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Some Reporters
Deny Supreme Court Has Any Liberal Justices
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The "Slash and Burn" Supremes
Disappointment with the Supreme Court's latest
decisions permeated media coverage as June drew to a close. "The United
States Supreme Court unloaded several pre-Fourth of July bombshells
today," Dan Rather began the June 29 CBS Evening News. "One of the
biggest, a ruling that will make it harder for African-Americans,
Hispanics, and other minorities to win elective office and a share of
political power."
Time's Richard Lacayo expressed dismay in the July 10
issue: "When in a single day the court can rule against a black-majority
voting district and in favor of public funding for a Christian student
magazine -- and for good measure approve a cross erected by the Ku Klux
Klan in a public park -- it can't be much fun anymore to be a liberal
Some reporters claimed there weren't any liberal
justices on the court. Washington Post reporter Joan Biskupic wrote on
June 25: "In the current court makeup it is difficult to call any of the
justices liberal, compared to William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, and
Harry Blackmun."
On July 3, USA Today Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro
agreed, claiming "Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer form the moderate wing of the court, with
none of them qualifying for the `liberal' label."
On June 28, Mauro called David Souter "a moderate who
votes sometimes as a conservative, other times as a liberal." Ginsburg
"replaced moderate Byron White with a similarly moderate vote." Breyer
"is no liberal; he voted in favor of drug testing." But these same
justices voted regularly on the liberal side of the major 5-4 decisions
-- for racial gerrymandering and set-asides, against term limits and
funding religious publications.
Conservatives remained menacing. Lacayo wrote that
swing votes Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy "met up with Chief
Justice William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas, the
slash-and-burn conservatives."
Time National Correspondent Jack E. White attacked
Thomas in a column titled "Uncle Tom Justice." White wrote: "The
scariest of all hobgoblins may well be a fellow African
American....Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive
advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for."
In a less emotional review on June 19, Los Angeles
Times reporter David Savage noted Thomas's statement that the court took
a "wrong turn" in 1937 when it used the interstate commerce clause to
justify the New Deal's broad expansion of federal power: "To modern
ears, his view sounds quaint, even bizarre."
Revolving Door
The desire to influence public policy convinced at
least one college student to pursue a career in journalism.
Specifically, Lissa Muscatine, a Washington Post metro and sports
reporter for 12 years who in 1993 became a speechwriter for President
Discussing her career in the June American Journalism
Review, Muscatine admitted: "I got into journalism because I was
interested in advocacy." She further explained: "I grew up in Berkeley
in an activist family. I saw journalism as my way to influence the
world, or at least some small part of it." But apparently the Post
didn't afford her the level of influence she wanted, so after 12 years,
she realized "temperamentally, I was moving in a direction that I wanted
to be more directly involved in making policy. I wanted to be a
participant and not an observer."
Clintonite to Newsweek
For 12 years Tara Sonenshine served as an ABC News
producer in Washington. Now, six months after leaving her position as
Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director for
communications for the National Security Council, Sonenshine has
revolved back into the media. She's now covering national security
issues for Newsweek. A Nightline and then ABC Pentagon producer before
spending a couple of years with Koppel Communications, Sonenshine held
the title of Editorial Producer for Nightline when she departed in early
Having a reporter cover the policies of those she had
as colleagues just months earlier isn't seen as a problem by Newsweek
Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas, but a benefit. He told The
Washington Post's Howard Kurtz: "I wanted to get her under our tent
because she's got good connections and a feel for that world. I don't
have any worries about a conflict."
Sonenshine is not the only member of Newsweek's
Washington bureau with a Democratic background. Douglas Waller, who has
covered national security, defense and foreign affairs since 1988, spent
1985 to 1988 as a Legislative Assistant to then Senator William Proxmire
(D-Wis.). Previously, he was Legislative Director for Congressman Ed
Markey (D-Mass.).
Two from Hill to CNN
The Cable News Network took a bi-partisan approach to
filling two openings in its Washington bureau. Rebecca Cooper, a
congressional producer since 1993, was named weekend field producer.
From 1988 to 1991, Cooper told MediaWatch, she put in a stint with
former Senator David Boren, an Oklahoma Democrat, as a Legislative
Assistant for trade and education issues. After leaving the Hill she
worked in NBC's Washington bureau....
