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Tamil Nadu Government on Friday blamed previous UPA regime for the troubles faced by Nokia's Chennai plant which was kept out of Microsoft acquisition pact in the wake of Rs 21,000 crore (Rs 210 billion) tax dues raised by the I-T Department.
Due to the tax dispute, the manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur, considered one of the biggest plants for Nokia in the world, could not be part of the Microsoft deal, leaving in lurch hundreds of employees,
Industries Minister P Thangamani told the assembly. He was responding to a query by A Sounderrajan of CPI-M.
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The Minister was apparently referring to the tax dispute to the tune of about Rs 21,000 crore towards existing and anticipated liability raised by the I-T department for the period 2006-13.
However, he did not refer to the Rs 2,400 crore tax demand slapped by Tamil Nadu Government's Commercial Tax Department, which Nokia has contested in Madras high court. "Because of the Income Tax problem during the previous UPA, Microsoft did not buy the Tamil Nadu plant," he said.
The state government had assured the employees that it would take steps to solve the issue but many had by then accepted the company's Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) fearing job-loss, the Minister said. For three months, there were no orders received by the local facility even as around 900 persons were getting wages, he added.
About 5,700 people accepted the company's VRS, taking home sums ranging between Rs three lakh and ten lakh, he said.
The Finnish handset maker had about 6,600 people at the facility when it sold its handset business to US giant Microsoft for over $7.2 billion in April this year but tax disputes halted the Chennai plant beinging part of the acquisition.
As the Microsoft deal with Nokia concluded in April, the the Sriperumbudur facility was excluded out of the deal making it as a contract manufacturing unit.
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ELIZABETH, NJ (February 13, 2012) — Some Arizona residents will be hoping for a real scorcher and that weather history repeats itself this Fourth of July. If the temperature meets or exceeds the record-breaking 118 degrees Fahrenheit at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, originally set on July 4th, 1989, qualified pool buyers may be eligible to receive a $12,000 rebate from Hayward® Pool Products.
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Woman Removes Bra To Get Through TSA
Nancy Kates's large underwire bra set off the metal detector in the Oakland, California airport. A TSA agent pulled her aside and patted her down, which set off Kates' personal privacy alarm. "I said, 'You can't do that.' She said, 'We have to pat you down.' I said, 'You can't treat me as a criminal for wearing a bra.'" Kates was given the option to "submit to a pat-down in a private room" or not fly. Instead, she took off her bra and passed through security just fine. Hooray for personal freedom!
Try to read the first sentence below and not turn "wanded" into a euphemism, we dare ya.
Kates said that although she flies about once a month, the only other time her bra has set off alarms in an airport was while she was being "wanded" in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When she explained to the security agent that the wand was picking up the metal in her bra, she said, that was the end of the matter and she was allowed to go on her way.
The TSA says they have to check for bombs:
TSA spokesman Nico Melendez said Monday that he wasn't familiar with the incident. But he said in all circumstances, "we have to resolve an alarm."
That's the case for bras, artificial hips or anything with metal that sets off an alarm, he said. "Unfortunately, we can't take a passenger's word for it."
If you're a large-breasted woman, when you reach the TSA checkpoint you might want to yank your bra off and toss it in a tray. Not because TSA is demanding it, but because we'd just love to see that start happening a lot.
"Delayed by her bra, air passenger is indignant" [SFGate] (Thanks to Scott!)
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So much of the electronics industry is defined by opposite extremes--the smallest of the small and the biggest of the big. Nowhere is that more evident than in TVs. On one hand, we lust after displays the size of a billboard; on the other, we covet things like this combo LCD TV and DVD player with a 7-inch screen.
There are other TVs and DVD players in this size and smaller, of course, but Hannspree has combined the two into one product that weighs less than 2 pounds. And unlike portable products made primarily for the car, as Popgadget points out, this $300 combo looks good enough to blend into the home decor. But if you do want to take it on the road, it comes with a car mount, cigarette lighter adapter and 3.5-hour rechargeable battery. Just be sure to keep it out of the driver's line of sight.


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Step aboard the Maritimo M58 and marvel at it's space, luxurious fit out and bright, breezy open plan layout. Wide opening bi-fold saloon doors, easy cockpit/saloon access and ample sea breezes to the saloon and cabins will ensure your family a relaxed lifestyle in their home on the water.
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Maritimo's entire Flybridge range are appointed with beautifully crafted timber and stainless steel internal staircase. Entertaining on the Flybridge has never been easier.
Whether you're entertaining in the cockpit or saloon the chef remains part of the conversation with Maritimo's aft galley arrangement and wide opening bi-fold doors.
Cruise in comfort in any conditions with Maritimo's trademark enclosed Flybridge. It's more like a second story than an upper bridge. There's so much more to a Maritimo.


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START Film complete
The multidisciplinary research project into the state of food security in the face of climate change in the Hamburg area, funded by START, culminated in a final report and book. The project was filmed (see below) , to show the many different but interconnected aspects to this initiative, as well to discuss broadly some of the key issues that emerged during the research.
The film in no way aims to stand for the final report, but rather acts as a general reflection on the key processes and people involved in the START project. The film at first was difficult to script, with so much going on in this project, and all of it needing to be touched on briefly. Research was conducted by University of Fort Hare agricultural scientists, NMMU marine biologists, and Rhodes University economists, anthropologists and educators and marine scientists from SST. The Keiskamma Trust provided invaluable support and a base from which to work in Hamburg. This all needed to be balanced with the many views and opinions of numerous Hamburg residents.
Trust Sustainability Films had the honour of meeting and working with many energetic and driven locals, who want to see proper change in the community. Ayanda Yekani, chairperson of the Hamburg Fishing Committee, emphasized the community's desire to work together with researchers and government, to set up the right bodies that can begin addressing important issues such as food security. This sentiment was well mirrored in the many voices at community meeting where researchers provided some feedback on their work. It is this local desire to set up their own initiatives to tackle problems, without depending solely upon government to solve local problems, was most encouraging. The film concludes with a message of hope and desire for a better future.


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Unedited Platform for Environmental Extremist
Page One
Today's Earth Watch
For the NBC Today show's recent
three-part "Earth Watch" series on the environment, producers
went beyond their regular stable of correspondents to "put the
world's environmental crisis in perspective." Whose perspective?
Introducing the series, Jane Pauley explained "Our guide is Paul
Ehrlich, the distinguished Stanford University biologist." Today
gave Ehrlich a production and travel budget as well as free air time on
three consecutive mornings starting May 3 to present his unique
diagnosis of the world's problems.
Ehrlich's claim to fame is his 1968 book The
Population Bomb, which began: "The battle to feed all humanity
is over. In the 1970's the world will undergo famines--hundreds of
millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash
programs embarked upon now."
Ehrlich saw widespread famine as part of
the solution to his theories of overpopulation. In what he called a
"cheerful scenario," the U.S. government would decide in 1974
it would no longer send food to countries considered "beyond
hope." Famine and food riots would ensue until 1985, "when it
is calculated the major die-back will be over," that is, when
enough millions have died to reduce Earth's population to some
arbitrarily acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
The Today reports were about as
"cheerful," and Ehrlich's predictions as pessimistic about the
coming decade. "We're going to see massive extinction," he
warned, not to mention drought, erosion, and famine. Global warming is
going to melt the polar ice caps, causing a flood in which "we
could expect to lose all of Florida, Washington D.C., and the Los
Angeles basin...we'll be in rising waters with no ark in sight."
Thus, industrial nations will have to abandon their wasteful lifestyles
using gas and electricity or risk global cataclysm. "Perhaps the
most explosive social problem of the next 50 years will be that the
ecosystems of the world cannot support the spread of the American
lifestyle to the Third World or even to the next generation of
Ehrlich's sorry record of failed
predictions and dire prescriptions was challenged by economist Julian
Simon's 1981 book, The Ultimate Resource. Simon argued that
resources are getting less scarce, that pollution and famine are
decreasing as the food supply increases, and that population growth has
long- term benefits. But Simon, who teaches economics at the University
of Maryland at College Park, just a few miles from the studios and
cameras of NBC's Washing-ton bureau, was never contacted by the network.
Revolving Door
Jackson's Flack Bites Back.
Jesse Jackson delivered "constant unwarranted abuse" to his
campaign workers, including purposefully stepping on their feet to stop
them from talking, ABC News producer turned Jackson Press Secretary
Elizabeth Colton claims in her new book. In the just released The
Jackson Phenomenon: The Man, the Power, the Message, Colton
explains, "I had been forewarned by many" about Jackson's
disrespect for his staff, but took the job because "I had believed
in his message and the historic importance of his campaign."
