Looking for the
Liberal Label
Washington political insiders may be able
to identify the ideological orientation of any group mentioned in that
morning's newspapers. But readers across the country who find their news
in national magazines and in reports distributed by major newspapers
rely on the labels applied by reporters. Labels enable the reader to
consider the ideological views of newsmakers' opinions and weigh them
with a grain of salt. By contrast, the absence of labels can give a
perception of objectivity and reliability.
To learn whether reporters with major
pring outlets apply ideological tags in a balanced manner, MediaWatch
used Nexis news data retrieval system to survey every 1987
and 1988 news story mentioning three groups each on the right and the
left. The MediaWatch Study included The
Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time,
and U.S. News & World Report. MediaWatch
analysts counted only ideological tags attached by reporters.
The results show an astonishing contrast
in the treatment of liberal and conservative organizations. Reporters
labeled the conservative Heritage Foundation more than 35 times as often
as the liberal Brookings Institution. The conservative Concerned Women
of America got tagged almost 20 times more frequently than the liberal
National Organization for Women. On judicial issues Ralph Neas, the
liberal head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights attracted less
than a tenth of the labels attached to the conservative Patrick McGuigan
of the Free Congress Foundation.
In total, the MediaWatch Study
found the three conservative groups were tagged an average of 58 percent
of the time while the liberals were labeled merely two percent of the
time. To put it another way, the liberal groups escaped identification
in 49 of 50 mentions.
Think Tanks: Heritage and
Brookings: Perhaps the national media's favorite source of
expert opinion, the Brookings Institution was labeled just 10 times in
737 news stories (1.4%). Five of those labels came from 152 Los
Angeles Times stories. The Washington Post applied a label
merely 3 times in 200 stories (1.5%). In 270 of 271 mentions (99.6%), The
New York Times failed to label Brookings. Time magazine
applied a label once in 39 stories, while U.S. News (45) and Newsweek
(30) never did.
By dramatic contrast, Heritage was
accurately described as "conservative" or a similar term in
217 of 370 stories (58.6%). The Los Angeles Times attached a
conservative label the most, 71 times in 79 stories (89.9%). Time
was second with 13 labels in 19 stories (68.4%), followed by The New
York Times (74 out of 126, or 58.7%), U.S. News and World
Report (7 out of 14, or 50%), and the Post (51 out of 129, for
39.5%). Newsweek refrained from issuing a label in all three
mentions of the think tank, but did describe Heritage as an
"ideological guerrilla outfit" which could advance
"politically outlandish proposals." Time writers
Richard Hornik and Michael Duffy best demonstrated the double standard
in a December 5, 1988 story: "Neither Bush nor the nation will risk
serious damage if he ignores the recommendations of groups ranging from
the archconservative Heritage Foundation to the Brookings
Women's Groups: National
Organization for Women (NOW) and Concerned Women of America (CWA):
The liberal NOW also escaped categorization, labeled a mere 10 times in
421 stories (2.4%). The Los Angeles Times issued six labels in
166 stories, five "liberal" and one "mainstream." In
124 stories, the New York Times never once placed a liberal
label on NOW. Out of 100 stories in the Post, two included the
term "liberal." Among magazines, Time used no labels
in 10 stories, while Newsweek in 9 and U.S. News in 8
applied "liberal" once each.
On the other hand, CWA got labeled 25
times in just 61 news accounts (41%). The Los Angeles Times
issued the lions share of labels, describing CWA as
"conservative" five times, "right-wing" on four
occasions, and "New Right" once. In six labels over 16 stories
in The New York Times, three were "conservative," two
were "strongly conservative," and one was "New
Right." In 17 Post stories, all eight labels were
"conservative." Though NOW claims 160,000 members CWA about
600,000, it's worth noting reporters mentioned the liberal group four
times more often.
Judicial Experts: Patrick
McGuigan and Ralph Neas: The Bork fight made McGuigan and Neas
often-quoted sources, but reporters were far from balanced in adding
ideological tags to each. Less than four percent of pieces referring to
Neas, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) described
him as "liberal." McGuigan of the Free Congress Foundation,
however, was identified as conservative nearly 75% of the time.
The New York Times in 39 stories
and the Post in 50 reports never called Neas
"liberal." In fact, both papers referred to him as
"Republican" on one occasion. The Los Angeles Times
identified Neas as "liberal" just once in 23 stories. U.S.
News called Neas "liberal" once in 5 stories, Time
labeled the LCCR "liberal" once in four stories, and Newsweek
avoided any labels whatsoever in 4 pieces.
Yet, in 42 stories mentioning McGuigan,
either he or Free Congress was labeled conservative, 15 times more
frequently than Neas or LCCR. The Los Angeles Times added a
"conservative" label in all six mentions. U.S. News
did the same, four times in four stories. The Post, which never
saw a need to label Neas, labeled McGuigan 15 times in 19 stories. Newsweek's
only mention referred to him as part of the "religious right."