CNN tapped the office of retiring Republican Senator
Hank Brown to fill a producer/guest booker slot, The Washington Post
reported. Jennifer Martin, who had been the Coloradan's Press Secretary,
will book guests for Inside Politics and The World Today.
Congressman McCarthy
On May 5 Richard "Max" McCarthy, a Democratic
Congressman in the 1960s and Washington Bureau Chief for the Buffalo
News from 1978 to 1990, passed away at age 67. First elected to the U.S.
House in 1964 from the Buffalo area, McCarthy lost a Democratic primary
for Senate in 1970.
Changing Standards for Gramm
Pouncing on "Porn"
The Washington Post claimed it needed three months to
research the accuracy of Paula Jones' charges of sexual harassment
against Bill Clinton before it could run a story. But when The New
Republic charged that Sen. Phil Gramm was a "porn broker," the Post
jumped on the story on May 18. On June 6, the Post publicized a brand
new article from the far-left magazine Mother Jones charging Gramm
intervened to parole drug dealer William Doyle in 1979. Neither required
months of fact-checking.
ABC also waited three months before airing a full
report on the Paula Jones story. But on May 17, Peter Jennings jumped on
the Gramm "porn" story, beginning the newscast: "Political and legal
problems for three influential politicians in Washington....We begin in
Washington tonight, where the personal and professional lives of three
important politicians are making news. One is the presidential candidate
Phil Gramm. There are questions about a film in which he invested."
After stories on both Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's new independent
counsel and Sen. Bob Packwood's sexual harassment troubles, Jim Wooten's
story put The New Republic's "Porn Broker" headline on screen for a full
18 seconds.
Newsweek trashed Paula Jones, using terms like "Dogpatch
Madonna," but ran a Gramm story headlined "Senatorial Skin Flicks" that
dominated page 44. In a two-inch-high box at the bottom, Newsweek
devoted three paragraphs to Ron Brown receiving $400,000 since taking
office from an FDIC-cheating friend.
A number of media outlets described the unmade Gramm
film as a "porn" project, including CNN, PBS, Newsweek, Reuters,
Knight-Ridder, the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Houston
Chronicle, Boston Herald, Sacramento Bee, and the San Francisco
But The New Republic's primary source, former Gramm
brother-in-law George Caton, repudiated the magazine's spin in the May
19 Houston Chronicle: "Where this story has gone haywire is there was no
pornography at all." Mark Lester, the director of the followup film
project, an anti-Nixon spoof titled White House Madness, told CNN on May
17: "I have to laugh. There's no pornography at all in it...I never made
a soft-core movie or a pornographic film."
Cooke Award
Experience CBS News: "I'm Watching You Like a
Hawk, You Lying Little Worm"
Engberg's Latest Republican
Thomas Jefferson wrote that "To compel a
man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and
abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Conservatives seek to reform the
government's tendency to award grants to left-wing groups who use
taxpayer money to lobby for more government. For describing this effort
as a spiteful plot to "silence" opponents, CBS reporter Eric Engberg
earned the Janet Cooke Award.
Dan Rather introduced the June 14 story:
"The majority Republicans in Congress believe they've found a new way to
silence their opponents. They plan to do it by cutting off funding for
certain nonprofit groups. CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg has been
investigating for tonight's CBS Evening News Reality Check."
Engberg began: "From mega-battles like
Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination to irritants like the disruption
of a Newt Gingrich speech, nonprofit activist groups are often on the
cutting edge of Washington policy disputes. It infuriates Republicans
that many of these groups are liberal in outlook....It infuriates them
more that many are getting federal money."
He continued: "House Republicans now have
a pet plan for striking back called `defunding the Left.' They're
drafting a bill to severely restrict lobbying by any activist group that
gets federal grant money....Targets include unions, the National Council
of Senior Citizens [NCSC], Planned Parenthood, and environmental
activists, all regarded as opponents of the GOP agenda."
CBS did not explain the extent of the
funding. The NCSC takes 96 percent of its money from the federal
government, $68.7 million, and yet contributed $183,779 to 60 Democrats
running for federal office in the last election cycle. The American
Association of Retired Persons, which fights any entitlement cuts,
received $73 million from the government.