Colton brought plenty of media experience
to the position she began in January 1988: She was an ABC News producer
in the early 1980's and again before jumping to the campaign staff. In
between she worked for Newsweek as a Middle East correspondent
and as a National Public Radio reporter. Colton relinquished her press
relations duties in April 1988 when Jackson "didn't think he needed
any help" since "the media were eating out of his hand."
Chafee Again. Michael
Healy left the office of Rhode Island Senator John Chafee in 1986 to
become a political researcher for the CBS News Election Survey Unit.
Now, he's back with the liberal Republican as a Legislative Assistant.
Writing Right. Bill
McGurn, Deputy Editorial Page Editor for the Asian edition of The
Wall Street Journal for the past three years, is the new Washington
Editor for the conservative National Review magazine. McGurn,
who previously wrote for the Journal's European edition and The
American Spectator, replaced John McLaughlin.
McNamara Resigns from Post.
Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and
Johnson resigned from the board of The Washington Post Company during
its May 11 annual meeting. McNamara had reached the Post Company's
mandatory retirement age of 70.
On Kohl's Dole. Newly
elected Senator Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, has hired former
Associated Press reporter Bill Ritz as his Communications Director. Ritz
covered the 1972 Olympics in Munich for the wire service according to
the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He joined the Denver
Post in 1978 where he remained an investigative reporter until
Taking the Prosecutor's Side.
Washington Times reporter Mary Belcher has been covering
independent counsel Lawrence Walsh's prosecution of Oliver North. Now,
she's taken a side. Belcher has decided to work for Walsh. On June 19
Belcher becomes the Public Information Officer for the Office of the
Independent Counsel.
She succeeds James Weighart, Editor of
the New York Daily News before he put in a brief 1986 stint as
Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Kennedy. This Fall Weighart takes over the
Journalism Department at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.
Janet Cooke Award
To help attract viewers to third-ranked NBC
Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, news executives exploited concerns
about health care to boost their ratings. Beginning May 1, NBC News
aired "America's Vital Signs," an "unprecedented
month-long report on the nation's health" which would probe
"life-and-death questions."
The series did not help NBC Nightly
News' ratings, but it did give some insight into how the network
would solve what it called "America's severely strained health-care
system." The solution, according to reporter Fred Briggs, is a form
of socialized health care similar to Canada's. Briggs' May 5 Nightly
News report earns the June Janet Cooke Award.
Even before the Briggs report, it was
obvious where NBC News was heading. In a pre-report "teaser,"
anchor Tom Brokaw stated: "And on 'Vital Signs' tonight, Fred
Briggs compares American health care with the Canadian system. The
differences just across the border are dramatic, cradle to grave."
Introducing the report, Brokaw showed no
less enthusiasm: "Throughout this first week on 'America's Vital
Signs,' we have seen the way that high medical costs are putting
tremendous strain on American patients and American hospitals alike. One
factor: insurance. Thirty-seven million Americans have no insurance at
all. Many health experts believe that some sort of universal health
insurance is the answer. The problem: how to pay for it. Well, you don't
have to look far to see one system that seems to work well. NBC's Fred
Briggs tonight on the Canadian way."
Briggs spent 90 percent of his report
praising the Canadian government health system. He began: "When a
baby is born in Canada it's given a birth-right denied to U.S. citizens
-- free health care, a lifetime of preventive and corrective medicine
without ever getting a bill from a doctor or a hospital."
Admiring the system, he continued:
"Remarkably, most procedures cost from one-half to one-sixth of
what would be charged in the United States." But do Canadians get
lower costs and universal coverage by forfeiting high-tech equipment and
quality health care? Briggs did weigh in with Canada's shortcomings:
"There is a negative side to such cost control. Some doctors would
like to see more high tech diagnostic equipment in hospitals and, above
all, more beds. Many patients are put on waiting lists for surgery not
considered to be urgent. And a few have died waiting for it." But
he stopped there -- with just 25 seconds of the 4:15 report.
As Michael Walker, Executive Director of
The Fraser Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia, points out in Health
Management Quarterly (First Quarter 1989): "Canada's
health-care costs may actually be altering the quality of health care
provided." Briggs only alluded to problems with supplies of
diagnostic equipment, but Walker spells it out. In Seattle, Washington,
17 CAT scanners are functioning. That's more than the whole province of
British Columbia, claims Walker. In Vancouver, a city the size of
Seattle, there are only seven CAT scanners. In all of Newfoundland, with
a population of 570,000, there is only one functioning CAT scanner.
The waiting lists that Briggs' passed
over so quickly are indeed frightening. According to Walker's Institute,
urgent pap smears in Newfoundland currently take two months, sometimes
up to five months. Mammograms take two and one half months; bone scans
one and one-half months. Simple neurological procedures take up to five
months. Country-wide, says Walker, heart patients wait months for
surgery. In British Columbia, there is an average four week waiting time
for elective and urgent general surgery.
Market forces ensure timely, quality
health care in the United States; given caps on health spending, there
seems no end in sight in Canada to waiting lists and inferior treatment.
Still, Briggs was unabashedly supportive of the Canadian system in his
conclusion: "In Canada, the young can grow old knowing injury or
disease will never cripple them financially. Everyone is covered by a
system that is more than a safety net, it's a security blanket."
Contacted by MediaWatch,
Briggs defended his story as fair and balanced, but revealed he held a
strong view: "You're coming from the standpoint that their system
is a total failure. I totally disagree with that. I think it's a very
successful system. And frankly I think it's a very civilized
As for critics of the system, Briggs
dismissed Walker, saying: "I don't think he carries very much
weight." Briggs denied his conclusion called for a Canadian-style
health system for the United States: "I was not endorsing it. I'm
telling you how Canadians feel about it. Polls reinforce that." He
did concede that those who can afford it come to the U.S. for health
care. Perhaps that is more indicative than any statistic, any poll.
Not Right to Blame Wright.
Charges of ethical misconduct led House Majority Whip Tony Coelho and
Speaker Jim Wright to resign near the end of May. Who is to blame for
the fact "the Washington atmosphere has turned as bitter as anyone
can remember," as CBS anchor Bob Schieffer put it during the
Memorial Day Evening News? Could it be the Democrats whose
continual attacks drove Richard Allen, Ray Donovan and Ed Meese from
office? Or kept Robert Bork off the Supreme Court? Of course not. CBS
reporter Eric Engberg went all the way back to 1988 to find the culprit:
"It evolved from a nasty presidential campaign that featured the
GOP's famous Willie Horton ad."
Pious Peter. How do
major media figures spend their time off? ABC's Peter Jennings goes to
church. On April 30, Jennings preached at the groundbreaking ceremony
for the new Diocesan Center for the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
Jennings used the opportunity to urge the flock to meet such challenges
as the homeless, the environment, and AIDS. "We must find the
ingredients to do more, much more."
According to the Baltimore Sun,
Jennings "was particularly critical of the United States for
spending too much on defense and comparatively little on the nation's
many other serious problems. He noted, for instance, that Congress was
considering a $300 billion defense appropriation request, but said
agencies responsible for environmental protection, housing or schools
received only a fraction of that amount."
Forcing Family Planning? CBS
correspondent Susan Spencer joined Dan Rather in insisting China's
"very future may depend" on the success of state-imposed
family planning. Spencer outlined China's infamous "one-child"
policy, conceding that couples who violate the policy by becoming
pregnant a second time are threatened with loss of income or housing,
but adding "experts say reports of actual forced abortions are rare
Rare? Last November 24, CBS News reporter
John Sheahan told Evening News viewers "the government
does admit that some women have been forced to have abortions."
Sheahan's expert from the U.S. Census Bureau said: "China's
national government requires the local cadres to succeed in family
planning, and therefore the cadres cannot get away with allowing all the
unauthorized births to take place."
Peltier's Pravda.
"To the American Indian, Leonard Peltier is their Nelson
Mandela," said CBS West 57th correspondent Steve Kroft
leading off the April 28 show. Peltier, a South Dakota Sioux Indian
convicted of the murder of two FBI agents in 1976, is "the man the
vast Soviet propaganda machine believes to be the best living example of
American injustice." So, Kroft told viewers "In the spirit of
glasnost, we thought it was time someone examined his case."
