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Time Continue Campaign of Fear and Class Warfare
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Contract on America's Poor?
As the House passed bills to reduce spending, taxes
and regulations, the media promoted the liberal spin. "The new
Republican majority in Congress took a big step today on its legislative
agenda to demolish or damage government aid programs, many of them
designed to help children and the poor," Dan Rather declared March 16,
referring to $17 billion in cuts.
"The most drastic measures are not expected to survive
in the Senate," ABC World News Saturday anchor Catherine Crier noted
before a March 25 story, ominously intoning "but congressional tinkering
with welfare is creating fear all across America."
An April 5 ABC story on the property rights bill,
which provides compensation when regulations diminish land value, ended
by echoing the fears of liberal environmental activists. Warned Barry
Serafin: "In the rush to change, reform or reject regulations, little
time has been spent in the new Congress sorting out the arguments or the
To Time, tax cuts are an evil. "For Republicans, tax
cuts are becoming a kind of deadly virus, threatening to cripple any GOP
measure they infect," Michael Duffy wrote April 3. Welfare reform
"should have been a slam-dunk," but the GOP "somehow allowed tax cuts --
the passion of campaign contributors -- to get in the way."
Even if the $500-per-child tax credit were cut, Duffy
insisted, "an enormous tax break for the wealthy would still loom."
Without citing any contrasting numbers, he reported "Democrats charge
that more than 50 percent of the remaining $85 billion in tax benefits
in the Contract would go to the ten percent of families whose incomes
exceed $100,000." A Joint Economic Committee report cited studies
showing that before the rate was hiked in 1985 "fully three-quarters of
the value of all capital gains went to taxpayers earning less than
$100,000" and 70 percent "reporting capital gains had income of less
than $50,000."
What's the public's verdict? For the April 6 NBC
Nightly News Bob Faw traveled to the Nashville Speedway and found "most
here regard the first hundred days the way an old-fashioned mother
regards breakfast, as a good beginning. And most hope the big engines in
Washington keep right on running."
But ABC's Jackie Judd noted the same night that a poll
showed while most "endorse the general themes of the Contract, they're
not so happy with the specifics." Judd aired three negative soundbites
before concluding: "One of the most personally troubling aspects of the
survey for Speaker Gingrich may be the large number of people who said
he doesn't understand their problems. Gingrich views himself as a man of
the people. The survey result raises the question -- what people?"
Revolving Door
"Balanced" Bill Moyers?
In February promotional spots NBC promised: "Bold,
clear, balanced and fair. Now NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw has a new
dimension -- Bill Moyers." So what has the Press Secretary to Lyndon
Johnson offered in his twice a week commentaries?
A picture of politics subverted by evil corporate
interests. From the first on February 14 through April 6, seven
advocated a liberal view vs. just one, on March 21, which offered a
conservative take. In it he looked at welfare: "It doesn't seem quite
fair that" women who can't afford a child "should be paying for someone
else to have several children....[The Republican's] reforms may be
flawed but not as flawed as welfare itself."
February 14 on the line item veto: "But the bill has a
loop hole. The President can veto tax breaks or giveaways to small
groups of people and to small companies, but he can't do anything,
anything, about special tax breaks or giveaways Congress keeps slipping
to the big guys, like the billions of dollars to huge drug companies a
couple of years ago. How come?....Well, those big companies are among
the biggest contributors to political campaigns, including a lot of
politicians who are crazy about the line item veto, but not that crazy,
so corporate welfare gets the loophole."
February 23 on Henry Foster: "No one can speak for all
Baptists, but in the last decade, the Southern Baptist Convention was
captured by a political posse allied with the Republican Party. Their
hierarchy wants to impose conformity on the churches. Suddenly, the 39
legal abortions performed by Henry Foster, which he says he did
reluctantly, are a theological sin and a political opportunity."
March 7: "Gingrich uses words as if they were napalm
bombs....He sent conservative candidates a long list of words to smear
their opponents -- words like `sick,' `pathetic,' `traitors,' `corrupt,'
`anti-family,' `disgrace.' With talk radio quoting it all back to us,
our political landscape is a toxic dump."
March 14 on the Contract's property rights plank: "Now
it's pay-back time" for business donors, "and environmental safeguards
are being suspended to make way for a massive raid on public lands. The
House is about to revoke laws protecting national forests from excess
logging. This could mean a fortune for the timber companies," which
means "the arsonists are finally in charge of the fire department."
March 23 on Gingrich: "A majority of people say they
don't like what they're learning about his Contract. They know the
difference between reforming the welfare state and replacing it with the
corporate state....Some of this stuff...could only get through hidden in
the hubcaps of a juggernaut."
April 6 on the tax bill: "Big winners won this round
-- corporations, investors, people with high incomes," but, he cited
trade-offs. "One, it invites the return of mischievous tax shelters that
distort the economy. Two, you can't be sure of its results. The 1981 tax
cuts were followed by the biggest economic downturn since the Great
Depression. Three, by encouraging consumption over savings the tax bill
risks inflation. Four, it stirs sleeping cynics. How come so many tax
breaks are proposed for wealthy individuals and corporations who've been
pouring money into party coffers at the rate of $123,000 a day?"
Handicapping the GOP in '96
Passionless Pachyderms
Journalists see a 1996 GOP presidential field of a few
pragmatists and a gaggle of unsavory conservatives. In the March 6
Newsweek, Senior Editor Joe Klein thought the field lacks charisma:
"Eight lumpen pachyderms who performed their first casting call for the
massed New Hampshire GOP on President's Day eve. Their inelegant,
passionless pokiness was a surprising turn for a party that, from Reagan
to Limbaugh to Gingrich, has been the prime incubator of vehemence in
American politics."
As usual, liberal Republicans garnered the better
coverage. Sen. Arlen Specter's 1992 National Tax Limitation Committee
rating was 50 (out of 100) and his Children's Defense Fund rating that
year was 90. But Time's John F. Dickerson claimed March 13: "Specter
offers a mix of fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism." After
being booed in Iowa, "he was convinced by that rebuke that the social
extremism that had so disturbed him during the 1992 GOP convention had
taken control of the party." Time said Specter's "biggest plus" is that
he is "pro-choice." On March 6, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Andrew Murr
found Pete Wilson's problem: "Another political liability is that Wilson
is no antigovernment zealot....Wilson's record underscores how the GOP's
turn right makes it difficult for pragmatists to campaign in the
Republican primaries. That's because saying what it takes to win
(government must shrink) is not always what it takes to govern."
Sen. Phil Gramm received the worst press, best
demonstrated by Time Austin reporter S.C. Gwynne's personal attack in
the March 13 issue. "Maybe he just can't help himself. Phil Gramm, the
Robespierre of the Republican right and a man with a startlingly real
shot at the presidency, just can't seem to avoid making people mad....He
is driven, instinctive and fanatically goal-oriented; he is often
insensitive to appearances and unwilling to listen to his peers."
Gwynne added that Gramm is "ill-suited to national
exposure. He is, by his own description, `ugly.' He speaks in a deep
drawl that calls to mind the often grating cadences of Lyndon Johnson.
Combine that with his certain endorsement by many right-to-life groups,
and an image emerges of an ungainly, deep-fried reactionary with little
chance of carrying the moderate vote on Election Day."
Cooke Award
NBC's Giselle Fernandez Declares An "Alarming"
Growth in Homelessness as the GOP Cuts
Emotional Anecdotes Over Evidence
The networks' occasional concern for the national debt
or the rapid growth of entitlements never matches the intensity of
network campaigning against spending cuts. As House Republicans passed a
"recisions bill" reducing previously approved spending for fiscal 1995
by $17 billion (less than a tenth of the year's deficit), the networks
went looking for pain, not the fiscal gain.
For asserting without much statistical evidence that
Republican reductions would cause a dramatically growing homeless
problem to worsen, NBC's Giselle Fernandez earned the April Janet Cooke
As anchor of the Sunday Nightly News on March 12,
Fernandez told the story of four homeless children killed in a fire at a
Philadelphia shelter: "The tragedy of that blaze sheds light on the
fastest growing homeless population in the country, in our Focus
tonight, women and children without a home and with nowhere to go. As
Republicans and Democrats fight over a solution, we take a look at the
feminization of homelessness."
Fernandez began her report: "They're crowding shelters
in cities across the nation in alarming numbers. Single mothers with
children." After airing a few soundbites of homeless mothers, Fernandez
aired liberal advocate Mary Brosnahan of the Coalition for the Homeless:
"It's just simply the most visible sign of very deep-rooted poverty in
this country. If you're just looking at the family population, it's
skyrocketed; and those families are typically headed by young women,
without a husband, who are flooding the shelter system." Fernandez
asserted: "Across the nation there are an estimated 20,000 homeless
families. And social workers worry the crisis will only worsen if the
new Congress keeps its promise and makes deep cuts in bedrock social
programs and especially in public housing."