This imbalance demonstrates that
reporters are unable to issue ideological labels in a rational manner.
If reporters call conservative groups "conservative" then it's
only logical that they label liberal groups "liberal." Until
they do, reporters will continue to distort the public's perception of
sources quoted in "news" stories.
MediaWatch also
checked two other smaller groups and found similar results.
Reporters felt compelled to issue a
"conservative" label every time they mentioned the Center
for Judicial Studies, another group that received attention during the
Bork hearings. The Post went 4 for 4, U.S. News 2 for 2,
The New York Times 4 for 4, and the Los Angeles Times 1
for 1.
Reporters felt compelled to issue a
"conservative" label every time they mentioned the Center
for Judicial Studies, another group that received attention during the
Bork hearings. The Post went 4 for 4, U.S. News 2 for 2,
The New York Times 4 for 4, and the Los Angeles Times 1
for 1.
The Washington Post published
articles with Brookings bylines 17 times, compared to 9 for IPS and 2
for Heritage. Of the 17 Brookings articles, the Post relied on
14 different authors. The New York Times also printed 17
Brookings produced articles from 14 authors, in addition to 6 from
Heritage and 2 from IPS.
The Washington Post published
articles with Brookings bylines 17 times, compared to 9 for IPS and 2
for Heritage. Of the 17 Brookings articles, the Post relied on
14 different authors. The New York Times also printed 17
Brookings produced articles from 14 authors, in addition to 6 from
Heritage and 2 from IPS.
The Los Angeles Times relied on
Brookings for 38 editorials and book reviews, IPS was second with 11
followed by eight for Heritage.
The Los Angeles Times relied on
Brookings for 38 editorials and book reviews, IPS was second with 11
followed by eight for Heritage.
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Employee theft may not be many brands' No. 1 challenge in the ever-tenuous economic environment, but it's a threat that exists in many forms. And quick serves across the industry are doing something about it, with the help of biometric point-of-sale systems.
For the last five years, healthy beverage brand Smoothie King has used a fingerprint scanner systemwide to help establish employee accountability and solid cash-handling practices, says David Tornabene, vice president of operations for the 600-plus-unit brand.
He says the fingerprint scanner helps remedy the risks that come with the access codes, employee IDs, or swipe cards traditionally used for many non-biometric POS systems.
"If someone just has an access code, that code can be given to other team members," he says. "You could look over the shoulder and capture somebody else's code and use their code not only for clock-ins, but to assign yourself to cash drawers and to do voids and refunds."
The brand's fingerprint scanner, however, provides definite identification and helps keep employees as honest as possible by eliminating the popular practice of buddy-punching—when an employee clocks in for a team member who isn't in the store—Tornabene adds.
Because biometric POS systems help create greater employee accountability by tracking exactly who performs each transaction, he says they also help streamline operations.
"There's less tracking and chasing a bunch of loose ends that you'd have to do a lot of investigatory work to really find out," Tornabene says. "It means less time spent on the day-to-day minutia of having to go through a whole bunch of different reports and look at individual transactions."
Though Popeyes isn't experiencing any major issues with employee theft or time and attendance fraud, the chicken chain chose to proactively adopt a biometric POS system in November 2010.
"We were aware of all the potential issues that could be going on in our restaurants and thought it was a good time to put biometrics in because it closes the door on several potential areas of loss," says David Reid, chief technology officer for the brand.
He says the chain uses its biometric POS platform in all company-owned units for two primary functions: employee clock-in and clock-out, and manager overrides for voids, refunds, and employee discounts.
Reid says loss due to the latter is the most dangerous function many traditional POS systems fail to protect against, as manager codes and swipe cards can easily be stolen or shared.
"There are cases where you could go into a restaurant and see the swipe card sitting right next to the terminal where the manager has just given it to the drive-thru cashier and said, 'In case you need it, here's the card,'" he says. "There's obviously potential for abuse when that happens."
And when abuse does occur—with an employee giving out "friends and family" discounts just once or twice a day, for example—the costs can quickly add up.
"Multiply that across the course of a year, and you could be talking tens of thousands of dollars that's walking out the door," Reid says.
In addition to saving money at the point of sale, biometric systems can reduce unnecessary payroll costs. Because time and attendance fraud can account for nearly 5 percent of overall payroll costs, according to the American Payroll Association, this ultimately results in a more profitable unit.
At Smoothie King, Tornabene says even the most experienced operators have seen improvements in labor costs since adopting biometric POS platforms.
One additional reason quick serves are adopting biometrics is simple: It's convenient, says Jason McEachern, vice president of technology for Wingstop.
"You don't have to remember an employee ID or an operator ID," he says, adding that the systems are efficient "because it's very quick to just swipe a fingerprint to log people into the sales system or start a cash drawer audit."
Though Wingstop doesn't biometric POS systems in its units at this time, McEachern says the benefits mean the brand will likely adopt it in the future.
But making the switch to these systems doesn't come without its own set of challenges. Smoothie King's Tornabene says there are installation and setup costs, as well as maintenance costs to ensure the scanners are clean and functioning correctly.