Kroft's entire report built support for
the Soviet contention, eloquently referring to Peltier as a political
prisoner, one of the "ultimate symbols of governments gone astray:
men or women with dangerous or unpopular ideas who may have been
unfairly tried and imprisoned for who they are and what they believe,
and not necessarily for the crimes they're supposed to have
Kroft said "Americans are used to
looking abroad for them [political prisoners], though much of the world
believes they exist right here." Much of the world may fall for
Soviet propaganda, but that doesn't mean CBS should help legitimize it.
NATO Peace. The West
Germans aren't the only ones lulled into complacency by Soviet
"peace initiatives." Two network reporters have the same
ideas. The fact that the East bloc retains the world's largest defense
establishment makes no difference to them.
On April 20, ABC 's Bob Zelnick cheerily
reported, "after 40 years of dealing with the Soviet military
threat, NATO must now come to grips with the idea of peace."
NBC's Arthur Kent used the strategy of
the unnamed critic to attack the U.S. policy of non-negotiation on
short-range missiles. "There have been suggestions," he
reported on April 30, "that President Bush could help [prevent
squabbling in NATO] by leading the search for compromise rather than
following the Thatcher hard line."
Church of Arms Control.
Gorbachev's had a hard time getting Bush to buy his arms control
proposals, but Time magazine was not such a hard sell. Senior
Writer George Church attacked Bush in the May 15 issue, condemning him
as "recklessly timid, unwilling to respond with the imagination and
articulation that the situation requires." The real danger is not
the "highly overrated" forces of the Warsaw Pact, he wrote,
but "that the U.S., in taking a purely reactive attitude, will
undermine its own interests by continuing to leave all the initiatives
to Gorbachev." Church concluded that "a smiling Soviet leader
who speaks of peace and fellowship poses a greater challenge to U.S.
leadership than a rocket-rattling blusterer. George Bush has not yet
figured that out."
"Tactical nuclear weapons have never
made sense," Time's D.C. Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott
proclaimed in a commentary for the same issue. Denouncing "the dark
faith" of "the NATO catechism," Talbott wrote that
"Once the Bush Administration stops cursing Kohl under its breath,
it will probably do what he is asking... Too bad the U.S. will have been
dragged kicking and screaming into a decision that it should have
reached on its own."
Faw's Afghan Flaws. CBS
News reporter Bob Faw blames the ongoing war in Afghanistan not on the
Soviets who invaded, but on the U.S. Reporting from Kabul May 1, Faw
claimed: "With Soviet troops now withdrawn, many here blame the
slaughter on the U.S. In the market place and in the mosques, 'Why,'
they ask, 'is the U.S. still providing guerrillas with weapons which
prolong the war?'" Faw charged that "as rockets made in the
USA keep falling here... resentment towards the United States
grows." Describing the anti-communist mujahedeen, Faw said
"they are regarded by some of their countrymen as bloodthirsty
bandits." Faw concluded, "For many here, what is bleeding now
is America's image."
But on May 7, New York Times
reporter Donatella Lorch, after spending a week under cover in Kabul,
found "the rebels say an increasing number of Kabul residents are
turning to the under-ground." In contrast to Faw's anti-U.S.
sources, Lorch quoted an Afghan woman who placed blame differently.
"The communists have torn our families to pieces," she said.
According to Lorch, the image of the mujahedeen as "bloodthirsty
extremists" is "a description the [communist] government has
emphasized." So did CBS.
Blame Anything But Communism.
What's behind China's abysmal standard of living? Dan Rather had two
answers. On the May 16 Evening News, he said, "it is the
size of China that's such a barrier for economic reform. That, and
cultural traditions bred through the centuries."
The next night, communism again escaped
blame. Rather reported "one big problem that underlies everything
else here in China," is "a population of more than a
billion." From the Forbidden City, Rather announced, "Today's
communist rulers know there's no way to meet the rising expectations of
a billion Chinese outside these walls until and unless the population
time bomb is somehow defused."
Makes you wonder: With reports like
these, why did the Chinese authorities bother to censor CBS?
Thrashing Thatcher. With
Reagan out of office, some reporters think his friend Margaret Thatcher
should go, too. During a May 3 story on Thatcher's ten years as Prime
Minister, NBC's Peter Kent charged that "Thatcher has ruthlessly
applied her conservative solutions."
ABC's John Laurence agreed during World
News Tonight the same evening, noting "Mrs. Thatcher has
imposed her conservative convictions on British society" and
alleged that in doing so "she converted 10 Downing Street into
what's been described as an elective dictatorship." Laurence
supported his assertion by then putting on Anthony Sampson, who said
Thatcher's problem washer "astonishing autocracy."
Laurence failed to mention Sampson's
involvement in the leftist Social Democratic Party and that his book, The
Changing Anatomy of Britain, has been described as "highly
authoritative" by Soviet commentator Nikolai Gorshkov. And neither
report mentioned Thatcher's overwhelming re-election victories, which
allowed her to undertake those "ruthless" conservative
Summer Camp Kemp. Jack
Kemp's "sturdy forehead" of conservative doctrine needs a slap
from "the 2-by-4 of intractable reality," New York Times correspondent
James Traub concluded in a profile of the HUD Secretary in the May 7 Times
Magazine. "There was something potentially ludicrous in this
voyage to the heart of inner-city misery by the new HUD Secretary,"
Traub asserted, "with his earnest manner and polystyrene hair, his
sunny, summer- camp enthusiasm and his devout faith in free enterprise.
It looked like a cartoon...It's been a long time, as Kemp himself
acknowledges, since the Republicans 'got real' about poverty."
Traub said Kemp wanted to change
radically "the Reagan era thesis of neglect and defunding,"
but "the question housing professionals ask is: Will Jack Kemp
accept that the reality of the situation, his free-enterprise model
notwithstanding, demands federal spending, not only to stimulate new
construction but also to modernize public housing and provide increased
housing subsidies to the poor?"
Enberg's Iran Contra Complex.
On May 4, the day the verdict on Oliver North was handed down, CBS News
correspondent Eric Engberg engaged in a full fledged attack on the
conduct of the administration, especially President Reagan. Dan Rather
prefaced Engberg's report as an investigation of "the use of
secrecy, lying, and deception as instruments of ideology and
policy." Engberg then paraphrased unnamed "scholars,"
predicting that to avoid the same problem in the future, Presidents must
"accept the need to compromise with Congress."
Engberg insisted that "critics
remain skeptical" about Reagan's ignorance of the diversion of
funds to the Contras. Engberg's sole "critic" was liberal
Democratic consultant Clark Clifford, who asserted his experience leads
him to believe that the decision on diverting funds from the arms sales
was "not taken without authority at the highest level at the White
Garrick Throws A Curve.
At the end of the May 7 Meet the Press, NBC
"reporter" Garrick Utley used an abstract sports anecdote to
portray Oliver North as a liar and a fool. Utley recalled a briefing
session Tom Brokaw attended "several years ago" conducted by
While exhibiting evidence on the Cuban
presence in Nicaragua, Utley claimed North noted reconnaissance photos
of "baseball diamonds dotting the landscape." North went on to
say that "Cubans play baseball, Nicaraguans don't." Utley
contradicted North: "The fact is, Nicaraguans do play baseball; it
is the national sport there."
Utley used this supposed miscue to
justify a sweeping charge that North was either "deliberately
trying to mislead a journalist and through him the public or he was
ignorant of such a basic fact and therefore not fully competent to do
what he was in fact doing." The anecdote, Utley sarcastically
concluded, "is one of the best at summing up the question that runs
through the entire enterprise: Who were they trying to kid?"
Carter Rehab. He has
rehabilitated homes. He tried to rehabilitate the Panama Canal Treaty.
And now Jimmy Carter is being rehabilitated himself -- at least by ABC's
Peter Jennings, who named the former President "Person of the
Week" May 12.
Jennings began by citing Carter's life of
"distinction, considerable grace and...very strong commitment to
peace and justice." He said Carter "sets an example by rolling
up his sleeves on a regular basis, building homes for the poor;"
that is, when he's not traveling "in search of peace in the Middle
East and better ways to understand and develop the underdeveloped
The public's inability to realize
Carter's international contributions troubled Jennings: "In the
public mind, the scales were never balanced. Carter's success in foreign
affairs: peace between Egypt and Israel, renewed respect for the United
States in Latin America, have always been outweighed in the public mind
by the hostage crisis."
Were You Watching, Kathleen?
On May 12, when U.S. troops were sent to Panama to protect U.S.
interests, CBS This Morning co-anchor Kathleen Sullivan queried
National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. She asked what the Soviets
would think of U.S. actions, because "Mikhail Gorbachev, when he
was on his trip to Cuba, made gestures in pulling out of Central
America, and now we're doing the opposite." Scowcroft curtly told
Sullivan: "He didn't make any gestures in pulling out of Central
America; in fact, quite the contrary."