Fernandez did not give a source for her numbers, but
the national office of Coalition for the Homeless has done no formal
academic count of homelessness to back up Brosnahan's claims of a
"skyrocketing" population of homeless families. While Fernandez claimed
there were 20,000 homeless families in the country, Brosnahan's group
claimed without proof in the February 23 Newsday that there are 20,000
homeless people in New York City alone, and that cuts will double that
NBC also failed to provide a statistical breakdown of
the percentage of homeless people who are women with children. Even
liberal groups like the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which regularly
reports dramatic growth in homelessness, found that 56 percent of the
homeless were individual adult males, and individual adult females
account for another 25 percent. This hardly suggests that families
dominate the homeless population, although women with children, who
naturally inspire more sympathy than individual men or women, assume a
central place in homeless activists' publicity.
Fernandez continued: "Most blame a lack of jobs and
affordable housing and child care for their plight. But there are no
stereotypes. Becky McDaniel lives with her son in this California home
for families. Like 40 percent of homeless women, she fled to a shelter
to escape domestic violence." NBC cited no source for this claim either.
Fernandez added: "Sister Kristin runs the St. Joseph's family shelter in
New Jersey and works first-hand with homeless mothers and their
children. If the cuts go through, she says, more families will be on the
streets than ever before."
In the midst of nine soundbites of homeless people and
liberal activists, Fernandez found time for only one conservative voice:
"But Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, lobbying for the cuts this week
as part of his Contract with America, says welfare reform is imperative
-- not to hurt the children but to save them."
Fernandez immediately countered: "But Democrats say
cuts will only further harm this most vulnerable population. Housing
Secretary Henry Cisneros says, in fact, they'll force 32,000 more
families into shelters....And that frightens homeless mothers like
Angela Draughn at the St. Joseph's Shelter in New Jersey. Every morning
as she gets her kids ready for school, she worries that once she gets
back on her feet, there won't be enough low-income housing to move
into...As Washington debates heat up over deep cuts in social programs,
mothers like Angela just keep trying to survive." Fernandez concluded:
"Congress is scheduled to vote Thursday on $17 billion in budget cuts.
Of that total, $7 billion would come from the federal Department of
But NBC left out any sense of federal spending on homelessness. The
media reported last June that the Clinton administration planned to
spend $2.1 billion in fiscal 1995 on homeless aid, three times the $555
million spent on homeless aid in the last year of the Bush
administration. Can reducing this dramatic increase qualify as a "deep
cut," as NBC suggested?
Fernandez also did not specify whether cuts in Housing
and Urban Development funding were for homelessness. For example, $2.7
billion came out of rental assistance for poor families, and $1.1
billion came from funds for repairing damaged public housing projects.
NBC also left out that the $7 billion cut was aimed at paying for $7
billion of disaster relief, mostly for Southern California earthquake
victims. Those victims were not included in NBC's story. NBC weekend
producers failed to return repeated phone calls.
NBC aired no conservative commenting on the estimates
aired in NBC's report. Cassandra Moore, an adjunct fellow at the
Competitive Enterprise Institute who has worked on the federal
government's Interagency Task Force on Homelessness, told MediaWatch:
"Sensationalism is the hallmark of media coverage, which only makes is
more difficult to deal rationally and solve the problem."
Heritage Foundation housing analyst Ron Utt told
MediaWatch the actual structure of the housing budget can obscure the
debate: "They never explain what the funding is -- is it authority or is
it outlays? The consequence is you can make up whatever you want." Utt's
argument is bolstered by a November/December 1990 American Enterprise
article by John Cogan and Timothy Muris, which studied liberal claims
that housing funds dried up in the Reagan years: "While budget authority
for subsidized housing programs declined by nearly 77 percent (from
1981-1989), the number of subsidized units and the number of families
living in those units increased by one-third."
Why do the networks report on homelessness without the
most elementary documentation? What NBC delivered was not credible
information, but unsupported perceptions -- style over substance. When a
network prefers the methods of activists to the methodologies of
statisticians, they can hardly be surprised when the idea that they are
only honest brokers of information falls on deaf ears.
Poor, Poor Gorby
Returning to an old habit of glorification, the CBS
Evening News bemoaned the obscurity in which former communist leader
Mikhail Gorbachev now dwells. Bob Schieffer began: "On this date a
decade ago, the Soviet Union gained a bold young leader who made us all
learn the words perestroika and glasnost." Reporter Jonathan Sanders
lamented: "Ten years after he began the revolution that brought down the
Soviet Union, his entourage consists of a translator and a few Western
journalists...Once he stood at world stage center, ending the arms race,
finishing off the Cold War. Today Mikhail Gorbachev has been relegated
to the periphery."
Sanders claimed: "At home, Gorbachev gave his people
freedom from fear...And freedom of religion, for believers of all
persuasions." He left out any mention of the brutal 1990 killings to
prevent Lithuanian independence. Sanders allowed CBS consultant Stephen
Cohen to proclaim: "Gorbachev's significance in the context of Russia is
that he was the first Russian ruler ever to cross the Rubicon from
dictatorship to democracy."
Shot with the Starting Gun.
When Republicans run for the presidency, network
reporters lambaste them with extremist labels like "far right" and
"ultraconservative." On February 19, NBC Today weekend co-host Giselle
Fernandez introduced moderate Sen. Arlen Specter as the candidate "who
casts himself as an alternative to the far right fringe." The next
morning, on ABC's Good Morning America, Bob Zelnick noted that beside
Dole and Gramm "other candidates include" Lugar, Specter, former
Education Secretary Alexander, "and ultra-conservative columnist Pat
Dan Rather got into the act on the March 3 CBS Evening
News: "While others in the GOP pack are running as Mr. Right, or Mr. Far
Right, Senator Lugar is stressing his foreign policy expertise." On
CNN's Larry King Live March 13, King asked Pat Buchanan: "Are you the
majority?...That would be considered the far right, right?" Six days
later, CNN World News reporter Gene Randall greeted Buchanan's
presidential announcement with the title "champion of the far right."
Hearing Hypocrisy.
In 1994, when Democrats controlling the House
Judiciary Committee held hearings on an assault weapons ban, ABC, CNN,
and CBS replayed emotional testimony for the ban on their evening
newscasts. Emphasizing the guns used, not the criminal, CNN's Linden
Soles declared on the April 26, 1994 World News: "Relatives relayed
horror stories of how assault weapons devastated their families." Soles
relayed the Clinton position: "The Attorney General put it bluntly --
assault weapons are made to kill people and should not be available to
civilians." Only ABC mentioned testimony against the ban.
This year, the Republican-controlled House Judiciary
subcommittee on crime heard testimony on March 31 from those claiming
guns had saved their lives. According to the April 1 Washington Times,
the panel included "a grandmother from Waterford, Michigan, who used a
handgun to wound an assailant who had shot and killed a clerk in her
store...[and] a gun merchant, who defended himself with firearms during
the 1992 Los Angeles riots." ABC and NBC ignored the self-defense
testimony, CNN gave it an anchor-read brief on World News, featuring
witnesses on both sides. CBS ran a clip of each side a week later in a
story on the NRA expecting a "payback" for its donations.
Sesno Soft on Hillary.
Deviating from the confrontational nature of most
Sunday talk shows, CNN's Frank Sesno dared not lay a glove on Hillary
Clinton when she granted a rare hour-long live interview on the March 19
Late Edition. Sesno gave the First Lady free rein to accuse the
Republicans of being extremists and targeting children, yet did not
follow up her accusations with any tough questions. Mrs. Clinton
quipped: "I wish we would have our debates on the issues and that
everybody would be factual in their presentation of the information so
that the American public could know what the debate was about." She
added that her husband "tries to bring people together, not to divide
them, and that's what the world needs right now." So why didn't Sesno at
that point challenge her to the defend her earlier statement on the show
about "extremists in the Republican Party who go too far"?
He also could have questioned her about divisive
comments coming from the administration and other Democrats, including
White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, who accused Republicans of
trying to "literally take away meals from kids," and Representatives
John Lewis and Charles Rangel comparing Republicans to Nazis.
Interestingly, Sesno queried Mrs. Clinton about the baseball strike well
before Whitewater, which wasn't mentioned until the very last minutes of
the program.
Kurtz's Collapsing Canons.
"It is a time-tested journalistic ritual that in the
heady aftermath of victory, the hot new pol enjoys a period of
hagiography," wrote Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz in the
February 26 Post Magazine. Kurtz suggested "14 rules of media behavior."
Under Rule 2, "Politicians on the rise are invariably portrayed in
glowing terms," Kurtz declared: "The pattern was particularly striking
in Gingrich's case because the very same elements of a career that had
drawn so much derision were now cast in a more admiring light...The
unusual twist in Gingrich's case is that the gushing profiles took a bit
longer than usual to develop."
How long? Kurtz recalled: "First there was a wave of
stories with ominous headlines, like Newsweek's `How Normal is Newt?'
and `The Gingrich That Stole Christmas' and Time's `Uncle Scrooge.'" He
also noted that Sam Donaldson told Gingrich on ABC's This Week: "A lot
of people are afraid of you. They think you're a bombthrower; worse,
you're an intolerant bigot. Speak to them." In relating Gingrich's anger
at a January Washington Post article, Kurtz wrote: "Gingrich got his
licks in all right, but a not terribly surprising thing happened: The
press made him the issue. `Newt Gets Nasty,' blared the cover of
Newsweek. Inside, in a story headlined `Gingrich Goes Ballistic,' the
piece began: `Was Newt Gingrich experiencing meltdown? Last Friday it
looked and sounded that way.'" When can Gingrich expect the "glowing
Bryant and Ted's Excellent Interview.