"But it's a nominal extra expense per location relative to the amount of cash you're handling and the potential for loss," he says.
Tornabene adds that many Smoothie King franchisees were resistant to change from the old POS platform, but "once we got in there at the store level … to help demonstrate how the system could benefit them, the franchisees really bought into the program."
To learn more about how brands across the industry are using biometric POS systems to cut down on loss and drive profitability—and how your brand can do the same—register for QSR's upcoming webinar.
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The Database has an entry for that makes the point that few these days know what the tide has got to do with getting through. The word tide comes from Old English and meant "a point or division of time; due time." By the 1620s, it had become associated with the tides of the seas, and bore the notion of being carried. Hence, to tide over. In a real sense then, to "time one over" has recaptured the idiom's original sense that had been obscured.
Once done, dried and dressed he took up another energy drink to time him over until he got home.
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We are going out shopping this afternoon to get him some stuff to time him over until his bags arrive – hopefully tomorrow, but who knows.
she's still trying to grasp the concept of making a meal smoothie and wondering how a smoothie for breakfast was able to time me over until lunch.
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See also woodworking's (in April, time and tithe come to one and all) and larrybob's rediscovery of .
There'll be no messy loose ends if you have a neat little something to tidy you over.
Tempted get one to tidy me over until something better is out.
Mobile phone advice
There's another that is an ingenious version of "to tie over" that recovers the pronunciation of "tide".
For now, please partake in this confectionery creation by my dear friend Care – a sketchbook to keep me tied over until I get back to Cambodia:
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On beyond out there. I've included examples only for the most common, followed by a list of the unaccountable variants.
Planning on getting an actual computer after my holiday in late May/April, just want a quick fix to yield me over until then.
Computer advice
I'm just coming off 99 weeks taxpayer funded vacation and I'll be a'hunting for something to hole me over until I get enough working weeks together so I can get fired and go back on the government teet.
Hopeful slacker
During the third month they offered to 'loan' me my own wages to tired me over until my official ones got sorted out!
Bought it used and did not expect great things, merely an upgrade to tye me over until I can afford a new cpu.
Used CPU
Perfect! I said to myself. A quick slice to curb me over until dinner. But perfect it was not.
Pizza breakdown
ADVANCE AMERICA IS THE WORST LOAN PLACE ! I am now getting into a job but I needed only $100 to pull me over until the next week.
Loan sharks
Here's my taxonomy of substitutes found in the form of "to X me over", where X=:
survival in dormant state: lull, set, keep, patch, stay, do, hang, settle, hood, tire, tired, tied, hold
carry: haul, bring, wave, tire, float, pass, fold, keel
passage of time or space: tick, bridge
blends: told (tide and hold), hold
typos: old
malaprops: chide
unaccountable: keel, hood, tye (version of tie?)
substitutes found in the form of "to X me over"
This expression is getting . The snowclone database doesn't list it yet.
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Cesar, Global Sales Operations Rotation Program Alumni
When did you join Dell and what roles have you held in your time here?
I joined Dell on February 5, 2007 and have held a number of Sales and Sales Support positions across the CSB and Commercial businesses. During my time at Dell, I've been a US Consumer Sales Representative/Mentor, Backlog Management Lead, Smart Selection Program Lead, Large Relationship Sales Project Manager, and a Global Proposals Program Manager.
Tell us about the career development opportunities at Dell and what inspired you to apply for the Global Sales Operations Rotation Program (GSO-RP)?
What inspired me to apply for GSO-RP was the fact that I knew it was my chance to grow and thrive in my career in a completely new environment and work style. The development opportunities at Dell are wide and endless, and being in the program, I've been able to pay attention to many aspects of the business and truly take a step back to understand not only what I like, but also what may not be the right fit for me in the future. My expectations of the GSO-RP have definitely been surpassed in my time in the program.
What has been the best part about participating in GSO-RP?
First thing that comes to mind is the idea of connecting with others, ideas, business processes and making the "Dell World" a smaller place. The best part of the program is getting to know my peers and consistently gaining knowledge from their work experience and having each other as fantastic resources. If I don't know how to do something outside of my usual scope, I know that someone on my team will have the skill or talent to help, as I would for them.
What has been your most rewarding project so far in your career at Dell?
My most rewarding project at Dell is founding, creating, implementing, building and sustaining the North America Consumer Ships Fast Program. Globally, the program I led was (and is to this day) considered "Best of Breed" as far as selling highest volume Smart Selection configurations, which amounted to millions in savings due to shipping product via the ocean.
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In my experience at Dell what has stuck out the most to me is how free and open the culture and communication is. At Dell, we're encouraged to think outside of the box, take intelligent risks and bring new ideas to the table.
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Few places have so much untouched rainforest, so many beaches clear of human life, and so many surviving indigenous cultures.