Sullivan ought to have known better,
since she and the rest of CBS This Morning broadcast live from
Havana during the Castro- Gorbachev summit. And even left with egg on
their faces after falsely predicting that Gorbachev would then announce
his withdrawal of aid to the Sandinista regime.
Van Sant's Louisiana Slant.
Whether it's Washington, D.C. or Baton Rouge, La., when government
spending is at issue, you can bet your last tax dollar which solution,
budget cuts or tax hikes, the media will advocate.
On the May 2 CBS Evening News,
Dan Rather reported "a new jolt today to the Louisiana state
economy...Saturday, voters of Louisiana rejected Governor Roemer's
tax-overhaul package. Today, as CBS News correspondent Peter Van Sant
reports, the people of Louisiana found out what that could cost
them." Van Sant then related how "voters resoundingly rejected
new taxes, digging Louisiana's already-troubled economy ever deeper in
debt and forcing reform-minded Gov. Buddy Roemer to scramble his way out
of a new financial crisis." Van Sant added that "the massive
cuts will be felt across virtually all income levels. The poor will see
dozens of vocational schools disappear, and several charity hospitals
that treat the penniless shut down."
On May 14, Washington Post
reporter Thomas B. Edsall concurred, writing "Were Louisiana forced
to reduce the deficit solely through program cuts, it would devastate
not only such institutions as the faltering network of public colleges
and universities and the Louisiana system of charity hospitals, but the
entire economy of the state."
Sojourners Truth.
A recent direct mail letter from a far-left magazine highlighted an
endorsement from NBC News Moscow Bureau Chief Bob Abernethy. "To
find in one magazine both excellent reporting and commentary, and also
deep Christian commitment, is inspiring," Abernethy oozed. "Sojourners'
ability to serve as a caring observer is a model for all of us." Sojourners
Editor Jim Wallis, who once said he hoped "more Christians will
view the world through Marxist eyes," argued in the May issue that
"because of the war" by the Contras, "justice requires
American reparations to Nicaragua."
Fire Sale. "Last
Summer's devastating forest fires focused attention on Yellowstone Park.
But environmentalists believe the greatest damage had already been done
-- by the Reagan Administration." With that opening, PBS' May 9 Frontline
kicked off an hour-long protest against the sale of federally-owned
public lands, which encompass a third of the United States.
Under Reagan, Frontline
complained, "the federal government would add fewer lands to the
national park system than any administration in history," and
"sold off more public land than any other Interior Department in
history." Selling land is more dangerous than letting it burn? It
becomes the environmentalists' version of the Brezhnev Doctrine: once
the feds have acquired public land, it must never be relinquished to
"private ownership."
Forrest Forecasts.
On May 18 ABC News presented its vision of the future through a one-hour
special, The Electronic Time Machine: 1939-2039. Using the 1939
World's Fair as a model for seeing into the world of 2039, Paula Zahn
promised: "You won't hear talk of ...global disaster." Really?
Co-host Forrest Sawyer soon charged that "we're forced to ask a
question we humans have never had to face before: are we going to get
there [2039] at all?" Sawyer claimed that "2039 will be a
crowded world, the population twice what it is now and it will be
divided, the rich enjoying the advances of science, the poor struggling
to survive."
As the show came to a close, Zahn and
Sawyer explained that "difficult choices" must be made. The
two reporters then proceeded to lay these choices out one by one,
supported each time by a clip of a liberal environmentalist. "The
environment," Sawyer claimed, has been "devastated by human
growth." Paul Ehrlich, a leftist professor who has made a living
threatening global disaster [see page one article], explained that the
sky is falling because "Humanity as a species is doing something
that no wise family would ever do in its economics, that is, it is
burning its capital."
Far-left activist and presidential
candidate Dr. Barry Commoner later predicted "economic collapse
long before 50 years from now" unless we stop using fossil fuels.
Sawyer, worried about the lack of family planning, said "The world
population will double by 2039 and right now 850 million do not have
enough to eat." This belief was supported by Lester Brown,
President of the Worldwatch Institute.
Zahn thought only one proposal, by
Malthusian Dr. Garrett Hardin, was "controversial." He
demanded Americans "stop sending gifts of food to a starving
country. Just grit your teeth and tell them 'you're on your own and
you've got to make your population match the carrying capacity of your
Three Sandinista Spins.
The three major networks had three different spins on Mikhail
Gorbachev's announcement that Soviet military aid would no longer go
to Nicaragua. ABC's Bob Zelnick softpedaled Soviet aid, saying U.S.
military officials are "encouraged by the fact that most of this
year's equipment has consisted of non-lethal supplies and spare parts.
The shipments this year have not included tanks, armed personnel
carriers, air defense or anti-tank guns, artillery, or
On CBS, Lesley Stahl reported "the
Pentagon today estimated the Soviet bloc has already supplied Nicaragua
with $80 million worth of military goods so far this year," and
then aired a clip of Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard explaining that this
leaves a stockpile of "150 tanks, 237 armored vehicles, 549
surface-to-air missile launchers, 772 air defense guns" and so on.
NBC's John Cochran used a number more
than four times greater than referred to by Stahl: "According to
U.S. intelligence estimates, Nicaragua has received up to $350 million
worth of military hardware and spare parts in the first four months of
this year." Noting the Bush Administration was "leery to say
the least" of Gorbachev's announcement, Cochran concluded "the
feeling around the White House is that Gorbachev has successfully sold
some snake oil to the Western news media."
Last month MediaWatch
published a study of the media's philanthropic foundations,
demonstrating a pattern of financial support for liberal groups. When
the foundations studied gave to political groups in the 1980s, they
allocated 89.7 percent of their donations to liberal organizations and
only 10.3 percent to conservative ones.
This month we have taken the research a
step further, using the Nexis news data retrieval system to survey all
news stories on selected political grantees from 1987 and 1988 in The
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post.
The foundations connected to them are, respectively, the New York Times
Company Foundation, the Times Mirror Foundation and the Philip L. Graham
selected three issue areas that were supported most by media
foundations: environmental groups, judicial groups opposed to the
nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, and political think
tanks. The study found that newspapers whose foundations donate money to
a group also give that group more coverage. Think tanks that benefitted
from media funding got less ideological labeling than newspapers
connected to foundations that did not contribute.
Environmental Groups: A
good example of the differences in coverage emerged in stories on the
environment. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a recipient of
$21,000 from the New York Times Company Foundation, had 123 mentions in The
New York Times. By comparison, non-contributing media companies
covered EDF markedly less: 70 mentions in the Los Angeles Times,
and 46 in The Washington Post. The National Audubon Society,
given $8,000 by the New York Times Company Foundation and $90,000 by
Times Mirror, was a subject of 72 stories in The New York Times
and 69 stories in the Los Angeles Times. The Philip L. Graham
Fund gave no money, and The Washington Post mentioned them in
only 27 stories. The World Wildlife Fund-Conservation Foundation, which
took in $157,000 from Times Mirror and $13,000 from The New York
Times, appeared in the Los Angeles Times on 66 occasions
and The New York Times on 61 occasions. The Graham Fund did not
contribute, and the Post included them in only 27 articles.
Bork Opponents: A second
area of marked difference in coverage was among judicial interest groups
who opposed the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, one of the most
active anti-Bork lobbies, took in $20,000 from the Philip L. Graham Fund
in 1987 and $4,000 from the New York Times Company Foundation over four
years. Times Mirror did not provide any financial support. In 1987 and
1988, The Lawyers Committee was a subject in 50 Washington Post
stories, 14 in The New York Times, but only 7 in the Los
Angeles Times.
The Women's Legal Defense Fund (WLDF) was
granted $30,000 by the Philip L. Graham Fund, and was mentioned in 25
stories in The Washington Post. Compare that to 16 mentions in The
New York Times, and 5 in the Los Angeles Times, which
refrained from giving. The Graham Fund has given to WLDF's domestic
violence project in Washington and not ostensibly for their liberal
judicial agenda, but when the D.C. police department decided to make
arrests in domestic violence cases, the Post placed the story
on the front page and referred to WLDF four times, using their
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF)
received $2,000 from the Washington Post Company and $10,000 from the
New York Times Company Foundation. CDF tallied 86 mentions in The
Washington Post and 51 in The New York Times. The Los Angeles
Times, which did not give, was last with 41. The Feminist Press has
received $15,000 from the New York Times Company Foundation, but nothing
from Times Mirror or the Philip L. Graham Fund. In 1987 and 1988, the Times
mentioned the Feminist Press in 15 book features, compared to two
each in The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. The
Post's "Book World" gave two brief mentions to
Feminist Press books in its "New In Paperbacks" section. The
Los Angeles Times reviewed one book and mentioned another in
passing. But The New York Times gave them an entire feature
story, two mentions in their "New and Noteworthy" section, and
nine full-fledged reviews of 12 Feminist Press books.