Engberg reported: "Right-leaning advocacy
groups would be largely untouched by the legislation because they
receive little federal aid and often have deep-pocketed backers in the
business world." CBS showed video of the Heritage Foundation, the
Christian Coalition, and the Free Congress Foundation. But do
conservative groups dominate the corporate giving agenda? The Capital
Research Center's 1993 Patterns in Corporate Philanthropy reports that
Planned Parenthood received $425,000 from the top 250 corporations, and
the National Audubon Society received $311,800. The chart is topped by
the National Urban League ($2.6 million) and the NAACP ($1.6 million).
The Heritage Foundation received $262,000 from these top 250
Heritage analyst Marshall Wittman told
MediaWatch: "The greatest inaccuracy is that we receive `little' federal
aid. Heritage and the Christian Coalition -- both have been my employers
-- don't receive a penny. As for corporate money, that's only eight
percent of the Heritage budget, and the Christian Coalition -- we're
talking de minimus." Free Congress spokesman Brad Keena told MediaWatch
corporations account for only seven percent of its budget.
Engberg then aired "government watchdog"
Gary Bass: "This is nothing more than a backdoor witchhunt. I think it's
devious, I think it's disingenuous, and I think it's dangerous." Engberg
did not explain that Bass heads OMB Watch, which the Heritage Foundation
charges is linked with a group called the Unison Institute (awarded
$285,000 last year by the EPA), which shares the same address and fax
number as OMB Watch.
Engberg added: "The GOP faces opposition
not just from left-leaning groups, but also many well-regarded
charities," and aired Alfred Munzer of the American Lung Association.
But in his book Health Research Charities: Image and Reality, James T.
Bennett found the ALA also has a liberal lobbying agenda -- such as
subsidized catastrophic health care and large cigarette tax hikes.
Bennett found the ALA regularly spent less than 4 percent of its budget
on research to cure disease, spending "more than eight times as much on
management and fundraising than it does on research."
Engberg did include two soundbites from
Rep. David McIntosh (R-Ind.), but introduced him like this: "As Vice
President Quayle's anti-regulation hatchet man, McIntosh tangled with
many of the groups he now wants to muzzle." Engberg charged "Notes from
a strategy session leaked to CBS News quote one congressional aide,
`spin is crucial, this can't just look like an enemies list.'" Jon Praed,
chief counsel to McIntosh's Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, said of
CBS's "notes": "Until and unless the handwritten notes are produced, I
believe the memo is a pure fabrication."
Wittman told MediaWatch he was puzzled by
Engberg's methods: "I talked to him twice. Once, he asked if I used the
word `spin' in the meeting. I said no. Then he said 'What if I told you
I have ten people who said you used the word `spin' in that meeting?' I
said no again, and he replied: `Well, I didn't have ten people anyway.'"
Engberg ended his story: "One Republican
was asked if `defunding the Left' is about government reform or settling
old scores. He replied, `Oh, I'd say it's about 40-60.'" When called to
defend the integrity of his story, Engberg instead yelled insults at
MediaWatch associate editor Tim Graham, referring twice to "your stupid
little newsletter." When asked if conservatives ever used words like
"silence" or "muzzle," Engberg replied: "I thought it was a fair
Engberg fumed at a Graham letter to the
editor in the May American Journalism Review: "You little geek, in this
letter you have lied about me. You are a liar." Graham wrote: "In the
1992 campaign, Engberg regularly attacked the Bush campaign's political
ads, using ungentlemanly words like `lying,' but only produced one story
critiquing Clinton commercials."
On October 5, 1992, Engberg critiqued
Bush's ad on what Americans "could pay" in higher taxes under Clinton.
Off camera, Engberg suggested to Steven Colford of Advertising Age: "The
stacking up of assumptions like this, there's a word we used for that."
Colford replied: "Uh, I think it's lying." Engberg complained: "I never
used the word lying. I said `there's a word we use for that.' I was
trying to get him to say `that's dissembling.'"
Engberg then read salary figures for
Graham and others from the Media Research Center's IRS forms: "Is this
really all you're making from all of Bozell's operations, Timmy?" He
added: "I'm watching you like a hawk, you lying little worm." Before
Graham could finish his questions, Engberg said "You are not only a
liar, you are an incompetent," and hung up.
As Wittman noted: "His story never went
to a liberal group and asked them if they're lobbying for more
government with taxpayer money. We're uncovering this big scam, and
instead of investigating the scam, he's investigating the
Retiring the L Word.