Spliced between two oceans, Panama's emerald mountains and gushing streams make it a stunning getaway. The opportunities for exploration are endless here, as you hike, trek, raft or zip-line through the jungle. Boquete is just one of these pristine regions where the creeks sparkle and the trees sing with wildlife. As you move through countryside's patchwork of plantations toward the capital, you'll be greeted by a silver city with a historic heart.
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It was an awesome trip! I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to experience the real Panama with a hint of Costa Rica at the start. Lots of fun and knowledge to pick up. Definitely worth it :)
Panama travel highlights
Relax on the Pearl Islands
Indulge in a beach BBQ on the Pearl Islands after a relaxing day of snorkelling and swimming.
Ascend Volcan Bary
Standing atop Panama's tallest peak, you'll get views that reach the coasts –the Caribbean to the north and the Pacific to the south.
Decipher the petroglyphs at La Piedra Pintada
The enormous sandstone boulder is adorned with carvings thousands of years old. Their meaning is still a mystery.
Explore the historic area of El Casco Viejo
Panama City's old town was built to replace the original capital which was destroyed by pirates. See beautiful crumbling and restored churches as well as glorious white colonial palaces.
Panama holiday information
Panama facts
Local culture of Panama
Geography & environment
Shopping guide to Panama
Panama festival calendar
Food & drink in Panama
Further reading
Panama travel FAQs
- Australia: Yes - on arrival
- Belgium: Not required
- Canada: Yes - on arrival
- Germany: Not required
- Ireland: Not required
- Netherlands: Not required
- New Zealand: Yes - on arrival
- South Africa: Yes - in advance
- Switzerland: Not required
- United Kingdom: Not required
- USA: Yes - on arrival
The cost of a tourist card on arrival varies by nationality.
Tipping is common practice in Panama. Add 10-15% to your bill in restaurants and leave some extra change for guides, drives and hotel staff.
You'll be able to access the internet in urban areas of Panama only.
Panama has good mobile coverage in urban areas but service may be unreliable outside of cities. Remember to activate global roaming with your provider if you wish to use your mobile while traveling.
Panama has both western-style toilets and squat toilets. Soap and toilet paper aren't always provided so you may like to carry some with you.
- Bottle of soft drink = 1 PAB
- Bottle of local beer = 1.50-2 PAB
- Snack at a market = 2-3 PAB
- Lunch at a café = 5-7 PAB
- Three-course dinner at a restaurant = 20 PAB
Drinking tap water is safe in Panama unless otherwise states. For environmental reasons, avoid buying bottled water and bring a refillable bottle or canteen with you.
You'll be able to use your credit card in places like hotels, large shops and restaurants, but prepare to pay cash when making purchases from local businesses.
Large cities and touristy towns have ATMs, but be sure to withdraw before leaving cities for rural areas.
Yes. All peregrine passengers are required to purchase travel insurance prior to their trip. Your insurance details will be recorded by your leader on the first day.
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Mike Lively has taken a big step in his PHP development process, a move to using unit tests for his resulting code. In this new blog post he describes the experience - mainly how much he's enjoying it.
I have spent alot of time in testing using SimpleTest and I have also given some time to test-more.php. However, up until just recently I had honestly never used PHPUnit before. The big motivational factor for me (other than to try something new) was to see how the code coverage feature was coming along.
I would have to say that after a few weeks of tinkering with it I am impressed.
He mentions some of the notable features he's used as well as some of his surprisng finds along the way:
Using the framework is an absolute breeze and there is excellent documentation [...]. The most impressive part of this experience in my mind was how runnable the software is straight out of CVS.


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The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing yesterday on the national rape kit backlog, the reauthorization of the Debbie Smith Act, and current legislation introduced in the Senate that is intended to incentivize the processing of rape kits. hearing
Committee Chair Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said in his statement, "No matter how much money we send to crime labs for testing, if samples that could help make cases instead sit on the shelf in police evidence rooms and never make it to the lab, that money will do no good. Police officers must understand the importance of testing this vital evidence and must learn when testing is appropriate and necessary...there must be national standards, protocols, and best practices giving clear guidance to police officers about when kits and other relevant DNA samples must go to labs. Every jurisdiction must have real incentives to provide comprehensive training and put into place these standards for the officers who handle DNA evidence."
The Senate bill, the "Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act," introduced by Senator Al Franken (D-MN) and co-sponsored by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) was addressed in the hearing. If passed, the act would require that states pay the cost of rape kit examinations upfront, that survivors are informed of their right to a free rape kit examination, and creates monetary incentives to reduce rape kit backlogs, process rape kits quickly, and report backlog numbers. It also creates a nation-wide annual reporting mechanism for rape kit backlogs, funds the training of sexual assault forensic medical personnel, and defines "trained examiner" in a way that will allow rural and tribal areas, where incidence of rape is disproportionately high, to access grant funds. There is also a version of the bill introduced in the House.