Think Tanks: Differences
are obvious in the coverage of two think tanks the media have identified
as conservative: the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the
Heritage Foundation. AEI received $32,500 from Times Mirror, $6,000 from
the New York Times, and $10,000 from the Philip L. Graham Fund. Heritage
received no money. AEI was mentioned in 478 stories to Heritage's 385.
Of those mentions, 58.7 percent tagged Heritage and 17.2 percent labeled
AEI. Heritage managed to place 18 editorials and book reviews in the
three newspapers, while AEI had 64, not including editorials from
moderate AEI political analyst William Schneider, a regular Los
Angeles Times columnist.
The liberal think tanks that received
media money were even less labeled than conservative groups that were
funded. The Urban Institute has received $115,000 from Times Mirror,
$5,000 from the New York Times Foundation, and $50,000 from the Philip
L. Graham Fund. While AEI was labeled 17.2 percent of the time, the
Urban Institute received only three labels in 140 stories (2.1 percent).
The liberal Brookings Institution obtained $29,000 from the New York
Times Company Foundation, $55,000 from the Times Mirror Foundation, and
$10,000 from the Philip L. Graham Fund. Brookings was mentioned in 737
stories, but labeled only 10 times (1.4 percent).
It's hard to imagine any direct orders
from corporate management to reporters demanding more coverage for grant
recipients, but the pattern that emerges reveals very interesting, if
merely coincidental, correlations. A media company which feels that a
group is impressive enough to deserve funding seems to feel it is
impressive enough to deserve their publicity.
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Showcasing Good Work at District 5
October 15th, 2012 by milwaukeepolice
On Tuesday, October 9, District 5 Officers hit the streets and continued to show the community that they are protected by hard-working officers.
Police Officers Blaine Grabowski and Erica Taubenheim, while saturating a hot spot where violent crime has been occurring, located a vehicle entering the hot spot area and attempted a traffic stop. The vehicle fled and did not exhibit any reckless driving and operated under the speed limit, falling within the perameters of a "failure to stop," pursuit. This ended less than a mile away in the 3000 block of N. 24th Pl. The driver was immediately taken into custody. The passenger fled and discarded a .380 caliber firearm.
Officers Grabowski ran after the passenger until the suspect ran into a house in the 3000 block of N. 24th St. The officers demonstrated extreme restraint and sound tactics. The resident at the location was cooperative and officers were able to slowly take the subject into custody with the assistance of Tactical Enforcement Unit Officer John Ivy, K-9 Officer Shawn Burger, along with District 5 Officers Chad Boyack, Nathan Fager and Craig Thimm. District 5 Officers Dave Paszkiewicz, Vincenzo Paolo and Daniel Knitter located and secured the firearm.
The passenger had a suspect alert for an armed robbery/shooting in District 3 and we are investigating his involvement in that offense. MPD will refer charges to the DA's office for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, fleeing, bail jumping, resisting, armed robbery and first degree recklessly endangering safety.
This is one of many good stories happening each night in District 5. We ask the community to continue to return here to this site where we highlight great officer work each day.


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Darkest of Days Performance Testing Review
Darkest of Days is a historical first-person shooter that takes you through a maze of time periods and battles to try and change history, for the better. You play the game as Alexander Morris, a soldier who really gets the wrong end of a deal by getting transferred into the 7th Cavalry right before the battle of the Little Big Horn! If you know your history, this is where General George Armstrong Custer's troops met their grisly end. So how do you play a character that dies? Well the wonders of time travel allow Mr. Morris the opportunity of a lifetime, as he is rescued from certain death by a traveler from the future. When you come to, you have been brought to the briefing room to fill you in on the details of your mission. The opposition is trying to rewrite history to suit their needs and ultimately your goal is to prevent this from happening. Your tasks take you through the Civil War, World War I and II, and even the fleeting moments of Pompeii! Launched on September 8, 2009, Darkest of Days is brought to the masses from 8Monkey Labs for both PC and Xbox 360. For this game 8Monkey has broken away from the Unreal engine and developed an entirely new engine that goes by the name Marmoset. The Marmoset engine features an advanced AI and richly detailed landscapes. To get that realistic look 8Monkey has chosen to use Nvidia's Physx technology. Throughout the game, Physx technology is used to make the effects pop or come alive! I'll show you a few of the screen shots of the game, as well as seeing just what kind of perfromance you can expect with some of today's latest video cards.
Closer Look:
One thing that stands out right away are some of the vistas you see while playing through the game. These four shots show how visually captivating and how well the game is put together. The top left is a scene where you are a sniper protecting Petrovich, one of the people you are sent to retrieve. The one on the top right is from the dying moments of Pompeii, as Mt. Vesuvius lets loose the gates of hell! The other two shots show the luscious greens you can expect to see in your travels
The water in the Civil War scenes is out of this world and reacts just like you would see in nature. In these two shots you can see the ripples in the water radiating away from the point of contact. The water is crystal clear and you can see the leaf debris along the bottom of the creek. What is more subtle are the reflections of the surrounding landscape on the water's surface. Pictures just dont do this effect justice. Can you notice the one thing in the pictures that just seems out of place? These shots are during the Civil War, while the weapon is from the 20th Century! This is a feature of the game where you will get to use weapons from different time periods to your advantage.
The weapon damage throughout the game is reactive. Wood splinters realistically and when those splinters hit the ground they react to it. While watching the in-game benchmark run, you can see the effects without concentrating on the game play. This way you can see what's really going on. The first two shots are consecutive and show the effect of the cannon shell exploding. Just through the cloud of smoke you can see the horse and rider that have been felled by the blast, while closer to the foreground the bodies of the soldiers are flying away from the blast. You can also see the dirt clouds thrown up by the blast and the leaves flying through the air.
The other effect that is really great would be the smoke and fog. After you fire your weapon, the smoke comes curling out of the barrel like a living, breathing thing. This smoke reacts to the wind and twists and curls while it is slowly whisked away by the wind. The fog reacts to the firing of weapons, as well as objects, such as horses and people walking through it. And much like any FPS game, when you get shot, you die. In Darkest of Days, you can tell you are on the edge of life by the bloody red haze that envelopes the screen!
Now that you have an idea of how the game looks, it's time to see how a cross section of today's top video cards perform in this game. Cards from both ATI and Nvidia will be represented.


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LSC-Kingwood's ALL program will hold Open House events on Jan. 28 and Jan. 30 from 1-3 p.m. at EMCID and the LSC-Atascocita Center. For more information, call 281-312-1750.
The open houses are an opportunity for individuals age 50 and older to meet other ALL members, get to know the instructors, and to register classes. Both events are from 1-3 p.m.
"The open houses give potential members an opportunity to get acquainted with the programs and services," said Pat Chandler, ALL program coordinator. "We offer non-credit courses, lectures, and social activities for continued intellectual and personal growth."
The courses offer a range of instruction from Conversational French to Yoga to Digital Photography. Some of the popular programs are history classes and day trips on Harris County Precinct One buses and the METRO Bus and Rail. In spring 2014, more than 240 classes will be offered, with more than 70 at LSC-Atascocita Center. Classes offered at the LSC-Atascocita Center include subjects in the arts, healthcare, history, legal, and politics.
ALL will offer the AARP Tax-Aide Service from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Feb. 4-April 15 at EMCID and on Fridays, Feb. 7-April 11 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the LSC-Atascocita Center. This service helps people prepare their federal income tax returns for free. Anyone interested is asked to bring their social security card and a blank check for refunds to be deposited directly in their bank account. The tax-aide service is not available March 11 and 13 due to spring break.
The ALL program began in February 2004 at EMCID and in just 10 years, the program has grown to more than 900 active members. ALL is a volunteer program and courses are taught by members, LSC-Kingwood employees, and area residents. Additional volunteers are needed to work in the office answering phones, greet and assist members and help set up for classes.
Atascocita ALL volunteers assist with the organization of classes as well as assisting the volunteer instructors. Annual membership is $20 from Sept. 1-Aug. 31 and all courses offered are free and taught by volunteers. There are no educational requirements.