Reporters have finally begun to describe the American
Association of Retired Persons as a powerful lobby with a vast
tax-exempt business empire. But reporters still refuse to put together
the words "AARP" and "liberal." (From 1990 to 1992, not one of 196
stories in four major newspapers attached a liberal label.) The latest
example: USA Today reporter Richard Wolf's June 13 article teemed with
labels for conservative groups, but lacked one for the AARP. Wolf
referred to the AARP's "conservative rivals" three times, and quoted
"James Martin, chairman of the 60-Plus Association, another of the
AARP's smaller, right-wing rivals."
Kings of Pain.
CBS News is quickly becoming the grand marshal in the
parade of spending cut victim stories. Two features on the June 25 CBS
Evening News detailed the destruction of spending cuts, one on federally
funded summer jobs and the other on surplus food programs.
First, anchor John Roberts explained in his "Sunday
Cover" segment that "by next summer, 600,000 teens who turn to the
government for work may find a dead end. Republican members of Congress
want to cut summer jobs funding." He questioned whether teens can find
jobs in the private sector: "Are there really plenty of jobs available
for teens?...Even in Boston, organizers who aggressively seek out summer
jobs for kids in the private sector say they can't make up for the
proposed federal cuts." Teens looking for work may find it in the
fast-food sector. Over six million people work in it, and it is
predicted to grow at 2.5 percent a year in the next few years, Tracy
Thompson reported in the July 2 Washington Post. It's a plentiful source
of jobs but quite demanding compared to the make-work jobs many teens
receive through the federal program.
A story by Diana Gonzalez the same evening focused on
the USDA's surplus food program. Roberts warned: "Time is running out
for another government program, one that gives surplus food to people in
need." Gonzalez predicted congressionally mandated cutbacks in the
program and interviewed people who will have to get their food
elsewhere. She ended on this somber note: "The government says there are
other assistance programs available. But that help might not come soon
enough for those being served at this distribution center, one of many
slated to close at the end of this month."
Better Dead Than Well-Read.
In another instance of lionizing anti-anti-communism,
most of the networks marked the passing of former U.S. Senator Margaret
Chase Smith with praise. On May 29, Katie Couric intoned on the NBC
Nightly News: "Smith, a Republican, was the first woman to serve in both
the House and Senate. She's remembered for being a voice of conscience
during the anti-communist fervor that gripped the nation in the 1950s."
Couric and others in the media have yet to acknowledge
Harvey Klehr's book The Secret World of American Communism. Klehr and
other researchers dug into the Comintern and CPUSA's Moscow archives,
using the Communists' own files, to illustrate that the Soviet Union
used the CPUSA as a front for espionage against the United States. But
that kind of information might lead the viewer to conclude some
"anti-communist fervor" was justified.
Whose Free Ride?
Time Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson dove into
the budget battle with his June 5 advocacy piece titled "Why the
Pentagon Gets a Free Ride." He argued: "As anxious advocates for the
poor and elderly fight to stave off budget cuts, the Pentagon seems
immune." The word "immunity" did not match the accompanying chart, which
showed a real decline in 1996 dollars from just over $400 billion in
1985 to about $275 billion in 1995. That's quite a contrast to programs
"for the poor and elderly" like Medicare and Medicaid, which grew 72 and
132 percent in the Bush years alone.
Kindling for the Class War.
In a May 29 front page story subheaded "Tax, Spending
Cuts May Add to Inequality," The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein
claimed that "For the last 15 years, the gap between rich and poor in
America has been growing wider." Pearlstein argued "The tax and spending
cuts now moving through Congress are likely to reduce the after-tax
incomes of American families at the bottom of the economic
ladder...while leaving incomes of wealthy Americans largely unchanged."
He declared: "Government data show that since the late 1970s the share
of national income earned by the richest households has been rising
steadily while almost everyone else's shares have declined."
But in the May 10 National Review, Economics Editor Ed
Rubenstein noted that "Americans are all getting richer." He continued:
"Since 1967 the share of households earning $75,000 and above per year
(in 1993 dollars) has more than doubled, from 5.1 per cent to 12.5 per
cent. Middle-income households, far from being squeezed, have been
pushed up." Rubenstein also noted that "real income per person has
soared 60 per cent since 1967."
Rebutting Newt.