According to Human Rights Watch, there are approximately 200,000 reported rapes each year and, in most cases, DNA evidence is collected and stored in a "rape kit." In 2004, Congress passed the Debbie Smith Act, which authorized the use of federal funds to test DNA kits. However, the law did not specify that the DNA kits be rape kits. Currently, Los Angeles has a backlog of over 12,500 untested rape kits in spite of having received about $8 million Debbie Smith Act funds. Other cities, such as Detroit, have a backlog of 10,000 untested rape kits or more. There are no current national statistics regarding the number of untested rape kits, because no state or federal laws mandate law enforcement agencies collect this information. Some estimates suggest the total number of untested kits is over 180,000.
Debbie Smith herself testified at the hearing, saying, "each box holds within it vital evidence that is crucial to the safety of women everywhere...Can you imagine going through an exam like what goes on in one of those things for nothing? To know that you were just traumatized again, for it to sit on a shelf, it's not fair," according to CBS News.
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Comparing therapies for canine hyperadrenocorticism
Dr. Edward C. Feldman lectured at the 2007 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Forum in Seattle on "Medical Management of Canine Hyperadrenocorticism: A Comparison of Trilostane to Mitotane." Here are some relevant points:
Polyuria is the most worrisome and life-threatening aspect of hyperadrenocorticism in the context of owners who will not or cannot tolerate a dog that is no longer housebroken due to large volumes of urine produced secondary to a condition like hyperadrenocorticism. Therefore, the concern that encourages most owners to consider treatment is their dog's polyuria.
No dog should be treated for hyperadrenocorticism — a clinical condition — unless there are obvious clinical signs consistent with the diagnosis and that are worrisome to the owner. But once a dog has clinical signs and the diagnosis is confirmed, the owner should consider treatment.Medical therapy using o,p'-DDD
o,p'-DDD (Lysodren, Mitotane) is a cytotoxic agent related to the insecticide DDT. This drug has been used successfully by veterinarians for the treatment of canine PDH for well over 30 years. The drug has a reputation of being toxic, and that has has limited its use. However, that reputation for toxicity should merely increase respect for the drug. Used correctly, it is safe, cost effective and efficacious.
No dog with a poor appetite should ever be treated medically for PDH.
Induction protocol
Therapy with o,p'-DDD always should be initiated at home, with the owner administering 25 mg/kg, given BID. Glucocorticoids are neither routinely administered nor dispensed. Rather, the owner should receive thorough instructions on the actions of o,p'-DDD. Then, the owner is instructed to begin reducing the dog's food allotment by one-third beginning the day before o,p'-DDD is begun.
Because we always begin therapy on a Sunday, we have owners give their dog two-thirds of its normal food allotment, one-third each morning and again one-third each evening, beginning on the Saturday preceding the first day of therapy. This should make the typical polyphagic dog quite hungry.
Lysodren administration should be continued BID until any of the following are observed: 1) the polydipsic dog's daily water consumption approaches 60 ml/kg; 2) the dog simply takes longer to consume a meal and certainly if it develops partial or complete anorexia/inappetence; 3) vomiting; 4) diarrhea or 5) unusual listlessness. Any of these observations demands that an owner stop daily o,p'-DDD therapy and have the dog examined by the veterinarian.
The single most reliable and consistent indicator for having reached the endpoint of this induction phase of therapy is appetite reduction. Any reduction in appetite indicates that the induction phase has been completed. The water intake in polydipsic dogs may decrease in as few as two days or as many as 35 days (average is five to 14 days), but is less consistent in determining therapeutic endpoint. Using appetite to determine endpoint also decreases the risk of ever observing vomiting or diarrhea secondary to the use of o,p'-DDD.
Lysodren is quite successful in eliminating the clinical signs of hyperadrenocorticism by reducing serum cortisol concentrations. This therapeutic approach requires close communication between owner and veterinarian. Either a veterinarian or technician should call the owner each day beginning with the second day of therapy during the initial week, or induction phase, of o,p'-DDD administration. The owner, after being contacted several days in a row, typically becomes quite impressed by the veterinarian's concern.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Polar bear cubs in Alaska's Beaufort Sea are much less likely to survive compared to about 20 years ago, probably due to melting sea ice caused by global warming, a study released on Wednesday said.
The study, published by the U.S. Geological Survey, estimated that only 43 percent of polar bear cubs in the southern Beaufort Sea survived their first year during the past five years, compared to a 65 percent survival rate in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
"The changes in survival of cubs are very dramatic," said the study's author Steven Amstrup, polar bear project leader for the USGS Alaska Science Center.
The falling survival rate comes as a warming climate has melted much of the sea ice off Alaska's northern coast, limiting polar bears from hunting for food at the ice's edge, Amstrup said.
"The things we're observing are consistent with a population that is undergoing nutritional stress," said Amstrup. "We can't say definitively it's because of changes in the sea ice, but we don't know what else it would be."
The study also found that adult male polar bears captured after 1990 were smaller than those captured before then.
Co-authored by one of Amstrup's USGS colleagues and a scientist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, the study provides information that might be used by federal officials who are considering a proposal to give polar bears protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Environmentalists have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to classify the bears as threatened because of new difficulties they are facing from the warming Arctic climate.