Many reporters complain there's too much partisanship
in American politics, but they may be one of the causes. Bryant Gumbel's
interview with Sen. Ted Kennedy on March 15 serves as a good example.
Gumbel's questions were more partisan than Kennedy's answers. The Today
co-host asked: "You've talked about the Republicans declaring war on
working families and war on children. Are there enough moderate
Republicans in the Senate to tone down some of the harshest cuts that
are certain to come out of the House?"
Gumbel also queried: "Are you disappointed that the
public seems to -- I don't know if care so little is the appropriate
term -- but not seem to care as much as they have in the past?" Gumbel
mused to Kennedy that minority Cabinet members seem to have ethics
problems not because of their actions, but because of racism. "Do you
think, Senator, they are being held to a higher standard in Washington
than their white predecessors?"
Outrage or Not...
When is a slur not a slur? When it's done by a liberal
Democrat. On March 21, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) took to the House floor
against the Contract with America and paraphrased a famous statement
against the Nazis during World War II: "They're coming for our children,
they're coming for the poor, they're coming for the sick, the elderly,
and the disabled." NBC's Jim Miklaszewski aired Lewis's remarks on the
March 22 Today, then quoted Republican Clay Shaw calling them "an
outrage." Miklaszewski suggested the point was up for discussion:
"Outrage or not, Democratic attempts to paint Republicans as heartless
budget cutters are beginning to hit home." The closest thing to network
criticism of Lewis's remarks came from Miklaszewski and CBS's Bob
Schieffer describing the debate as "nasty." On ABC's Good Morning
America, Bob Zelnick called it "emotional."
Compare that to Dick Armey's January controversy over
the name of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), which got big coverage from CBS
and ABC. It led the CBS Evening News January 27. Bob Schieffer called it
a "slur." The same night, Catherine Crier on ABC's World News Tonight
asked: "Was it a slip of the tongue or a sign of deep prejudice? ....Mr.
Armey wields enormous power over all kinds of legislation, including
laws that deal with discrimination and civil rights. What Mr. Armey says
O'Brien for the Defense.
When House Republicans enacted legal reform as an
element of the Contract, they also took on one of Washington's most
powerful lobbies -- the trial lawyers. ABC's legal correspondent Tim
O'Brien also sided with the lawyers, devoting three World News Tonight
reports to debunking the Republican position. Introducing a March 9
story on huge punitive damage awards, Peter Jennings warned of
"misinformation on this subject." O'Brien wondered: "Are the courts
flooded with such potentially devastating suits, as some proponents of
change claim?" He replied: "It is simply not true, according to the
American Bar Association," an opponent of limiting damages. O'Brien
labeled liberal advocacy groups like Public Citizen "consumer groups who
insist the mere threat of punitive damage awards benefits the public."
O'Brien critiqued plans to make losers pay legal costs
in certain suits on March 7: "According to the National Center for State
Courts, there is no litigation explosion...making the loser pay the
winner's legal expenses may reduce the number of lawsuits, but most
consumer groups insist only the wealthy could sue."
On March 13, O'Brien featured a man who went to a
Tampa hospital, "to have a severely infected foot amputated....[but]
doctors amputated the wrong foot." O'Brien stated that the GOP would cap
pain and suffering awards at $250,000, and concluded lawyers "say
Congress should be working to make doctors more accountable for their
mistakes, not less." But Manhattan Institute senior fellow Theodore
Olson wrote in the March 27 Wall Street Journal that the amputee "was
losing both legs...the question was in what order they would go." Hardly
the malpractice horror story portrayed by ABC and the trial lawyers.
Go Away, Mohair Muckrakers!
Remember ABC's Sam Donaldson yelling questions to
President Reagan, grilling guests on This Week with David Brinkley, or
ambushing evil doers on PrimeTime Live? When a March 16 Wall Street
Journal story revealed that Donaldson received federal mohair subsidies
for his New Mexico ranch, Donaldson got some of his own treatment.
Journal reporter Bruce Ingersoll found that according to USDA data,
Donaldson "is the third-largest recipient of wool and mohair payments in
Lincoln County....Over the last two years, $97,000 in subsidy checks
have gone to Mr. Donaldson's address in the Virginia suburbs of
Donaldson responded March 19 on This Week with David
Brinkley, declaring: "This isn't a tax dodge for me. I operate that
ranch within the system that exists, and it's a system that depends on
farm subsidies, which if you watch this show, you know I've opposed, and
opposed repeatedly. We need to reform them." But Donaldson didn't show
his typical reformist zeal when New York Post reporters tried to reach
him for comment. Donaldson told the Post: "To ask me to help cooperate
in my own daily execution is not realistic." Upon learning a Post
reporter with a camera had approached his ranch, he warned: "We are
going to call the sheriff and have them arrested if they persist." A
sheriff's deputy did confront the reporter. Just the sort of reaction
Donaldson decried as a journalist.
CNN demonstrated that even labeling is considered
name-calling -- when the label is denigrating to a Democrat. After his
speech to the nation April 6, Newt Gingrich did an interview with CNN
during which he called the Democratic leadership "a small, left-wing
clique." That offended Bob Franken, who asked Gingrich: "Why would
somebody want to sit down with you -- and this gets to basic Newt
Gingrich -- why would someone want to sit down with you who you call
names, you call left-wing, for instance...."
Are Republican calls to cut government hostile to
blacks? Newsweek's Thomas Rosenstiel thought so, writing in the
magazine's March 6 issue: "There are signs that significant numbers of
Hispanics and African-Americans are becoming more conservative. But
judging from the actions taken by House Republicans last week, the
policies of Gingrich's party seem destined to drive minorities right
back to the Democrats." Rosenstiel cited $17 billion in recissions the
House passed "fell on the poor, a disproportinate number of whom are
minorities... Democrats called the one-sided cuts 'unconscionable.'"
Rosenstiel also suggested Phil Gramm's and other conservatives' calls to
eliminate affirmative action programs are just cynical ploys for white
votes: "Attacking affirmative action, they know, will please angry white
male voters who abandoned the Democrats in the 1994 congressional
On March 20, Time ran a similarly themed article by
Jeffrey Birnbaum. Titled "Turning Back the Clock," Birnbaum saw
Republican reforms as dangerous to blacks. "Coming on top of GOP efforts
to balance the federal budget by cutting programs for the poor, the
latest broadsides against affirmative action are being viewed as
insiduous -- and potentially dangerous -- by the minority community."
Amount of Coverage Declines Noticeably on
Morning Progams, Magazine Shows
Religion on TV News: Still Scarce
In mid-November, President Clinton and the GOP
Congress disagreed over federal spending levels, causing a brief partial
shutdown of the federal government. Clinton objected to what he called
GOP cuts in education and Medicare and a hike in Medicare premiums.
Republicans countered that they were actually increasing spending and
the premium in their plan was merely $11 per month higher than
Did the networks give equal weight to both sides?
MediaWatch analysts reviewed all of the stories on evening newscasts
(ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, CNN's World News, NBC
Nightly News) about the budget impasse from the day before the
government shutdown (November 13) through the day after its end
(November 20). Of the 104 stories during the study period, not a single
one mentioned the actual levels of spending in either the President's
plan or the Republican plan. Not a single story questioned the
President's rhetoric about "destroying" Medicare, when Republicans were
proposing Medicare increases.
The study also found that reporters promoted the
Democratic spin on the impact of the shutdown on federal workers and the
Spending. Not one of the 104 stories pointed out that
Republicans were proposing to spend $2.6 trillion more over the next
seven years than had been spent over the last seven, going from $9.5
trillion to $12.1 trillion. None reported that under the GOP plan, the
annual budget in 2002 would be $267 billion higher than in 1996.
No story pointed out that on Medicare alone,
Republicans would spend $86 billion more in 2002 than in 1995, allowing
the program to grow more than 6 percent annually. None reported that
spending per Medicare recipient would soar from $4,800 to $7,100. Only
one story mentioned that the difference between the two parties on
Medicare premiums -- the reason Clinton gave for his veto -- was only
$11 per month.
Instead viewers heard about "cuts." Dan Rather
reported on the 16th: "Republicans were still pumping out a stopgap
budget certain to draw another presidential veto, a bill containing what
President Clinton called tonight, quote, critical cuts in Medicare and
other programs."
The next day, Tom Brokaw announced: "The House today
did pass a bill to balance the budget in seven years with major cutbacks
in big government programs and a tax cut of $245 billion." On the same
show, Lisa Myers said "the President has promised to veto the bill
because of what he calls extreme cutbacks in Medicare, Medicaid,
education, and the environment."
Federal Workers. There was near-universal sympathy for
furloughed federal workers. In all, there were 29 soundbites from
laid-off federal workers. CBS's Bob McNamara asserted: "There is
frustration, too, for the people who get paid to solve these kinds of
problems, the federal workers sent home to cool their heels while
Congress and the President bicker over the budget."