Karen Arenson of The New York Times took to the front
page June 4 to make the case against Newt Gingrich's call for
dismantling the welfare state and handing its duties to private
charities: "The Speaker's ideas are unworkable because his vision of
what charities do and how they are financed is a page out of Norman
Rockwell, a far cry from reality." Arenson contended that "while most
charities depend on volunteer labor and on billions of dollars in
donations from the public, they are even more dependent on government
money for their survival." She repeatedly quoted heads of charities
dependent on government subsidies who "contend that government not only
has the responsibility to continue to meet the human needs of society,
but that in many fields, is the only entity capable of assuming that
Arenson claimed "some of the tax plans that are under
the most active discussion in Washington now, like a flat tax or a
consumption tax, would actually raise the cost of giving, by reducing
the tax incentive that occurs when donors take their charitable
contributions as deductions on taxes." Arenson noted "charitable
contributions grew in the 1980s, when government cuts were threatened,"
but didn't finish the story. Professor Richard McKenzie noted in The
Right Data: "The annual rate of growth in total giving in the 1980s was
55 percent higher than in the previous 25 years....This occurred at a
time when real tax payments, part of which were intended to serve
charitable goals, were on the rise, and at a time when, because tax
rates fell, the after-tax cost of giving rose."
All Wet on Clean Water.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which
fooled the nation with the Alar hoax in 1989, remains popular with the
the networks. On March 14 Robert Hager promoted a NRDC study and called
them "highly respected." On June 1 Today's Bryant Gumbel hosted NRDC
lawyer Eric Olson. Gumbel summarized: "In the past year, one in five
Americans routinely drank water that failed to meet EPA standards, and
that as many as seven million Americans are getting sick each year from
water-born infections."
After pointing out the NRDC's "new" study is simply
publicly available EPA data, Jonathan Tolman of the Competitive
Enterprise Institute told MediaWatch that the EPA methodology misses the
point: "The biggest problem is that many of these water systems are not
adding enough chlorine. In fact, 43 million of last year's 57 million
violations were coliform violations [coliform is a harmless, easily
detectable bacteria that is often an indicator of the presence of
harmful pathogens] which are easily cured through chlorination. What the
EPA is passing regulations on is totally irrelevant to the real health
concerns of people. The EPA has a list of over 80 contaminants they
check for, things that 99 percent of the water systems never even see in
their water. And the EPA must come up with 25 more contaminants every
three years. They just keep adding more and more bizarre chemicals to
the list while ignoring the number one problem, the coliform
But Gumbel suggested Republicans were forcing
Americans to boil water: "This comes at a time when Republicans are
looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act.
What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled
water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?"
Warmed-Over Willie.
Seven years after the Willie Horton ad, it's still
getting saturation play from some liberals. On the June 1 Today, Bryant
Gumbel interviewed David Anderson, author of a book on the ad, Crime and
the Politics of Hysteria. Gumbel's introduction left no doubt where he
stood: "An extremist supporter of Republican presidential candidate
George Bush bankrolled this political ad. Its gut-level attack played to
America's racial fears." Anderson defended Massachusetts' furlough
system, which allowed the rapist and murderer Horton to get out of
prison on a weekend pass. Gumbel approved: "So the policy was good but
Willie Horton was a bad candidate....You spent a lot of time for this
book talking with William Horton. Is the man you found an awful lot
different than Willie Horton of the infamous ad?"
Gumbel managed to out-liberal his liberal guest by
asking a question he thought he knew the answer to: "The facts of race
and crime in this country are pretty clear, but was the ad pretty
racist, did it try to capitalize on racist fears?" When Anderson paused,
Gumbel added: "Let's put it this way -- if William Horton had been
white?" When Anderson answered that Bush supporters still would have
used it, a shocked Gumbel asked "You do? Would it have had the same
impact?" Gumbel ignored the findings of Washington Post pollster Richard
Morin, who in 1992 cited "substantial evidence [negative ads] didn't
work four years ago. Bush's poll numbers in 1988 didn't budge during or
after the Willie Horton ad controversy."
Opry Omissions.
For the March 31 CBS Evening News "Eye on America,"
John Blackstone focused on how House Appropriations Committee Chairman
Bob Livingston (R.-La.) would cut National Endowment for the Arts
funding, which might cancel a grant to his district's Piney Woods Opry:
"Without financial help to keep the show running and keep the recorders
turning, they say these songs will soon be gone, along with those who
play them."