LSC-Atascocita Center is located at 15903 West Lake Houston Parkway. EMCID is located at 21575 Highway 59 North in New Caney. For more information about the ALL programs call 281-312-1750, visit http://www.lonestar.edu/all-kingwood.htm or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Register now for credit classes online through myLoneStar. Classes are offered days, evenings, or weekends in traditional, Internet, video, TV and independent study formats. For more information on how to register online, visit www.lonestar.edu/registration.
For general information about Lone Star College-Kingwood, call 281.312.1600 or visit http://lonestar.edu/kingwood.htm.
Lone Star College System has been opening doors to a better community for 40 years. Founded in 1973, LSCS remains steadfast in its commitment to student success and credential completion. Today, with 78,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more than 90,000, Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and the fastest-growing community college system in the nation. Dr. Richard Carpenter is the chancellor of LSCS, which consists of six colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball and LSC-University Park, five centers, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online. To learn more visit LoneStar.edu.


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Alcohol in the Atlantic
David Carey Jr.
Dating from the earliest times in Latin America, alcohol has played a crucial social, economic, political, and cultural role. Often reserved for politico-religious leaders, alcohol was a conduit through which power flowed in many pre-contact indigenous societies; indigenous drinkways (production, commerce, and consumption habits) were associated with communal ritual events and social prestige. Introduced to the Americas by Europeans, distillation profoundly altered the potency of alcoholic drinks for people who were accustomed to fermentation. Even as the social and cultural practices of alcohol consumption changed over time, alcohol continued to have political and economic implications in the colonial and national periods in Latin America. Fearing that inebriation bred disorder and recognizing that moonshining undercut their own revenues, colonial and national governments alike sought to regulate, if not control, the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. In nations as diverse as Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, and Guatemala, indigenous women came to play integral roles in the (oftentimes illicit) sale and production of alcohol. A cash nexus for moving labor and land and a crucial component of the economic system by which (often unscrupulous) labor brokers recruited workers, alcohol was a currency of local economies. As a commodity of local, national, and international significance, alcohol shaped the fate of nation-states.
People's class, ethnic, race, and gender identities all played into their access to alcohol. Although a person's choice of libation could define their position, some of the more fascinating histories of alcohol are punctuated with women and men who used alcohol to disrupt social conventions. Through the consumption of alcohol, rituals and ceremonies created and reconstituted community both within and across ethnic groups. Imbibing could also divide people. Even while they sipped their cognacs and brandies, elites portrayed indigenous people, the poor, and other marginalized people getting drunk on moonshine to discount and denigrate them. Often associated with (particularly violent) crime, alcohol was seen as a vice by many and excoriated during temperance movements. Yet defendants across Latin America took advantage of judicial systems that considered alcohol a mitigating circumstance in many crimes. As 20th-century evangelical sects that preached abstinence as the route to wealth and marital bliss grew to unprecedented numbers, traditional healers and biomedical practitioners continued to tout alcohol's medicinal value. In short, alcohol was a marker of social position and cultural identity, a crucial component in community and state building, and a commodity around which different cultural traditions, healing practices, and policing policies developed and evolved.
Alien Sightings and OVNI Culture in Argentina
David M. K. Sheinin
During the Cold War, there were thousands of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings in Argentina (in Spanish, Objeto volador no identificado or OVNI). The mainstream media reported on many of them. In a field termed ufología, some events were explained scientifically or somewhat scientifically; most were not. These sightings and their stories lived on in a culture of thousands of OVNI aficionados and their literatures, frequently spilling into larger popular cultures.
OVNI culture disrupts chronologies. It offers a picture of Cold War Argentina that breaks with longstanding popular and academic chronologies that stress a dictatorship-versus-democracy binary. That binary is real. However, OVNI culture superimposes an often-neglected Cold War chronology on the mid- to late 20th century. OVNI stories and their cultural consumption evolve and vary not with reference to violent Argentine political and historical change, but in the context of a larger transnational Cold War culture in an Argentine context. Hallmarks of OVNI culture in Argentina include the enormous influence of U.S. popular culture, as well as references to apocalyptic nuclear weapons, and unscientific notions of psychoses in explaining late-night sightings of spacecraft and extraterrestrials.
The Book in the Iberian Atlantic, 1492–1824
Eugenia Roldán Vera
The Atlantic world has not only been a geographic space for the exchange of people and products. Since the 16th century, it has also been a cultural space for the production, exchange, diffusion, reading, and rewriting of printed objects. Historians of the independence era constructed the view that Latin America had been "closed to the outside world" during the years of the Spanish and Portuguese domination; however, later research has shown that this was not the case. Latin American countries, especially from the 18th century onward, were part of a print network through which all kinds of information was being produced, circulated, and read.
During the Spanish Enlightenment, especially at the time of the wars of independence (1808–1824), this circulation intensified. The end of the Spanish and Portuguese trade monopoly in the region, changes in the regime of print rights, technological developments that lowered the costs of publishing, and transformations of the forms of sociability that the wars of independence themselves generated gave way to an explosion of print all over the Atlantic word. Newspapers, pamphlets, and books on topics that were not only religious but also political, literary, satirical, and educational were printed and circulated in the region. This helped to change forever the way the Latin Americans viewed themselves and contributed to the formation of new nations.
Although the circulation of ideas throughout the Atlantic does not account for the development of political and social transformations that led to the independence of the Latin American countries, print culture and political culture are connected in many different ways. This article explores some of these forms of interaction.
Brazil—The Country of Football
Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda
Football appeared in Brazil in the end of the 19th century, among a favorable environment for the practice of English sports. These sports were initially practiced not professionally by English migrants and young students of Law, Engineering, and Medicine. Fluminense was the first club from Rio de Janeiro, at that time the capital of the country, to be dedicated exclusively to practice football. In the beginning, football represented nobility for the local elite. The social profile of people who attended matches at Fluminense's field was very near to that of the players, be it for family reasons, friendship, or other motivations. Young women who went there desired to see their distinguished idols, and from this practice many relationships started. While this idyllic image of the past was produced, a historical point of view can notice a decisive enhancement in social segments interested in football. In the decade of 1910, a collective enthusiasm arose for football, mainly due to the fact that it was easy to practice and watch football in any kind of open space. This allowed it to spread out of clubs and the National Team. Far from the spatial and economic restriction of performance arts, football could be practiced and watched freely, in most diverse situations. The clubs' lack of structure to allocate players and fans contributed in making football a popular game, since they needed to seek public spaces to practice. At this point, the club that opposed to Fluminense has been Flamengo, which until then was not more than a regatta club. When it opened a football department, it practiced in open fields near the beaches. Many passersby started to look out their training and matches, and some of them adopted Flamengo as their club even if not participating of its internal sphere. The players became idols, first in the neighborhood and then in the whole city. This encouraged the talk about football in bars and cafés, with reflections on the increasing number of people to attend matches. Historian Leonardo Pereira says that in a few years football has become a mania. The making of the first national team to dispute friendly matches against England and Argentina has also stimulated football's repercussion. Noticing public interest over matches with teams from different cities or countries, sports press left its poor attitude about football and began to carefully pay attention to this kind of rivalry and the consequent emotions each fan is able to express for his team, especially the National Team.
The Caribbean Visual Palette
Patricia Mohammed
From the 15th century onward, the Caribbean has been populated with different ethnic groups, cultures, flora, and fauna in a way that is constantly changing the visual sensibilities of the space. The mixture of ethnic and nation groups that had settled by the 20th century produced a range of iconographic symbols, use of colors and forms that would signify the Caribbean aesthetic. This included a style of Caribbean painting which is referred to as Caribbean expressionism, the latter which included the group of artists known as intuitives or primitives. With few formal schools or institutions for instruction or opportunities for critical review, the Caribbean visual palette was established largely through the creativity of those involved in various festivals or ritual practices. Artistic expressions resemble performance or installation art rather than the classic forms of painting or sculpture. This work is somewhat iconoclastic in the interpretation of a Caribbean aesthetic and focuses on the homegrown artistic expressions that merge, collide, contradict, and emerge to create originality in this cultural space.