According to NBC's John Palmer on November 18, "To
Tony Chapello and his pregnant wife Kelly, both furloughed by the Social
Security office in Kansas City, the shutdown is more than an
inconvenience." She told viewers: "I worry about the medical bills, and
I want to do the baby's room." Unlike the private sector, laid-off
government employees are later paid. Only CNN's Brooks Jackson, on
November 13, accurately described the time off: "In effect a paid
Services. There were 24 stories about the effect of
the shutdown on public parks and public services. All but one of them
highlighted inconveniences to the public. None explored whether
bureaucrats, in deciding what services to shut down, had pursued a
"Washington Monument strategy" of stopping high-profile public services
to increase public outrage.
Most reporters simply assumed the shutdown was a
problem for the public. CNN anchor Kathleen Kennedy, the night before
the shutdown, warned that "the echoes of a government shutdown would be
felt from coast to coast. The gates of Lady Liberty at New York would be
closed. The same will happen at many other tourist attractions,
including the Washington Monument, Bunker Hill, and many national parks.
A lot of tourist plans will have to be changed if a shutdown occurs."
On November 17 ABC's Peter Jennings opined that "as is
evident to a lot of you, a lot of people around the country are already
paying deeply for this budget impasse." According to Brokaw on November
17: "While the shutdown of the federal government goes on, it is
beginning to have a major ripple effect well beyond Washington....Around
the country a lot of people were feeling the pain that even a partial
shutdown is bringing."
Over at CBS, Linda Douglass, in addition to national
parks, found a unique angle: killer toys. "Imported Christmas toys,
which could be unsafe, are not being examined by safety inspectors," she
fretted on the 16th. Bob McNamara insisted that "for Americans inside
and outside the federal bureaucracy, this week has been a hard lesson on
what happens when big government goes away." Other reporters, such as
ABC's John Martin and NBC's Lisa Myers, focused on passport offices
being closed. Martin complained on November 13: "Journalists won't be
able to ask questions at a State Department briefing, which will be
cancelled without electricians to light the room."
No story explored why it was that these high-profile
services came to be deemed non-essential. Why were passport offices and
the State Department's press office deemed non-essential when, according
to The Washington Post, about 70 percent of State's employees were
considered essential and ordered to work? Or why were some parks not
closed until the third or fourth day of the shutdown? Could it be for
visuals of angry tourists?
The networks were also one-sided in selecting the
"people on the street" they aired about the shutdown. A USA
Today/CNN/Gallup poll, reported November 15 that 51 percent considered
the shutdown either a crisis (11 percent) or a major problem (40
percent). Forty-seven percent of the public considered the shutdown
either a minor problem (33 percent) or not a problem at all (14
percent). So about half of the citizens interviewed would not consider
the shutdown a problem, right? Wrong. Of the 74 "people on the street"
interviewed, 67 considered the shutdown to be a problem. Only seven
didn't consider the shutdown a problem.
Only on network newscasts would spending increases be
called cuts, would people paid to take the day off be portrayed as
victims, and would half the public's opinion be ignored during a
government shutdown.
the Bright Side
Old Programs Never Die
After a series of reports bemoaning House Republicans'
$17 billion in spending cuts, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff on March 20
found a glistening bucket of government fat neither party is willing to
cut, the Department of Veterans Affairs: "Paying benefits to America's
former servicemen and women -- including to people...whose ailments
aren't war-related -- now costs $38 billion a year. That's a big ticket
item, even for the Feds. But at a time when Washington is desperately
seeking spending cuts, the mere suggestion that taxpayers can't afford
such a high Veteran's tab summons one of the country's most effective
lobbies into action."
Isikoff found "the VA has spent nearly $2.8 billion
since 1990 on new hospitals, clinics and nursing homes to expand a
system that's actually underused," as the number of veterans declines,
from 28 million in 1980 to 23 million this year. Isikoff focused on the
VA hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, "a $29 million-a-year,
full-service medical center." Though admissions have fallen by a third
since 1990, and three other VA hospitals serve the state, Isikoff noted,
"VA facilities are among the government goodies hardest to take away --
Congress hasn't shut one down since the Johnson administration."
Values and Victims
U.S. News & World Report writer Wray Herbert took a
sobering look March 6 at what social critics are saying about the
breakdown of national identity. Herbert found that "a wide array of
cultural critics believe this public uneasiness reflects some gut-level
sense that the right relationship between citizen, state and civil
society has been distorted or perhaps even lost."
Citing liberal critic Christopher Lasch, Herbert
wrote, "the new elitists are often those who feel most free to espouse
traditional liberal values -- integrated schools, wealth redistribution,
preferential hiring policies -- even though those politics don't affect
their own daily lives. They then stand above the fray as different
groups of less privileged citizens fight over the very real consequences
of those policies, often dividing across racial lines."
Herbert got specific: "Schools, for example, have
become social-service agencies and self-esteem clinics and are so
overburdened with therapeutic tasks that they can't perform their
primary function -- teaching -- very well....Similarly, the institutions
of government spend less time governing and more time attending to the
bruised feelings of various classes of victims."
Back Page
Computer Forums Reveal ABC Biases
Letting Down Their Hair
The ABC "On Demand" section on America Online is the
newest location for reporters to let down their liberal hair. In a
January 5 Online Auditorium, where subscribers can pose questions to an
ABC reporter, Carole Simpson warned: "I fear that the Contract with
America, if enacted, may be detrimental to the family, especially those
single women and their children...my fear is that Mr. Gingrich, given
his history, may increase what I see as a new mean-spiritedness in this
country...I would like to think that the American people care about poor
people, about sick people, about homeless people, and about poor
children. I am shocked by the new mean-spiritedness." Simpson also
claimed: "I think the coverage of the new Republican leadership has been
extremely positive."
Day One reporter John Hockenberry also played the
worry wart on March 2: "I think American politics thrives on ignorance
today. I think American policy works without a backup plan as long as
people are so unrepentantly uninformed." Hockenberry added: "I think
that capitalism is inherently amoral and it is folly to expect that a
system run on greed will be able to adopt some virtuous precepts to
prevent the violations of human rights." Of Clinton's political
prospects, Hockenberry wrote: "Faced with the choice of a crowd-pleasing
fanatic trying to look like a Republican and about a hundred real Repubs...it
looks tough to me." Asked if the Contract with America would work, he
joked: "Yes. I'm moving to Switzerland."
In the March 23 online session, ABC News Capitol Hill
reporter John Cochran claimed: "Sen. Bob Packwood...is certainly
conservative on most issues. But Packwood is extremely dubious about any
tax cut until we are well on the road to balancing the budget."
According to National Journal's 1992 ratings, the socially liberal
Packwood drew a 54 percent conservative score on economic issues,
compared to 89 percent for Bob Dole.
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Republican Mitt Romney demanded on Monday that President Barack Obama back away from his persistent attacks on Romney's record at Bain Capital, advising that it would be better "if you spent some time speaking about your record."
"What does it say about a president whose record is so poor that all he can do in this campaign is attack me," Romney said in a nationally broadcast interview.
In a separate interview, Obama said he has run mostly positive campaign ads but said the media largely has ignored them.
In his interview on Fox News' "Fox & Friends," Romney was asked whether Obama should apologize for statements and campaign ads suggesting that Romney has not been truthful in his accounts of his record as head of Bain Capital, a private equity firm.
Romney responded: "I think when people accuse you of a crime you have every reason to go after them pretty hard and I'm going to continue going after him." He defended his business record but did not demand that Obama apologize. Romney also declined to make a fuller disclosure of tax returns than he has already committed himself to releasing.
The latest exchanges came Monday as Obama prepared for campaign appearances in Ohio, a critical state for both candidates, and Romney was to join Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on a fundraising trip.
Obama's campaign has been arguing that Romney's record at Bain Capital indicates that jobs were shipped overseas under his watch. That pitch has been given a lot of attention at a time when the nation's unemployment rate remains above 8 percent and millions of people are out of work.
Asked about this, Romney said he was "very proud of the record I had in my business career." He added: "I'd say to the president, wouldn't it be interesting Mr. President, wouldn't it be interesting if you spent some time speaking about your record."
Romney also pressed a new line of attack against Obama, saying the Democratic president had put the interests of his wealthy campaign donors above the middle class.
"When billions upon billions of dollars are given by the Obama administration to the businesses of campaign contributors, that's a real problem, particularly at time when the middle class is really suffering in this country," the former Massachusetts governor said. "This is a tough time for the people of America. But if you're a campaign contributor to Barack Obama your business may stand to get billions or hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from the government. I think it's wrong. I think it stinks to high heaven and I think the administration needs to explain how it is they would consider giving money to campaign contributors' businesses."
Romney didn't say it, but he was referring to Solyndra, a solar energy company that received a federal loan under Obama's economic stimulus but went bankrupt last year, laying off its 1,100 workers and leaving taxpayers on the hook for more than $500 million. An Obama campaign donor had invested millions of dollars in the company.
Obama's team dismissed Romney's latest criticism of the president.
White House spokesman Jay Carney noted that Republican-led House committees have examined potential conflicts and found no evidence of improper behavior.