But a June 12 Washington Times editorial revealed that
CBS knew the opposite. Opry sponsor Jonathan Bachrack of Abita Lumber
Company explained: "I was interviewed by CBS for a half-hour. I didn't
say what they wanted to hear. They wanted me to say that we need the
federal government's money, and that Bob Livingston is a hypocrite."
Bachrack said he "told the people from CBS that we don't need the
federal government to run a local concert."
Nina's Next Assignment.
Nightline devoted its June 7 program to the sex
discrimination lawsuits filed against the "old-boy network" at the
Central Intelligence Agency. For its initial report, ABC chose as its
reporter Nina Totenberg, the National Public Radio reporter who also
broke the story of Anita Hill's unproven charges.
ABC and Totenberg have ignored another sex
discrimination lawsuit against a federally-funded agency: NPR. The May
25 New York Times noted that NPR reporter Katie Davis filed a $1.2
million lawsuit, adding that "in the 1980s, at least two employees,
including Mara Liasson, the current White House reporter, had threatened
to file sex discrimination cases against the network, but settled with
the network out of court." As Davis told the Times: "They run around and
report all the time on discrimination. But they don't look hard enough
at their own situation."
Today Co-Host Uses NBC Morning Show as Personal
Political Soap Box
Bryant Gumbel, Angry Black Male
When asked in the June 17 TV Guide which three women
with whom he would choose to host Today if Katie Couric and Jane Pauley
were excluded, Bryant Gumbel chose his wife June, Oprah Winfrey, and
"Hillary Clinton, just to tick off the right-wing extremists." A
MediaWatch review of the last four years found Gumbel's editorializing
focused noticeably on right-wing extremists, race relations, and his
ongoing hatred of Ronald Reagan.
Right-Wing Extremists. Gumbel regularly puts
conservatives on an unrespectable fringe, especially social
conservatives. On February 9, 1993, he asked consultant Roger Ailes
about the Republicans: "Rich Bond. As he stepped down as RNC Chair he
had some parting shots for the religious right and fringe fanatics like
Phyllis Schlafly. What did you think of his remarks?" On July 14, 1994,
the Today co-host announced: "We're back in just a moment to talk about
the President's problems with the extremists of the religious right."
The day after the 1994 vote, Gumbel challenged
Rep.-elect J.C. Watts: "You're aligned to a party which owes many of its
victories to the so-called religious right and other conservative
extremists who are historically insensitive to minority concerns. That
doesn't bother you?" The next day, he asked Jack Kemp: "The so-called
Christian Coalition, as you know, is claiming a great deal of credit for
GOP victories across the board. Are you not at all concerned about where
their brand of some would say extremism or intolerance may yet try to
take your party?"
Eight days later, he interviewed Sonny Bono: "You're a
moderate, pro-choice Republican. Are you totally comfortable with some
of the extremists and ideologues that seem headed for the 104th Congress
and may dominate the Republican Party?" On November 23, the NBC star
proclaimed: "With Republicans taking control of Congress in January,
Senator Jesse Helms is slated to be the new Chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, a prospect that is embarrassing to many
Republicans. His two most recent outbursts against the President are
just the latest in a long line of outrageous remarks that have earned
Helms the disrespect and disgust of people from coast to coast."
Race. Gumbel took a strident line on race. The L.A.
riots provoked the co-host's anger about the 1980s on April 30, 1992:
"We keep hoping for some good to come out of this. Maybe it might help
in putting race relations on the front burner, after they've been
subjugated so long as a result of the Reagan years." The next day,
Gumbel repeated himself: "During the `80s nobody even talked about it.
It was like everything was fine. If we shut up, it would all go
away...Taking their cues from Washington, most Americans over the past
dozen years have chosen to ignore the issue of civil rights and the
growing signs of racial division."
Seventeen days later, he shifted slightly: "George
Bush has been at the focal point of incidents that have exacerbated race
relations in this country...the Willie Horton affair, for example;
making affirmative action a front-and-center proposal; constantly
discussing welfare as a problem in this country -- things that really
separate the races rather than bring them together."
But Gumbel didn't believe in peace, telling
Knight-Ridder's Marc Gunther on May 13, 1992: "Everyone is quick to want
you to condemn them but some of us are sitting in that position feel
uncomfortable being asked to do that...When the violence was being
perpetrated on these people on an ongoing basis, did America see it?