Chile and the Pacific World
Edward D. Melillo
Since the early 1800s, Chileans have imagined their nation's history and destiny through an ever-changing array of transoceanic connections with the rest of the planet. At a deeper level, Chile's relationship with the Pacific Ocean is built upon myriad collective memories and aspirational identities. The long arc of Chile's linkages with the Pacific World—or the peoples and ecosystems in and around the Pacific Ocean—has yet to be fully explored by historians. This article fills this lacuna by analyzing five diverse historical episodes that span more than two centuries: first, Valparaíso's growth into a Pacific commercial hub during the early 1800s; second, Chile's role in the Californian and Australian gold rushes of the mid-1800s; third, the Chilean victory in the late-19th-century War of the Pacific; fourth, Chile's burgeoning commercial relationship with China, which began in the years following the Second World War; and, finally, the emergence of a Chilean-Pacific variant of neoliberal ideology in the final decades of the 20th century. These five developments reveal a litany of ambiguities and antagonisms in Chile's complicated, ongoing association with its western ocean.
Chin Chun Chan: The Zarzuela as an Ethnic and Technological Farce
Jacqueline Avila
Chin Chun Chan premiered at the Teatro Principal in Mexico City on April 9, 1904, to an enthusiastic audience. The first Mexican zarzuela written by José F. Elizondo and Rafael Medina with music by Luis G. Jordá initiated a new current in Mexican lyric theater that moved away from the Spanish zarzuelas and the operas popular during the Porfiriato: the teatro de revistas, or revistas. With the subtitle of "A Chinese Conflict in One Act and Three Scenes," Chin Chun Chan is a story about mistaken identity in which a fed-up man attempts to escape his jealous partner by disguising himself as a Chinese dignitary at a grand hotel in Mexico City. Chin Chun Chan was a significant move away from Spanish productions, attempting to create a local entertainment that could be defined as Mexican through popular characters, dialogues, music, and colloquialisms. This formula set the stage for later revistas particularly during the armed struggle of the Revolution (1910–1920). Through a closer examination of the music numbers and the dialogue, Chin Chun Chan offers new readings on the position of ethnicity, nationalism, and sexuality during this contemporary period of political and social instability and initiates an important period in Mexican theatrical history.
Collecting Picture Postcards of South America
Hinnerk Onken
In their so-called "Golden Age," from the late 1890s to the 1920s, picture postcards probably were the most prominent visual mass medium, worldwide, including South America. Many people collected postcards, which were quite affordable, and pen pals exchanged postcards from all over the world; dates were arranged via postcards, just as happens today via phone, email, text, or instant messaging.
Although most South American postcards were published and sold in urban areas, the broad availability combined with their postal function brought postcards a vast social and geographical diffusion. To use a common term, they are "travelling objects." Postcards of South America could cross the globe many times before becoming part of a private album or an archival collection. For instance, the German entrepreneur and photographer Guillermo Grüter (1871–1947), who had come to Paraguay in 1893, published some of the most popular Paraguayan postcards. The images stemmed from photographs he took there. In his early years in Paraguay, before he imported printing machines and produced postcards on his own, Grüter sent some of his photographs to a manufacturer in Europe who produced postcards. These were shipped back to Grüter in Asunción, where he sold some of them to European immigrants and travelers, who sent them back home to relatives and friends across the Atlantic. Similar stories can be told about postcards published by the German Eduardo Pollack from Lima, Peru, by Austrian Roberto Rosauer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, or by one of the many German publishers in Valparaíso, Valdivia, and other Chilean towns. Picture postcards are interesting objects of study for investigations of global cultural history in transatlantic and other transnational entanglements.
Commodities and Consumption in "Golden Age" Argentina
Eduardo Elena
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the global trade in commodities forged new economic interconnections and contributed to the emergence of modern ways of life. As one of the leading exporters of temperate goods such as wool, beef, and wheat, Argentina was at the forefront of these trends, and the country underwent remarkable expansion between 1875 and 1913. Although export goods linked Argentina to consumers in Europe and elsewhere, these vital relationships were often obscured by the malleable nature of commodities, the far-flung scope of overseas trade, and the perceived divergence between rural and urban worlds. Within Argentina, similar dynamics were also at work, but commodities became referents in disputes over economic distribution, social inequality, and national development. The tensions between the export sector and an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society geared toward mass consumption raised questions as to how to manage the nation's wealth—conflicts involving commodities that parallel those of other Latin American societies. By placing the economic history of commodities into conversation with recent research on the social, cultural, and political history of consumption, this article reconsiders Argentina's "Golden Age" of expansion and its aftermath. The connecting and distancing power of commodities reveals how populations in Argentina and abroad experienced modern capitalism, including its signature transformations of the natural world and everyday life.
The Conjunction of the Lettered City and the Lettered Countryside in 19th-Century Mexico
William E. French
A persuasive literature has argued that the course of Latin American history from the arrival of Europeans to the present has been shaped to a large extent by a small but expanding group of literate bureaucrats, church officials, lawyers, and intellectuals, known as letrados, who made their lives in urban centers. Those marked by this combination of power, urban living, and the written word, an assemblage that Angel Rama has dubbed "the lettered city," utilized literature, history, the law, politics, and higher education to imagine the country into existence textually and to justify the hierarchies and inequalities that characterized their rule. Yet in Mexico, as elsewhere in Latin America, writing has a long history in nonelite settings, a venue that, in recognition of this fact, has now been referred to as "the lettered countryside." Moreover, as understandings of a single literacy are giving way to a concern with "literacies," defined in the plural and operating in relationship rather than opposed to such things as orality and visuality, traces of literacy practices are being discovered in many locations. Foregrounding the conjunction of the lettered city and the lettered countryside is an attempt to bring these venues into conversation while doing away with the binary that associates literary with the city and orality with the rural.
Over the course of the 19th century in Mexico, although the written word was still pressed into the service of national imagining, a number of other characteristics shaped the conjunction of the lettered city and the lettered countryside. A struggle over secularization was one new development, as authority came increasingly to be invested in the written word itself rather than justified in religious terms. New forms of literacies emerged, especially those associated with the novel and other forms of publications, including newspapers, periodicals for and by women, and the penny press, creating new publics with distinct senses of themselves as communities of readers and listeners; oratory, public discussion of politics and other issues in various venues, and the phenomenon of indirect readers also brought together these two locations. As early as the 1840s, rural residents in some parts of the country had made writing their own, drafting political proclamations in which they defined such things as federalism in their own terms and asserted themselves in national politics. While elite diarists, both men and women, left traces of their emotional lives in various forms of life writing over the course of the entire period, ordinary people, including mine workers, agricultural laborers, and women who carried out household duties, wrote love letters to each other by the last third of the century, if not before. Composed and exchanged by means of cooperation, the use of intermediaries known as evangelistas, or by individuals with various degrees of facility in reading and writing, love letters served as privileged means of communicating the emotions they brought into being while often ending up as evidence in legal proceedings that continued to assert the prerogatives of the lettered city even as it came ever more intimately conjoined with the lettered countryside.


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Stampede Fall In Overtime Thriller To Sioux City
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- A late power play gave the rival Sioux City Musketeers the advantage as they scored 58 seconds into overtime and beat the Sioux Falls Stampede 1-0 in front of 4,217 at the Arena Friday night.
Stampede netminder Art Brey stopped 28 of 29 shots from the Musketeers as his team snapped a four-game home pointless streak with the OT loss.
"I thought our team played great," said Brey. "We took a big step forward even though we didn't get the win. I thought we had a really strong game."
The Herd dropped just a point behind the Musketeers for third place but fell to 11 points behind the conference-leading Omaha Lancers.
Neither team put up a score in a shot-filled first period, though the Herd got several quality shots on Sioux City netminder Kyle Hayton. The Herd whiffed on the lone man advantage chance they had, while their I-29 counterparts went 0 for 2.
The goalie duel between Brey and Hayton continued into the second period, where both teams remained goal-less after another twenty minutes. Sioux Falls received the lone power play in the period, a slashing call on Sioux City's Blake Heinrich. Brey remained a steady presence in net, pushing away all seven Musketeer shots thrown at him.
"They (the defense) played a heck of a game," said Brey. "I saw every puck and if I didn't they blocked the shot. They definitely made my job real easy tonight."
Matters stayed square at zero through the third period, despite the Herd getting three power play opportunities. Sioux Falls had a prime opening with a 5-on-3 at 6:40, but still couldn't find a way to get anything past Hayton. The game's momentum changed for good when the Musketeers went on the power play with just 26 seconds remaining in the third after Jack Stander was flagged for a high stick when he tried to clear the puck behind the Stampede net.
Sioux City didn't wait long to end the game in the extra period, sealing the hard-fought victory at the 0:58 mark when Jake Montgomery punched in a shot from the right side on a nice pass from Brandon Hawkins. The Herd finished the disappointing night 0-for-5 on the power play, while the Musketeers struck gold once in three chances, the lone goal being the difference in the contest.