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki, who joined Carney on Air Force One as the president flew to Ohio, said Romney was trying to change the subject to avoid the questions about his time at Bain Capital.
"He has created this cloud of secrecy around his campaign that I promise you people in states across the country are very concerned about," she said.
Obama, in a taped interview broadcast Monday on "CBS This Morning," was asked about the number of negative ads his campaign has been running against Romney.
Obama said "we've done a whole slew of positive ads" that talk about the need for changes to the education system and the tax code, how to rebuild America and how to promote energy development.
"So those just don't get attention in the news," Obama said.
Romney also was asked about statements by Obama supporters, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, that he "stop whining" about the Obama attacks. He responded: "The best offense is to look at the president's record. ... He just hasn't been able to do the job he was going to try and do."
"The president has only one thing going and that is constant attacks on me," Romney said. "They're dishonest, they're misdirected and I think the American people recognize that kind of politics is something of the past. It may work in Chicago, but it's not going to work across America."
Romney refused calls by Democrats — and some Republicans — to release several years of tax returns. He said the Obama campaign was only looking "for more things for their opposition research to make a mountain out of and to distort and to be dishonest about." Romney has released his 2010 return and has pledged to release a complete return for 2011, but no more.
Romney's campaign said Sunday that Obama will say anything to get re-elected and should say he's sorry for attacking the Republican's successful career at Bain Capital.
"No, we will not apologize," the president responded, adding that if Romney wants credit for his business leadership, he also needs to take responsibility.
Questions about Romney's tenure at Bain Capital, the fortune he earned there, foreign bank accounts and his refusal to release more of his tax returns have dogged the former Massachusetts governor. Romney insists he left the firmin February 1999 to take over the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, but documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate he was still in charge as late as 2001.
Romney's advisers on Sunday offered fresh explanations for the discrepancy.
"He actually retired retroactively at that point," Romney adviser Ed Gillespie said. "He ended up not going back to the firm after his time in Salt Lake City. So he was actually retired from Bain."
A second adviser, Kevin Madden, said Romney had no choice but to have his name listed on SEC documents as he sought to transfer the company's leadership to partners.
"The reason that there is a document that had ... his signature is because, during that transition from 1999 to 2002 ... there was a duty to sign those documents," Madden said.
Romney's exact role at the firm between 1999 and 2001 is important not only because critics have raised questions about his truthfulness, but also because Bain was sending U.S. jobs overseas during the period. Romney has sought to distance himself from that period in Bain's history, saying on financial disclosure forms and in a recent blitz of TV interviews that he had no active role in the company as of February 1999.
"I had no role whatsoever in the management of Bain Capital after February of 1999," he said Friday. "I was an owner, and being a shareholder doesn't mean you're running the business."
That answer didn't satisfy Obama.
"Mr. Romney claims he's Mr. Fix-It for the economy because of his business experience, so I think voters entirely legitimately want to know what is exactly his business experience," Obama told WAVY-TV in Portsmouth, Va., in an interview taped Saturday and posted on the station's website Sunday.
"Mr. Romney is now claiming he wasn't there at the time except his filings with the SEC listing says he was the CEO, chairman and president of the company."
Gillespie appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" and CNN's "State of the Union. Madden spoke on CBS' "Face the Nation."

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Thursday is the day the sky falls, the seas boil, and dogs and cats begin living together. At least that's the case according to the 83,000 Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) subscribers that stormed the Internet on Aug. 5 to post angry comments on the streaming video company's Facebook page and official blog. Those loyal — not to mention entitled — customers were incensed after the company announced in July that it was overhauling the structure and pricing of subscriptions to its service. The change finally goes into effect tomorrow.
Instead of paying $9.99 per month for one by-mail DVD rental and unlimited access to Netflix's streaming movies and television across many platforms — from Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone to Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox 360 — Netflix users must now pay $7.99 for each individual service. Many more subscribers have voiced their outrage over the change since that initial announcement. From their point of view, the shift represents what is close to an unprecedented 50% increase in subscription fees.
Investors understandably are skittish about the change. Since the announcement, Netflix shares have fallen from an all-time high of nearly $305 to $205 by Aug. 22. According to research firm The Diffusion Group, Netflix might shed as many as 2.5 million yearly subscribers to its service because of the change, which would be an estimated loss of $300 million in annual revenue.
Netflix already is rebounding, though, with shares trading around $236 as of Tuesday's market close. The Diffusion Group's estimates also represent a worst-case scenario — they presuppose Netflix won't gain millions more subscribers to replace any that decide to jump ship following the subscription change. Given the new content that likely will come to Netflix's streaming service following the change, subscriber growth is practically a guarantee.
Here are the facts: Netflix began preparing both its subscribers and its investors for this change almost a year in advance. Company CEO Reed Hastings made subtle but clear statements during an earnings conference call in October 2010, describing Netflix for the first time as "a streaming company, which also offers DVD by mail." This coincided with Netflix testing a $7.99 streaming-only subscription option in the U.S. — a model that now will be Netflix's primary business.
DVD and Blu-ray rentals and sales might not be dead yet, but they certainly can't sustain the home video market by themselves. Netflix's growth from 10 million subscribers in 2009 — just one year after it began offering streaming video on a few platforms — to around 25 million today guaranteed that streaming video will be the primary business model for home video going forward. The change in subscription pricing was inevitable and represents the next phase in a strong company's promising evolution.
There is more on Netflix's horizon than a pricing shakeup. The company already is testing new interfaces that likely will lead to a wider variety of streaming subscription packages, such as family plans. When Netflix begins diversifying its services, increasing prices slightly in addition to offering a wider selection of titles, it finally will be on its way to competing head-to-head with cable providers like Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) that have grown rich by offering its audience variety through premium services.
That loud bang on Thursday morning won't be the sound of a 21-gun salute for Netflix. It'll be the sound of a starting gun.
As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at @ajohnagnello and become a fan of InvestorPlace on Facebook.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution has signed forward Matt Horth. Horth has been in preseason camp with the Revs following a guest training stint with the club last fall.
Horth, 23, most recently played for North American Soccer League's Atlanta Silverbacks, where he played two seasons. In 49 appearances, he scored 18 goals in 2011 and 2012. Last season, he scored 10 goals and added one assist, following an eight-goal, one-assist effort as a rookie in 2011.
"We're pleased to add a young forward in Matt to the roster," Revolution General Manager Michael Burns said. "He is a talented young player who had had a strong record of scoring goals in the NASL. We believe has the potential to take the next step and do well for our club."
Horth played collegiately Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., where he was a four-year starter. In 74 career appearances (72 starts), Horth scored 36 goals and added 20 assists and was a three-time All-New England honoree and a two-time first-team all-conference performer. Horth also spent time with PDL clubs Cape Cod Crusaders (2008), Southern California Seahorses (2009) and Cleveland Internationals (2010) while in college.
Transaction: New England Revolution (MLS) – Signed F Matt Horth
Position: Forward
Date of Birth: May 3, 1989 (Cleveland, Ohio)
Hometown: Akron, Ohio
Height: 6-3
Weight: 195 lbs.
Previous Club: Atlanta Silverbacks (NASL)
College: Gordon College
Youth Club: Ambassadors FC
Nationality: USA
How Acquired: Signed by the Revolution on January 25, 2013
In-Season Jersey Number: TBA


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My wife and I recently completed a five-week, business-and-vacation trip of 5,000 miles through the Northwest and into British Columbia. During that trip, I did some club consulting and met with more than 100 club owners and managers at a regional association's summer conference. This trip followed several other spring and early-summer trips to the Upper Midwest, the South and the East Coast. Here are some random observations from those visits.
Americans are pitifully fat. Mind you, I am far from a perfect physical specimen. My body could stand to lose that extra 18 pounds that all the charts tell me would get me down to my "ideal weight." But, folks, the average American is in sad shape, and it looks to me like he or she is 30, 40, 50 or more pounds beyond a safe norm. On vacation, I watched ton after ton of excess adipose tissue waddle its way into freeway rest stops, mountain campgrounds and beach-front bathing areas. I watched a woman on a Moped have to be pushed along the beach by her fellow bikers because the vehicle just sank into the sand under her bulk. I saw another fellow literally side-slip himself through an ice cream store door — only to order a quadruple-scoop cone! And another heavier-than-healthy lady of about 40 got out of her car, walked with her husband about 50 yards and then retired to her electric wheelchair to go shopping on a resort main street. Lastly, I can't tell you the number of kids I saw who could barely move around due to their excess weight.
Perhaps the last thing that the average American wants to engage in is exercise inside four walls. While we allegedly enjoy having roughly one out of every 14 Americans as members in our clubs, my calculations tell me that five out of every 14 are chronically obese, and another five out of that 14 are seriously overweight or headed there fast. That apparently leaves us with the remaining three of 14 who are relatively healthy but not members of clubs. At our industry-predictable closing rate of 40 percent and an industry-published annual attrition rate of 40 percent, even if we launch a tremendously successful campaign immediately, we are likely to garner only another 38 million fitness facility members in the next five years, while at the same time losing about 16 million more of the members we presently have. In other words, we are predictably on the downside part of the membership-joining curve in our industry, and the vastly touted association goal of 100 million members by 2010 now stands in jeopardy. We are more likely to be at 63 million to 65 million members within five years.