Certainly not...Black people are being killed by the handfuls in that
area on an ongoing basis, and basically America doesn't care."
On April 15, 1993, Gumbel retained that violent
attitude with Rep. Maxine Waters: "If I'm a young black man in South
Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing,
I see that Washington's promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled. I
see that perhaps for a second time, the court's inability to mete out
justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn't I vent my anger?" He lionized
the Black Panthers on February 19, 1993: "The Panthers took up arms in
the midst of the Sixties struggle for social justice. They preached
self-determination...They also preached self-defense, and to that end
took on policemen who brutalized blacks."
Gumbel sympathized with former
criminal-turned-reporter Nathan McCall on March 22, 1994: "Those who say
`just lock them up, throw away the key, incarcerate them, warehouse
them,' whatever, do you think they are even conscious of just how racist
this country is?" He also asked: "It's been written that being black in
America is like being a witness at your own lynching. Why didn't your
experiences make you more resentful than you are today?"
Reagan vs. Clinton. Gumbel's lasting hatred for Ronald
Reagan has been matched by a promotional tone for Bill Clinton. On
January 15, 1992, he said: "Few people personify the greedy me-first
attitude of the Reagan years more than Donald Trump." A week later, he
asserted: "In the Reagan years, economic erosion set in, so much so that
the middle class now finds itself in ever-deepening trouble." Gumbel
asked on March 31, 1993: "In the greedy excesses of the Reagan years,
the mean income of the average physician nearly doubled, from $88,000 to
$170,000. Was that warranted?"
On February 18, 1993, Gumbel asked Al Gore if he would
"remind the nation that it was Ronald Reagan who quadrupled the
deficit?" He repeated the line to Bob Dole on March 2, 1993: "Are you
not guilty of holding President Clinton to a tougher standard than you
did two Republican Presidents who over the last 12 years quadrupled the
national debt?" Gumbel told economist Irwin Kellner on June 2, 1993:
"The Reagan Administration used to boast they created a lot of jobs.
Most of those were menial jobs that were quickly dissipated by a
quadrupled budget deficit."
Gumbel asked author Gerald Swanson in 1993: "I'm not
sure there's a grade low enough for the next one: Ronald Reagan. He
spoke regularly of balancing the budget, but he broke the bank. In
return for his own personal popularity he spent eight years in office
and ran up $1.34 trillion in deficits." He then followed up: "It's early
yet, but for at least trying to address the deficit in a more serious
fashion than anyone in 12 years, what kind of early marks do you give
Bill Clinton?"
Gumbel defended Clinton before far-left Mother Jones
Editor Jeffrey Klein on January 7, 1994: "Do you give Bill Clinton
credit for addressing serious issues that went untouched for 12 years --
deficit reduction, gun control, world trade, health care? He has
certainly taken on tough questions and made them not a question of if,
but how much."
the Bright Side
MediaWatch gave the May Janet Cooke Award to ABC's Ned
Potter for his April 3 story critiquing House GOP stories of regulatory
excess, such as a rule that requires dentists to keep a log of white-out
bottles they dispose. Two months later, on the June 7 Prime Time Live,
Sam Donaldson offered his own anecdotes, asking: "You want to know who
has the power in Washington to really control your life? Not the
Republicans or the Democrats, but the bureaucrats who write and
administer federal regulations."
Donaldson claimed that "regulations protect us," but
"there are thousands of regulations in the books and many of them don't
work right, which cost people a lot of time and money." A tree care
company was forced to buy 10 gas cans at $230 each because of three
Department of Transportation regulations and one
OSHA regulation. Donaldson added: "Fair enough, but
look here, this five gallon gas can won't fit in a lot of standard chain
saws, so half the gas spills to the ground. And it won't fit in the
carrying compartments in the truck. Now comes the clincher -- it turns
out there was no need to buy these expensive cans after all."
Donaldson found an obscure loophole that allowed a can
that sold for $23.99 to comply with the standards, "but who knew it?"
Apparently not even the agencies that wrote the regulations: "It took
DOT three days to come up with the loophole. It took OSHA six days."
Donaldson ended his story applauding the movement Potter ridiculed: "The
House plans to devote one day a month to rolling back regulations that
don't work. The first such `corrections day' is expected to be held
soon. Help is on the way."