"We're headed in the right direction, but we just didn't get it tonight," said Brey.
Sioux Falls will return to the Arena Saturday night to face the Des Moines Buccaneers at 7:05 pm.
Courtesy: Sioux Falls Stampede


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Mc Call's Jeans & Burdastyle Top
Added Feb 15, 2013
by zsyzu
Placentia, Calif...
I wanted to make another pair of jeans and a top to go with it. The jeans were made based on McCalls 6610 pattern. And the top was Burdastyle's 7/2012 #108 pattern. Again, I wanted to use up old lace leftover fabric and this top was just enough for what I had left.
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Apr 15, 2013, 03.08 PMby pamchar
Wow!! These jeans fits you like a glove. I have to buy this pattern and try to sew my own jeans because I can't find jeans that fits me.
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Apr 19, 2013, 06.51 PMby zsyzu
Thank you Pam. The only modification I did was around the legs and the length because it had kind of a "mom" fit despite the pattern's photo. I wish you success. Finding jeans that fit can be a pain in the butt.
Apr 13, 2013, 03.16 PMby Jolands
Wow! I have never seen a selfmade jeans that fits so good as yours. Did you change a lot at the pattern? Nice top too.
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Apr 13, 2013, 09.16 PMby zsyzu
Thank you! I changed the way the jeans fit right where the hips end and the top of the thighs began. At first the leg was so wide. So I altered the pattern to be more of a skinny fit. Once you make your own jeans, it's like you never want to buy another pair again.
Apr 13, 2013, 03.09 AMby smallone
hi. these are great. how is jeans making? I should try it because i am fed up with knees being in the wrong place…the petite persons dilemma!
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Apr 13, 2013, 01.43 PMby zsyzu
I love making jeans. It's not that difficult and this pattern is particularly good. I cut a size 8 for the hip area to be comfortable but took it in quite a bit around the thighs and rest of the leg. But that's the best part, you can customize jeans until you are satisfied with the cut and length. I just recommend basting your seams until you are happy with the result. Good luck!
Apr 13, 2013, 04.15 PMby smallone
hey thanks great tip! now i just need to find the time to try :)
Apr 12, 2013, 11.49 PMby Kovu
this looks great! I aways thought jeans would be hard to fit but you make it look possible. Love the top too.
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Apr 13, 2013, 01.44 PMby zsyzu
Thank you! This pattern is incredibly easy and once you make your own jeans it can be hard to stop. I recommend a denim that is light weight for your first pair and that it has a bit of stretch to it. Heavier denim in the beginning can be daunting. Good luck!
Apr 12, 2013, 09.54 PMby Mary Athey
fabulous jeans, they're so well made and a great fit. love the top as well x
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Apr 13, 2013, 01.45 PMby zsyzu
Thank you Mary!
Apr 12, 2013, 09.32 PMby Kasiorist
gorgeous pair of jeans, zsyzu! great job, congrats.
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Apr 13, 2013, 01.45 PMby zsyzu
Thank you! I'm glad you like them!
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Thu, Feb 20 2014
LeTourneau University's School of Aeronautical Science is hosting its second annual aircraft-themed art show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, through Friday, Feb. 28, in the Abbott Aviation Center, located at 11450 FM 349 near the East Texas Regional Airport in Longview. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
"This year's show is proving to be bigger and better than last year's event," said organizer Phil Rispin. "We have over 60 pieces of art on a wider diversity of topics that have been submitted from as far away as Fort Worth, and we have more entries on the way."
The show will display various types of aviation-related artwork, including paintings, drawings, photographs and more from LeTourneau faculty, staff, students, alumni and other aviation aficionados. The public will judge each item, with prizes given to the top three winners.


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Baby killing trial prosecutor: Video doesn't lie
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A prosecutor in the trial of a man accused of killing a baby in a stroller in coastal Georgia says witnesses may have had shifting stories and occasionally lied. But he says video and other evidence doesn't lie.
De'Marquise (deh-mahr-KEES') Elkins is charged with murder in the March killing of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago in Brunswick. Elkins' mother, Karimah, is on trial alongside him on charges of evidence tampering and lying to police.
Prosecutors say Elkins killed Antonio in an attempted robbery. The baby's mother, Sherry West, was also shot. The trial is being held near Atlanta because of pretrial publicity.
Jackie Johnson, the Brunswick Judicial Circuit district attorney, said in her closing argument Friday that the only person whose story didn't match with the evidence in the case was De'Marquise Elkins.


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The Anthem: "We Fly High (New York Giants Remix)," by Jim Jones
The Team: The NFL's New York Giants
Did It Help? Shortly after the 2006-2007 Giants team started using the "Ballin'!" motion associated with Jones' hit single to celebrate everything from sacks to touchdowns, he remixed the original song to shout out different players on the team. It gave the song a second life and—while the G-Men didn't win the Lombardi Trophy that year—they did capture it in dramatic fashion the following year. That's ballin', for real.


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hi all!
we are waking up to another crisp morning here in VA – YAY! i get so invigorated when the seasons change – spring and fall are my best times. summer i am too hot to move and winter makes me want to go into hibernation due to lack of sunlight. on our agenda today – a trip in to joanns in search of all manner of crazy fibers in purples, blues and pinks for crafting some unicorn horns. yep you read that right. another step in the creation of my little pony costumes. creating the horn shouldn't be hard. getting the horn to stay on the kids' foreheads might be another story. a little scor tape maybe? hahhah!
i don't know what i did yesterday but my feet HURT. by the time i finished cleaning the kitchen and sat down i was miserable. so hubby trekked down to the basement storage room and dug up my box of bath recipe stuff to find my epsom salts and made me a foot soak – isn't that sweet?!?! luckily i feel much better because today i will be wandering around Ballentine Farms on Pezza's preschool field trip. after all the rain we have had i can't wait to see the mud!
enough chit chat – on to the project for today – Metallic Pumpkins!
when we decided to finish the indoor painting last month we headed up to the Sherwin Williams store at the front of our street for paint. While in there i was checking out this line of metallic paints they have for designer faux finishes. i grabbed a brochure and investigated further and noticed you could get different looks by using it straight, adding a bit of black or alot of white. So what you see above is the 3 different colors i got from the ONE metallic color I purchased. I used Metallic Copper Semi-Transparent. i have to tell you i am in LOVE with this stuff!!!!! the picture just does not do it justice. I think next time i will use a bit less white in the lighter one but otherwise i am quite pleased!
i started with a set of three paper mache pumpkin containers – the largest one is quite large. i have never seen these in a store but a few of us went in together and bought them through a wholesaler (you have to buy in multiples). oh wait – you can get them on Create For Less but you have to buy 2 sets – so grab a friend!
then talk about easy – just paint them inside and out and then use some hot glue to attach some fall floral picks to the tops. these were all leftover from various other projects and most were purchased very cheaply on sale at Michaels. whenever i see this sort of stuff on sale i stock up – most of my floral picks i get for between 50 cents and a dollar each.
i think these would also look amazing with some black flourishes added after painting….hhmmmmm where are those paper mache christmas tree shaped cones…..? i could make a whole gleaming metallic forest……..although for the next metallic project i may check out Martha Stewart's line of metallic faux finish paints at Home Depot….she has some great new things going on over there! mixed media heaven i tell ya!
are you making anything for halloween or fall home decor? i would love to hear what else folks are working on! if you have some great projects in the works for either thanksgiving or Christmas be sure and submit them to us at Through the Craft Room Door!
ok folks Joanns should be open so we are off!
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Let's get this straight:
1. New moms are encouraged to breastfeed, since breast is best.
2. Infants eat every two hours – or more!
3. You're going to need to leave the house for more than two hours at some point.
1 + 2 + 3 = eventually you'll have to nurse in public.
Kim Kardashian – hardly known for being modest herself – has taken to Twitter to express her disgust over a baby eating her lunch next to where Kardashian was eating hers:
"EWW Im at lunch,the woman at the table next 2 me is breast feeding her baby w no coverup then puts baby on the table and changes her diaper"
We're with her on table diaper change (that is an EWW), but the nursing? Cover-ups don't work for everyone, or sometimes you forget it, and baby's gotta eat. And we've seen enough boobage from Kardashian to make us wonder exactly what she finds so offensive.
(Side note: a photo of a nursing infant on the Babytalk cover caused a stir when it was published in 2006. Guess things haven't changed much since then. Sigh.)
What do you think: should nursing moms always cover up?