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(162) This Bike Poet Delivers Dreams to Your Doorstep
(161) The 22 Best Books I Read in 2016
(160) Three Beach Reads To Make Your Summer Less Boring and Alone
(159) Being a Professional 'Hearthstone' Gamer Is Harder Than It Looks
(158) These Short Films Will Self Destruct After You Watch Them
(157) The Familiar Would Like To Be Less Familiar Than It Actually Is
(156) Brian Evenson's Writing is as Brutal as it is Beautiful
(155) Throwing Confetti in Death's Face with Derek McCormack
(154) The Hallucinatory Terror of Unica Zürn
(153) Three Books Blurring the Borders of Memory and Reality
(152) John Keene's 'Counternarratives' Rewires History With Imagination
(151) Heather Christle's 'Heliopause' Disintegrates Reality
(150) 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever' is the End of an Era
(149) People Who Died Trying To Set World Records
(148) Three Short, Savage Books You Have To Read
(147) Underappreciated Masterpieces: Why Did I Ever (2001)
(146) Andrew James Weatherhead Proves You Don't Have To Share Every Single Thing That Comes Into Your Mind
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(143) This Novel Is Made Entirely of Terrifying GIFs
(142) The Unexpected Favorite Films of Your Favorite Celebrities
(141) Food is a Private Hell, Love is a Private Hell
(140) Have You Ever Dreamed of 'This Man'?
(139) All the Books I Read in 2014
(138) We Live In Hiromi Ito's Wasteland
(137) A Roller Coaster Designed To Kill People
(136) A Written Museum of Murder, Suicide, and Revelation in Baltimore
(135) The Top 10 Worst Beatles Songs
(134) Six Uniquely Terrifying Books for Halloween
(133) Talking Video Games and Ghosts with John Darnielle
(132) Yannick Murphy Puts You In The Mind of a Serial Killer
(131) Grandiose Predictions for the 2014-15 NFL Season
(130) Geographic North Redefines Space
(129) Love in the Time of Xanax and Nokia
(128) Thirty Years of Dalkey Archive Press
(127) The Bizarre and Terrifying Propaganda Art of the Children of God
(126) Sprezzatura Basically Means You're Chill but You Give a Shit
(125) Underappreciated Masterpieces: J.G. Ballard's High-Rise
(124) Why Do So Many Soft Drinks Taste Like Teletubby Blood?
(123) Summer Reading List: Zombie Hordes, Snuff Films, Haunted Computers
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(120) How Many Crystals Do You Have Left Inside You?
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(118) Joe Wenderoth Cannot Be Vanquished
(117) Underappreciated Masterpieces: Javier Marías's Dark Back of Time
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(88) Windows That Lead To More Windows: An Interview With Gary Lutz
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(83) Fatty XXL Meets The Little Mermaid High on X & Texting
(82) I Hate Myself And Want To Die: A Review of the New Wendy's Pretzel Burger
(81) The Beatles are Dead, Fassbinder is Alive
(80) All My Favorite Narrators Are Women
(79) Inside the Mind of a Female Pedophile
(78) Conceptual Writing, Gender, Murder, & Bob Seger
(77) "Happy Rock" by Matthew Simmons, a One-Man Black Metal Band
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(75) The Miami Heat Reader
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(73) Please Start Banning Books Again
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(65) March Madness of Fast Food
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(63) The Day in the Life of an Alzheimer's Caregiver
(62) Sergio De La Pava's Narrative Mutations
(61) The Disorienting Novels of Kobo Abe
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(58) What is Obscene?
(57) Crude Drawings of Hot Scenes from Literature
(56) Anne Carson vs. George Saunders
(55) The Jim Jones of Poetry
(54) How Will the David Foster Wallace Legacy Survive Itself?
(53) Brief Reviews of Every Movie I Saw In Theaters in 2012
(52) Men Are Victims of Workplace Sexual Harassment, Too
(51) All the Books I Read in 2012
(50) Verbal Paintings of Cartoon Dogs Sexting
(49) Considering Roberto Bolaño and 'Woes of the True Policeman'
(48) My Greatest Performances in Binge Eating
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(46) Who is Zachary German?