Clubs are suffering from the overbuilding phenomenon that has taken hold in our industry in this decade. Club owner after club owner approached me during the aforementioned conference — many of them solid-operating, successful old timers — with one question: "What am I going to do for marketing?" They then went on to tell me their versions of how their marketplace, once their domain, has been oversaturated and dissipated with club offerings of every type, kind and size. They also commiserated with me how their efforts at retention and profit-center creation are not making enough of a difference to offset the dwindling margins from membership dues.
Clubs also face another problem — a shortage of qualified management talent in an industry crying for better leadership. The leading headhunter in our industry tells me he has a severe scarcity of qualified talent to fill open positions across the national club scene. Owners and club managers bemoan the fact that they cannot attract even barely qualified personnel to occupy the jobs available in their facilities. New club building, while down from its top of 12 percent or more in the last few years, is still at a high-single-digit-percentage-growth pace, and we do not have managers to staff the current facility requirements, much less additional clubs. Management incomes, while considerably improved in the past decade, do not come close to those in other service-based industries, and benefit packages and career opportunities certainly trail those of most other seasoned businesses.
An amazing amount of repetitiveness exists in our facilities. Most clubs look the same, feel the same and offer the same lineup of aging menus like standard membership orientations and stock-in-trade classes. Folks, we have a problem. Innovation in the fitness industry is standing still, we aren't getting people inside our doors, membership is slowing, supply versus demand is on the side of supply and clubs aren't building management for the future. What are we going to do about it?
Michael Scott Scudder owns and operates MSS FitBiz Connection, an online-based club consulting and training service. Scudder can be reached at 505-690-5974 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Find out from local government emergency management how you will be notified for each kind of disasters, both natural and man-made. You should also inquire about alert and warning systems for workplace, schools and other locations. Methods of getting your attention vary from community to community. One common method is to broadcast via emergency radio and TV broadcasts. You might hear a special siren, or get a telephone call, or in rare circumstances, volunteers and emergency workers may go door-to-door.
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The Swansboro Area Development Foundation continues to show its support for one of the biggest community projects for the town.
SWANSBORO � The Swansboro Area Development Foundation continues to show its support for one of the biggest community projects for the town.
President Dr. Tina Siegel and SADF members attended the March meeting of the Board of Commissioners to present the town with a check for $15,000.
The money is the latest installment toward the foundation�s pledge of $100,000 for the construction of the new Swansboro Recreation Center, which opened in January.
The recreation center is the centerpiece of major upgrades that have taken place at Municipal Park.
The town received a $500,000 grant from the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund to help the town complete $1 million in major improvements at the 17-acre park.
The foundation stepped up in the beginning to back the project and has now raised $85,000 toward its pledge.
�Little by little we�ve been raising money for the project by offering events and activities for the community,� Siegel said.
Fundraising events for April include the April 12 event Find Your Inner Picasso, an adult painting night, and a comedy night on April 27.
After several years of fundraising for the project, seeing the recreation center now in use by the public has been an exciting reward, Siegel said.
�It has been a treasured project and everybody loves it,� she said.
As the foundation nears its pledge commitment, it is also contributing to the recreation project with the construction of a courtyard at the side entrance of the center.
The focal point of the courtyard is an honor/memorial brick wall made from donor bricks the public can buy to pay tribute to friends and family in the community.
An initial order of 110 commemorative bricks helped to build the center wall that includes seating, and additional bricks are being sold for two side walls yet to be built.
Kendra Plymel of Rush Construction in Jacksonville donated labor to complete the initial wall, and users of the neighboring skateboard park will help in putting up a shade tree for the courtyard, Siegel said.
�The whole community is getting involved,� she said.
Details on the courtyard wall and how to purchase bricks can be found on the foundation�s website at sadfnc.org.
Contact Daily News reporter Jannette Pippin at 910-382-2557 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Pekovic and Rubio power Timberwolves past Thunder
Minneapolis, MN – Nikola Pekovic recorded a double-double with 22 points and 15 rebounds and Ricky Rubio added 17 points and seven assists as the Minnesota Timberwolves edged the Oklahoma City Thunder, 101-93, on Friday at Target Center.
Chase Budinger supplied 13 points off the bench, while Andrei Kirilenko chipped in with 12 for the Timberwolves, who have won two of three.
Kevin Durant scored 36 points and grabbed seven boards for the Thunder, who had a three-game winning streak come to an end. Russell Westbrook had 18 points to go along with nine assists and Serge Ibaka had a double-double with 10 points and 11 boards in defeat.
"You get up for every game...but tonight we ran into a team that just played better," Durant said. "It was just a little bump in the road."
Early in the fourth, a pair of Durant free throws minutes closed the gap to 84-81, but the Thunder quickly hit a cold streak and failed to find the scoreboard for just over 4 1/2 minutes. Meanwhile, Minnesota scored eight straight before Ibaka's jumper made it a 92-83 contest with five minutes remaining.
Once again Durant brought the Thunder back, this time within five with 3 1/2 minutes to play, but the determined Timberwolves didn't back down and stepped up defensively to close the contest out.
Kirilenko's tip-in shot that made it 95-87 with 1 1/2 minutes remaining helped secure the victory for good.
"I'm proud of the way our guys played," Timberwolves head coach Rick Adelman said. "It was a solid win against one of the best teams in the league."
After Minnesota led by five at the break, Westbrook hit a triple early in the third to tie the contest at 56-56. The home team, though, then responded with a 16-7 flurry over the next four-plus minutes to take a 72-63 lead on two Rubio free throws.
The margin quickly closed as Durant's runner at the end of the third brought the visitors within 80-77.
The contest was tied 23-23 after one quarter and the Timberwolves took a 53-48 edge into the break thanks to closing the first half on a 16-11 surge in the final 5:44.
Game Notes
Oklahoma City is 21-15 as the visitor this season ... The season series is tied 2-2. Minnesota found victory in the first matchup on Dec. 20 ... The Thunder had held their last four opponents to 90 points or fewer ... Minnesota had a 21-15 advantage on second chance points.


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Mother Arrested for Having Kids Fight School Bus Bully [VIDEO, POLL]
What would you do if your 5-year-old child told you that another child on the school bus stabbed her in the stomach with a pencil? Well, a 26-year-old Arkansas woman and mother of three, Tameka McClure, reacted in a way that got her arrested.
Ms. McClure allegedly angrily got onto the school bus and confronted the 9-year-old male bully that her daughter told her about. Afterward, she reportedly told both her older children (age 7 and 12) to "handle that [expletive]!"
Police obtained footage of the entire incident from the bus cameras and the video shows McClure telling her kids to fight the boy, and also shows the bus driver repeatedly asking her to leave the bus. After several minutes, the bus driver did call for help.
An unidentified adult male broke up the fighting and the 9-year-old had few injuries.
Police did note that there were several marks on the 5-year-old's body indicating that she was in-fact assaulted with a pencil.
Tameka McClure, now facing charges by a county prosecutor, said:
You don't put your hands on a 5-year-old. I'm not worried about it because I know we were not in the wrong. Because when it's all said and done, why am I being charged for a kid fight?"
No word at this time regarding the school district's punishment for any of the student involved.


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Toomua taking baby steps in comeback
Brumbies playmaker Matt Toomua is more concerned with getting some match fitness under his belt than staking a claim for a Wallabies jumper.
Coach Jake White and former Wallabies mentor Eddie Jones have been among those to predict a break-out year for the 22-year-old, who missed all but three matches last year due to a knee reconstruction.
The Australian number 10 jersey has been worn by many in recent years and an opportunity is there for both Toomua and fellow Brumbies playmaker Christian Lealiifano to stake their claim ahead of the Lions tour and the Rugby Championship.
But Toomua is treating his selection at fly half over Lealiifano to start the year with modest caution and is deliberately avoiding dreams about a Wallabies debut.
"In the past it's very easy to look at stuff like that but I played three games last year and the year before not many more," Toomua said.
"I'm going to concentrate on playing more games and I think this season will be better if I can get at least in double figures in terms of games. I know it's a cliche, but that's all I'm worried about."
Toomua started at fly half in the Brumbies' opening round 24-6 win over Queensland in Canberra on Saturday night, pushing Lealiifano to inside centre.
But Toomua refuses to get ahead of himself despite a promising start against the Reds.
Australia centre Pat McCabe is due back from a neck injury within a month and Toomua says he is on borrowed time in the starting line-up unless he can seize his chance.
"I'm definitely under no illusions. Having Patty out probably helps my situation," he said.
"It's good having Christian there because I know he's every bit as good as any other number 10 in Australia and he keeps me honest."
Jones believes Toomua and Lealiifano can become the best midfield playmaking combination in Australian Super Rugby.
They are certainly tight enough, having come through rehabilitation together last year when Lealiifano missed the back half of 2013 with a broken ankle.
Both ran the ball strongly to the line against the Reds and in the second half gave the ball a bit of width, something that was not always a part of the Brumbies game plan last year when they fell agonisingly short of the finals.
"Hopefully we can keep doing that (spreading wide). As players we always want to do that, but it's a case of making sure you win the game," he said.
"It's our second year in terms of the team getting together and hopefully that will allow us to play a bit more footy. I know how good Christian is at 10 let alone at 12."
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As well as appearing on stage, Ross has appeared on Have I Got News for You (BBC One), The Graham Norton Show (BBC One) and QI (BBC One). Internationally renowned, Ross has won fans and plaudits the world over, having completed 6 smash-hit Australian tours, and performed as far afield as Singapore, Hong Kong, Montreal and Budapest.
'The wizard haired Geordie remains in full possession of his nimble-witted, slacker-minded improv skills. One of comedy's greatest marvels' (The Daily Telegraph)
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'Few comedians can quip about dating show Take Me Out one minute and thought experiment Schrodinger's Cat the next' (London Evening Standard).
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Syrian anti-government activists accused the regime of carrying out a toxic gas attack that killed at least 100 people, including many children, during intense artillery and rocket barrages Wednesday.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian anti-government activists accused the regime of carrying out a toxic gas attack that killed at least 100 people, including many children, during intense artillery and rocket barrages Wednesday on the eastern suburbs of Damascus, part of a fierce government offensive in the area.
The attack coincided with the visit by a 20-member U.N. chemical weapons team to Syria to investigate three sites where chemical weapons attacks allegedly occurred over the past year. Their presence raises questions about why the regime — which called the claims of the attack Wednesday "absolutely baseless" — would employ chemical agents at this time.
Shocking images emerged from the purported attack, showing pale, lifeless bodies of children lined up on floors of makeshift hospitals and others with oxygen masks on their faces as they were attended to by paramedics. There was no visible blood or wounds on their skin.
The reported death toll Wednesday would make it the deadliest alleged chemical attack in Syria's civil war. There were conflicting reports, however, as to what exactly transpired. The Syrian government and armed forces called the activists' claims "absolutely baseless."
France's president demanded the United Nations be granted access to the site of Wednesday's alleged attack, while Britain's foreign secretary said if the claims are verified it would mark "a shocking escalation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria."
The Egypt-based Arab League condemned the "horrific attack" against civilians and called for an investigation.
The heavy shelling earlier in the day pounded the capital's eastern suburbs of Zamalka, Arbeen and Ein Tarma, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. The intensive bombardment as well as the sound of fighter jets could be heard by residents of the Syrian capital throughout the night and early Wednesday, and gray smoke hung over towns in the eastern suburbs.
Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said the activists in the area said "poisonous gas" was fired in rockets as well as from the air in the attack. He added that he has documented at least 100 deaths, but said it was no clear whether the victims died from shelling or toxic gas.
Another group, the Local Coordination Committees, said hundreds of people were killed or injured in the shelling and the Syrian National Coalition, Syria's main opposition group in exile, put the number at 1,300. The group said it was basing its claim on accounts and photographs by activists on the ground.
Such different figures from activists groups are common in the immediate aftermaths of attacks in Syria, where the government restricts foreign and domestic reporting.
Syria is said to have one of the world's largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin. The government refuses to confirm or denies it possesses such weapons.
In June, the U.S. said it had conclusive evidence that Assad's regime used chemical weapons against opposition forces. That crossed what President Barack Obama called a "red line," prompting a U.S. decision to begin arming rebel groups, although that has not happened yet.
An opposition activist and a pharmacist in the town of Arbeen who identified himself as Abu Ahmad, which is not his real name, said he attended to dozens of injured people in a field hospital after the shelling on Zamalka and Ein Tarma early Wednesday, and said many were moved to Arbeen.
He said bodies of 63 of the dead had indications of a chemical weapons attack but he could not confirm this.
"Their mouths were foaming, their pupils were constricted, and those who were brought in while still alive could not draw their breaths and died subsequently," he told The Associated Press via Skype. "The skin around their eyes and noses was greyish."
Abu Ahmad, who declined to give his real name fearing for his own safety, said he based his belief that the symptoms could indicate a chemical weapon attack because he had attended to two victims two months ago brought in from Jobar, a neighborhood in Damascus, who had the same symptoms and were believed to have been injured in a chemical attack.
Activists in Zamalka told Abu Ahmed that an additional 200 people died in that town on Wednesday. Arbeen is 5 kilometers to the northeast of Damascus.
The Syrian government denied the reports of Wednesday's chemical weapons attack.
"They are an attempt to divert the U.N. commission on chemical weapons from carrying out its mission," the state-run SANA news agency said, quoting an unnamed government official, as is its standard practice.
The head of the U.N. team in Syria to investigate previous claims of alleged chemical attacks said he wants to look into the latest claims.
Speaking to Swedish broadcaster SVT, Ake Sellstrom said the high numbers of killed and wounded being reported "sound suspicious."
"It looks like something we need to look into," Sellstrom, who is Swedish, was quoted as saying.
He said a formal request from a member state would have to go through the U.N. channels and Syria would need to agree — and there is no guarantee that it would.
France said they will ask the United Nations to visit the site of Wednesday's alleged attack.
President Francois Hollande, speaking at a regular Cabinet meeting, said the latest allegations "require verification and confirmation," according to government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.
Hollande would ask the U.N. to go to the site "to shed full light" on the allegations.
The Syrian government has long denied claims by the opposition on chemical weapons use, saying rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad's government have used such weapons.
Following Wednesday's reports, the Observatory called upon the U.N. team in Syria and all international organizations "to visit the stricken areas and to guarantee that medical and relief supplies reach the people as soon as possible." It also called for an investigation into the attack.
Mohammed Saeed, an activist in the area, told The Associated Press via Skype that hundreds of dead and injured people were rushed to six makeshift hospitals in the eastern suburbs of Damascus.
"This is a massacre by chemical weapons," said Saeed. "The visit by the U.N. team is a joke ... Bashar is using the weapons and telling the world that he does not care."
An activist group in Arbeen posted on its Facebook page pictures purporting to show rows of Syrian children, wrapped in white death shrouds, and others, with chests bared. There appeared to be very little signs of blood or physical wounds on the bodies.
An amateur video showed four children on the floor of a makeshift hospital, apparently unconscious, as a doctor is seen giving them some sort of shots. A bit later, a child starts shaking slowly.
"Is this baby girl a terrorist," a man could be heard saying. "God willing, we will bring his regime down. He (Assad) is killing Sunni children in front of the whole world."
"Oh, Bashar, you son of a dog," says another man. "We will come and get you in your place."
Other videos show bodies of children lined on the floor of a room, showing no signs of life. Very few of them showed signs of blood or physical wounds on their skin.
The photos and videos distributed by activists to support their claims were consistent with AP reporting of shelling in the area, though it was not known if the victims died from a poisonous gas attack.
Sellstrom's team of U.N. experts is meant to probe three sites: the village of Khan al-Assal just west of the embattled northern city of Aleppo and two other locations, which are being kept secret for security reasons.
Wednesday's claim of the chemical attack, if confirmed, would be the most serious since the March 19 incident in Khan al-Assal when at least 30 people were killed. Assad's regime and the rebels have blamed each other for that attack.
Unrest in Syria began in March 2011 and later exploded into a civil war. More than 100,000 people have been killed in the conflict.


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Carboplatin and Paclitaxel or Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine With or Without Bevacizumab as First-Line Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Stage II-IV or Recurrent Stage I Epithelial Ovarian or Fallopian Tube Cancer
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01081262
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : March 5, 2010
Last Update Posted : August 22, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|Borderline Ovarian Mucinous Tumor Ovarian Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma Recurrent Fallopian Tube Carcinoma Recurrent Ovarian Carcinoma Stage IA Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IA Ovarian Cancer Stage IB Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IB Ovarian Cancer Stage IC Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IC Ovarian Cancer Stage IIA Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IIA Ovarian Cancer Stage IIB Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IIB Ovarian Cancer Stage IIC Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IIC Ovarian Cancer Stage IIIA Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IIIA Ovarian Cancer Stage IIIB Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IIIB Ovarian Cancer Stage IIIC Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IIIC Ovarian Cancer Stage IV Fallopian Tube Cancer Stage IV Ovarian Cancer
|Biological: Bevacizumab Drug: Capecitabine Drug: Carboplatin Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Drug: Oxaliplatin Drug: Paclitaxel Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
|Phase 3
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|16 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A GCIG Intergroup Multicenter Phase III Trial of Open Label Carboplatin and Paclitaxel +/- NCI-Supplied Agent: Bevacizumab (NSC #704865) Compared With Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine +/- Bevacizumab as First Line Chemotherapy in Patients With Mucinous Epithelial Ovarian or Fallopian Tube Cancer (MEOC)
|Actual Study Start Date :
|October 12, 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 25, 2015
Experimental: Arm I (carboplatin and paclitaxel)
Patients receive carboplatin IV over 30-60 minutes on day 1 and paclitaxel IV over 3 hours on day 1. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: Carboplatin
Given IV
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Drug: Paclitaxel
Given IV
Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
Experimental: Arm II (oxaliplatin and capecitabine)
Patients receive oxaliplatin IV over 2-6 hours on day 1 and capecitabine PO BID on days 1-14. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: Capecitabine
Given PO
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Drug: Oxaliplatin
Given IV
Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
Experimental: Arm III (carboplatin, paclitaxel, bevacizumab)
Patients receive carboplatin and paclitaxel IV as in arm I and bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients then receive bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes alone on day 1. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Biological: Bevacizumab
Given IV
Drug: Carboplatin
Given IV
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Drug: Paclitaxel
Given IV
Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
Experimental: Arm IV (oxaliplatin, capecitabine, bevacizumab)
Patients receive oxaliplatin and capecitabine as in arm II, and bevacizumab as in arm III.