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(44) Messed Up Books To Read While Wearing A Mask
(43) I asked my dad, who has dementia, to annotate Jonathan Franzen's How To Be Alone
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(38) A Chat With David Byrne About 'How Music Works'
(37) Emily Dickinson was So Horny and Ready to Die
(36) Pimp C and Raisin Bran Crunch are Inextricable Parts of Reality
(35) The Putrid Voyeurisms of Peter Sotos
(34) The Juggalo Summer Reading List
(33) Fifty Shades of Chick-Fil-A: My Polyamorous Chick-Fil-A Fan Porn
(32) Shane Jones's Fantasies Shit On The 'Real World'
(31) Books About Death By People Who Committed Suicide
(30) Masturbating Over Ghosts
(29) Literary Mailbag: Books Reading Writing Literature Fiction Poetry Dogs Horses Money Gossip Arby's Don DeLillo
(28) I Watched The Holy Mountain With My Mom
(27) FC2's Forty Years of Brainbending
(26) All Advice Is Bad
(25) Diane Williams's Sticky Secrets
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(23) Snow On Tha Bluff
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(21) Three Thin Weird Good Books About Sex And Power
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(16) Thinking about Suicide in the Breakroom
(15) Beautiful Gross People on Notebook Paper
(14) Cleverbot on Contemporary Literature, Dating, and God
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(12) Here Is a Book That Wrote Itself
(11) The Tiny Massive Lardfields of Aase Berg
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(8) Reconsidering Perec's Library
(7) "The Shining 2 by Jonathan Franzen" by Stephen King
(6) I Talked Books to Bros on Chatroulette
(5) Nikanor Teratologen's Rolodex of Atrocities
(4) Selected Unread Books I've Had On My Self For 5+ Years and Why I Haven't Read Them yet And/Or What I Think They Might Be About
(3) Injecting Mercury
(2) The Multiplying Hells of Pierre Guyotat
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Dr. George Gremple Hart, a life-long resident of Lake Placid, died quietly at home on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in his 98th year. Dr. Hart was the son of Edward and Sarah Gremple Hart. Edward Hart was an orphan in London, England, and arrived in the New World on the S.S. Numidian from Liverpool at Montreal in 1895 at the age of 14. Sarah Gremple came to Saranac Lake from New York City to cure for tuberculosis. Edward and Sarah married, and Dr. Hart was born July 22, 1916, in Lake Placid. He graduated from Lake Placid High School in 1934. He attended McGill University in Montreal, and he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery. McGill is one of the few universities that awards the two degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery to the graduates of its medical school. At McGill, he was a member of the Osler Society and the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity. He interned at St. Lukes Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and after World War II, he took training in obstetrics in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1942, Dr. Hart joined the U. S. Army Medical Corps as a flight surgeon and was attached to the 46th Fighter Squadron for over three years, all service being in the Pacific area of combat. His last post was the bivouac area on Iwo Jima where many casualties ensued, and Dr. Hart was the only medical officer on duty following a Banzai attack. For his actions, he was awarded the Silver Star for uncommon valor. After World War II, Dr. Hart returned to Lake Placid, took more medical training and undertook the general practice of medicine. During his years of practice, he was a staff member at Placid Memorial Hospital, where he served several terms as President of the Medical Staff, and Saranac Lake General Hospital. He served as President of the New York State Academy of Family Practice in 1970-71. He was a member of the American Medical Association and the New York State Medical Society. During his years of practice, he delivered generations of babies born in Lake Placid, was the doctor on call for many of the hotels, made house calls as a major part of his practice, had office hours and was available to the community for their medical needs 24 hours a day. He covered school, community, and international sporting events. He was the doctor for North Country School. In 1975, he was appointed Medical Director of Uihlein Mercy Center and served until 1987, when he retired from the practice of medicine. Dr. Hart was an active member of the community. He was Medical Director of the Lake Placid Club, and Chairman of Medical Services for the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. He served on the Lake Plaid Board of Education from 1955-1970, and was President of the Board for nine years. He was a member of the Lake Placid Hall of Fame, the Kiwanis Club of Lake Placid, and the Lake Placid Sports Council. Dr. Hart was a life-long member of St. Eustace Episcopal Church. He served on the Vestry and was Senior Warden. He sat the board of St. Francis Academy (Camelot) for many years. He was a member of the Lake Placid Lodge of Freemasons, #834, and of the Scottish Rite, the Shriners. He was a member of the Lake Placid Institute and the Lake Placid Historical Society. Dr. Hart was an accomplished photographer, gardener and musician, playing the French horn and the violin. He compiled a genealogy of the History of Aberdeen Angus breed, and at one time, he had sixty head of Angus cattle on his farm, Placidmere, in Averyville. He was widely read, with a special interest in history and music. He often said his favorite things in life were medicine, music, cows, and bridge. 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The Masonic Lodge # 834 offered the Masonic Prayer Service at the funeral home at 6:30 p.m. followed by an American Legion Prayer Service, offered by Post 326, Lake Placid, at 6:45 p.m. at the funeral home. A Funeral Service will be held Saturday, May 17, at 2:00 PM at St. Eustace Episcopal Church, followed by burial at North Elba Cemetery. Rev. David Ousley will officiate. A reception will follow at the Hart residence on Interlaken Avenue. Donations in Dr. Harts memory may be made to St. Eustace Episcopal Church, Tri-Lakes Humane Society or the Dr. George Hart Scholarship Fund, NYSAFP (New York State Academy of Family Practice), 260 Osborne Road, Albany, NY 12211 Relatives and friends are invited to light a candle and share a story for the Hart family to cherish or leave online condolences at www.mbclarkfuneralhome.com .