Biological: Bevacizumab
Given IV
Drug: Capecitabine
Given PO
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Drug: Oxaliplatin
Given IV
Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: Up to 7 years ]Examined using Kaplan-Meier curves. The main effect size will be quantified by the hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval. Multivariate regression will also be used to examine whether there is an interaction between oxaliplatin + capecitabine and bevacizumab.
- Incidence of adverse effects assessed by CTCAE version 4.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 7 years ]Toxicity grades will be tabulated showing the maximum toxicity grade experienced by each patient. The proportions of patients experiencing a maximum grade of 3 or above will be compared between the treatment groups.
- Progression-free survival [ Time Frame: Up to 7 years ]Examined using Kaplan-Meier curves. The main effect size will be quantified by the hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval. Multivariate regression will also be used to examine whether there is an interaction between oxaliplatin + capecitabine and bevacizumab.
- QOL scores assessed using FACT-O TOI and FACT-GOG/Neurotoxicity 4 [ Time Frame: Up to 60 months ]Analysis of the QOL data will use the observed scores at each time point, where available. For simplicity, the change from baseline to each of time points will be examined. However, the main analysis will be a repeated measures analysis (for example, based on a mixed model, Proc Mixed in SAS) used to simultaneously compare all QOL scores between the two treatment groups.
- Response rates assessed by RECIST 1.1 [ Time Frame: Up to 7 years ]The comparison of response rates (proportion of patients with complete and partial response, stable and progressive disease) between treatment groups, will use a chi-square test. The difference in response rates between the groups and the odds ratio (with corresponding 95% confidence intervals) will also be calculated.
- Numbers and percentages of patients with mutations in the Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) oncogene [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Will be tabulated. Interactions between the mutational status of the KRAS oncogene and treatment will be examined.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with a histologic diagnosis of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ovary or fallopian tube with either optimal (=< 1 cm residual disease) or suboptimal residual disease following initial surgery; patients may have measurable disease as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 or no measurable disease
- All patients must have had appropriate surgery including appendectomy (unless patient has history of prior appendectomy) for ovarian or fallopian tube carcinoma with appropriate tissue available for histologic evaluation to confirm diagnosis and stage
- Patients must have stage II-IV disease (new or recurrent-chemonaïve; no brain metastasis) or recurrent stage I disease (chemonaïve)
- Newly diagnosed patients must begin protocol therapy within 10 weeks of primary debulking; for stage I recurrent patients (chemonaïve), they should begin protocol therapy within 14 days of randomization
- Patients must have a negative colonoscopy within 1 year of enrolling in the study
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,500/mcl
- White blood cell (WBC) count >= 3,000/mcl
- Platelets >= 100,000/mcl
- Hemoglobin (Hgb) >= 10 g/dl (can be post transfusion)
- Creatinine less than or equal to 1.5 x institutional upper limit normal (ULN) OR creatinine clearance > 50 cc/min
- Bilirubin =< 1.5 x ULN
- Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) =< to 2.5 x ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase =< to 2.5 x ULN
- Neuropathy (sensory and motor) =< Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) grade 1
- Urine dipstick for proteinuria < 2+; if urine dipstick is >= 2+, 24 hour urine must demonstrate =< 1 g protein in 24 hours OR patients must have a urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) < 1.0 mg/dL
- Prothrombin time (PT) =< 1.5 x ULN
- Activated prothrombin time (APTT) =< 1.5 x ULN
- Patients of childbearing potential must agree to practice an effective form of birth control during study treatment and for six months after completion of treatment
- Patients who have met the pre-entry requirements
- Patients must have signed an approved informed consent and authorization permitting release of personal health information
- Patients with Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) performance grade of 0, 1 or 2
- Patients with life expectancy > 3 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with known colon cancer or history of colon cancer
- Patients with primary peritoneal carcinoma
- Patients with a history of other invasive malignancies, with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer, are excluded if there is any evidence of other malignancy being present within the last 5 years; patients are also excluded if their previous cancer treatment contraindicates this protocol therapy
- Patients who have received chemotherapy, radiotherapy or any investigational treatment for a gynecologic cancer (does include breast cancer) or colorectal cancer prior to enrollment
- Patients with a major surgical procedure anticipated during the course of the study; this includes but is not limited to: abdominal surgery (laparotomy or laparoscopy) such as colostomy or enterostomy reversal, interval or secondary cytoreductive surgery, or second look surgery; please consult with the study chair prior to patient entry for any questions related to the classification of surgical procedures
- Patients may have minor surgical procedures (i.e., mediport insertion) fine needle aspiration or core biopsies as long as it is performed > 7 days prior to the first date of bevacizumab therapy and there is no evidence of wound disruption or impaired healing
- Patients with surgery (including open biopsy) within 4 weeks prior to anticipated first dose of bevacizumab (allowing for fact that bevacizumab can be omitted from first cycle of chemotherapy)
- Patients with a history of abdominal fistula or perforation within the past 12 months
- Patients with a current, serious, non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture; patients with granulating incisions healing by secondary intention with no evidence of fascial dehiscence or infection are eligible but require weekly wound examinations
- Patients with known hypersensitivity to Chinese hamster cell products or other recombinant human or humanized antibodies
- Patients with mixed epithelial ovarian cancer histology
- Patients with tumors of low malignant potential
- History or evidence of upon physical examination of central nervous system (CNS) disease, including history of primary brain tumor or any history of brain metastases, or seizures not controlled with standard medical therapy
- Uncontrolled hypertension, defined as systolic > 150 mm Hg or diastolic > 100 mm Hg; patients with a history of hypertension are permitted
- Myocardial infarction or unstable angina within 12 months of the first date of bevacizumab therapy
- New York Heart Association (NYHA) grade II or greater congestive heart failure or serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication; women who have received prior treatment with anthracycline (including doxorubicin and/or liposomal doxorubicin) and have an ejection fraction < 50% will be excluded from the study
- Grade 1, category 2 or greater, peripheral vascular disease; patient cannot have anything worse than mild, symptomatic claudication with exercise
- History of cerebrovascular accident (CVA, stroke), transient ischemic attack (TIA) or subarachnoid hemorrhage within six months of the first date of bevacizumab therapy
- History of pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis in the past 6 months
- Previous history of malabsorption or other conditions preventing oral treatment
- Patients who are pregnant or nursing
- Patients with acute hepatitis or active infection that requires parenteral antibiotics
- Patients with active bleeding or pathologic conditions that carry a high risk of bleeding such as a known bleeding disorder, coagulopathy or tumor involving the major vessels
- Patients taking warfarin
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01081262
Show 247 Study Locations
|Principal Investigator:
|David Gershenson
|NRG Oncology
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01081262 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2011-02516 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
GOG-0241 ( Other Identifier: NRG Oncology )
GOG-0241 ( Other Identifier: CTEP )
U10CA180868 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U10CA027469 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|March 5, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 22, 2017
|Last Verified:
|August 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ovarian Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Fallopian Tube Neoplasms
Cystadenocarcinoma, Mucinous
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Ovarian Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Endocrine System Diseases
Gonadal Disorders
Fallopian Tube Diseases
Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous
Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents


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Hosting a Simple "Read-Only" NuGet Package Feed on the Web
As you may know, NuGet supports aggregating packages from multiple package sources. You can simply point NuGet at a folder containing packages or at a NuGet OData service.
A while back I wrote up a guide to hosting your own NuGet feed. Well, we've made it way easier to set one up now! And, surprise surprise, it involves NuGet. I'll provide step by step instructions here. But first, make sure you're running NuGet 1.2!
Step 1: Create a new Empty Web Application in Visual Studio
Go to the File | New | Project menu option (or just hit CTRL + SHIFT + N) which will bring up the new project dialog and select "ASP.NET Empty Web Application" as in the following screenshot (click to enlarge).
This results in a very empty project template.
Step 2: Install the NuGet.Server Package
Now right click on the References node and select Add Library Package
Reference to launch the NuGet dialog (alternatively, you can use the
Package Manager Console instead and type
Install-Package NuGet.Server).
Click the Online tab and then type NuGet.Server in the top right search box. Click Install on the NuGet.Server package as shown in the following image (click to enlarge).
Step 3: Add Packages to the Packages folder
That's it! The NuGet.Server package just converted your empty website into a site that's ready to serve up the OData package feed. Just add packages into the Packages folder and they'll show up.
In the following screenshot, you can see that I've added a few packages to the Packages folder.
Step 4: Deploy and run your brand new Package Feed!
I can hit CTRL + F5 to run the site and it'll provide some instructions on what to do next.
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