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Bringing the Lincoln Paper Mill Back from the Dead
Lincoln Paper Wasn't Even a Zombie Company. It Was Dead. Closed. Kaput. Then New Owners Brought in Multivariable Testing to Help Resurrect It Through a Top-to-Bottom Revamp of Procedures, Processes and Plant Culture
When the paper mill in Lincoln, Maine, closed in 2004, it wasn't a tragedy just for its owners and the workers there. Losing the mill was a serious blow to Lincoln, a town of about 5000 located in east central Maine. There had been a mill of some kind in Lincoln since the 1800s, and lumbering and paper-making were embedded in the area's history and culture.
For nearly three years, the mill doors remained closed, and it looked like the next stop would be dismantling the plant. Nobody wanted it. Then a group of investors, led by Keith Van Scotter, bought it up for about $33 million dollars.
But that was only the beginning of the project of getting Lincoln Paper and Tissue up and running again and, above all, profitable.
Lincoln is not a small facility physically, covering some 15 acres, although it does only about $150 million in sales, not all that much in the paper business. It makes 140,000 tons of paper and tissue a year and has six integrated pulp and energy production lines, two paper machines, a pulp dryer and three tissue machines. Its machinery runs the gamut from some of the oldest in the State of Maine to the newest—a tissue machine installed in 2006. Its Paper Machine 4 is over 100 years old.
The business has a checkered history. CEO Van Scotter explains: "As a pulp and paper company, it was formed in 1882, and paper machines were added in the first half of the 20th century, but there has been manufacturing on the site since the 1850s. It's been through a couple of ownerships and a couple of bankruptcies—the first time in 1968. It was purchased and restarted then and tissue-making capacity was added in the 60s and 70s. Pulp mill improvements had been added in the 1950s and 60s, but due to a combination of factors, it went into Chapter 11 in 2000."
Unable to work out an arrangement to get it out of Chapter 11, by 2003, it had again been shut down and was about to be sold for scrap when Van Scotter and his associates negotiated a highly leveraged buyout and re-opened it as Lincoln Paper and Tissue.
Immediately Van Scotter went out to raise the $40 million to buy the modern Tissue Machine 8, but it would take more than that to get Lincoln back on its feet. "We had a tremendous need to drive the company forward without spending capital to get the kind of improvements we needed to stay in business. We were making a little bit of money then; we'd invested a lot of money, but we had to pay the bills. It was a survival thing."
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And it wasn't just Van Scotter's and his associates' money riding on the line. Lincoln now employs nearly 400 people, many of whom already had been through one factory close in a one-factory town, and Lincoln is the biggest employer in a 50-mile radius. Failure simply was not an option, and frugal from-the-ground-up improvement was the only way to go.
"The company had been in bankruptcy for three years. Only limited expenditures were made on maintenance and capital improvements," explains Van Scotter. "It functioned when we got it, but it needed a lot of work."
And Van Scotter had little time and less money to get his improvements in place. "We didn't have the capital a lot of companies did; we didn't have the people a lot of companies did. We had what we had."
Bringing in MVT
That's when Van Scotter called in his old friend Art Hammer of QualPro in Knoxville, Tenn. QualPro is a consulting service that offers a technique for process improvement called multivariable testing or MVT.
MVT takes the guesswork out of selecting business improvement strategies by testing a multitude of ideas at once and revealing the positive, negative or neutral impact of the ideas. Van Scotter breaks it down this way: "Twenty-five percent of the factors will help [improve a process]. Another 25% will make things worse, and 50% don't matter."
What MVT does is demonstrate which is which.
"The neat thing about MVT," says Van Scotter, "is that in classic process improvement, you test one factor at a time. MVT allows you to take ideas from everyone and test a lot of different factors at the same time, and through showing their statistical significance, you can tell what helps, what hurts and what doesn't make a difference. You likely won't find a solution running individual tests. The math is impossible. You'll miss out on all the interactions. And you just run out of time. It's physically impossible."
QualPro's MVT methodology focuses on harvesting the ideas and creativity of the entire workforce to develop innovative ideas and then statistically determines which of them have the strongest impact on improvement. At Lincoln Paper, the rule of thumb for suggestions is "can it be done quickly and cheaply." If it can, Van Scotter says, "Then we'll try it. The science and the statistics are hard, but the actually testing is really simple."
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Ron Guth:
Yes, the 1937-D Nickel is a very common coin in most grades, but let's talk about condition rarity. Thousands of examples of this date have been certified in MS64, MS65, and MS66 condition, but in MS67, the population drops off dramatically. MS68 is where this date shines (literally). In March of 2015, one of the two PCGS MS68 examples sold for an amazing $35,250, setting a new, remarkably high record for the date, and pretty much for any late-date Buffalo Nickel.
David Hall: The 1937-D is a common Buffalo nickel in all grades. Only the 1937 and 1938-D are easier to find in mint state and Gem condition. Strike is usually very sharp and luster is typically quite frosty.
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