Unreported Human Rights
Although the media cover human rights abuses in
communist China, the country's one-child policy of forced abortion and
sterilization is usually either ignored or given tacit approval as a
weapon in the global fight against "overpopulation." On January 19,
Peter Jennings lamented that China would reach one billion people in
February: "There are laws in China against having more than one child,
but the laws are widely ignored."
Going where the "pro-choice" media fear to tread, John
Roberts explored China's policy on the May 28 CBS Evening News, focusing
on an emigrating couple in the United States. "The couple is claiming
asylum based on China's family-planning policies. Chen says officials
aborted her third pregnancy, sterilized her, then tried to sterilize her
husband. As Congress has documented, such practices are typical." Rep.
Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said: "Forced abortions are often performed very
late in pregnancy, even in the ninth month. The baby gets an injection
of formaldehyde or some other poison into the baby's cranium." Roberts
added: "The Clinton Administration does not consider forced abortion and
sterilization to be grounds for asylum, a reversal from the Reagan and
Bush years. Advocates say the Administration has even tried to block
asylum hearings for political reasons."
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So Popular She Lost at the Polls
Ann Richards, NBC Darling
In her new role as weekend co-host of Today, Giselle
Fernandez has acted as if she is also local chairman of the Young
Democrats. On May 20, she asked Labor Secretary Robert Reich: "Why are
we leaving such critical decisions up to the Republicans? Why didn't we
come up with another more, perhaps, realistic deficit reduction budget
On June 18, Fernandez led a syrupy tribute to former
Texas Gov. Ann Richards. "Despite her soaring popularity and role as
queen of the Democratic Party, she was ousted from office in the
nation's sweep to the right. Today, more than half a year since her
surprising defeat, she remains as popular as ever." Fernandez did not
reconcile "soaring popularity" with defeat at the polls. Fernandez
showed Richards' famous 1988 "silver foot in his mouth" attack on George
Bush, but instead of condemning it as divisive or mean-spirited,
Fernandez followed the clip by claiming: "It was her tell-it-like-it-is
candor and winning charisma that not only charmed the hearts of the
nation but made her a powerful force in Washington."
Her loss only made her more endearing, proclaimed
Fernandez: "Six months after her defeat, the light of this Lone Star
legend doesn't seem to have dimmed one bit." Pocketing thousands for
filming a Doritos commercial wasn't cashing in on her fame: "If she's
not hosting talk shows, she's talking to schools or making Super Bowl
ads that prove she has no chip on her shoulder."
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LITTLE ROCK 1 GLIDE Slip and slide your way through the River Market as the ARVEST on Ice outdoor skating rink returns, Saturday through Jan. 6. The rink will be open to the public 4-9 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, noon-8 p.m. Sunday, although hours will vary for holidays and school vacations. Entry, plus skate rental, is $9, free for children 4 and under. Call (501) 375-2552 or visit holidaysinlittlerock.com.
The men of Celtic Thunder roll into town and bring a taste of Ireland to Robinson Center Music Hall, 7:30 p.m. today. In addition to traditional songs, the shows feature Irish sets, instruments and comedic elements. Tickets are $45-$150. Call (800) 662-2386 or visit aetn.org.
Sheryl Underwood, Bruce Bruce and George Willborn top the multicomic bill for the Jokers Wild Comedy Show, 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Robinson Center Music Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, Little Rock. Doors open at 7:30. Tickets are $51-$61.50. Call (501) 244-8800 or (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Gary Kimble plays Bill Wilson and Richard Springle plays Dr. Bob Smith, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, in Pass It On, An Evening With Bill W. and Dr. Bob, based on the off-Broadway play Bill W. and Dr. Bob by Samuel Shem and Janet Surry, 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Argenta Community Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock. The show is a joint project of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the Little Rockbased Wolfe Street Foundation. Admission is by $20 donation
to the foundation. Call (501) 372-5662 or visit wolfestreet.org. See story Page 4E.
The legendary Glen Campbell's Farewell Tour takes him to Texarkana this weekend, with a show at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Perot Theatre, 221 Main St. Tickets are $85, $75 and $55. Call (903) 792-4992 or visit trahc.org.
Houses in North Little Rock's Calico Creek Neighborhood will be dressed to the nines for the annual Junior League of North Little Rock Tour of Homes. It starts with a progressive dinner and preview with entertainment and a silent auction, 6-10 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $35. Tours of the decorated homes will be noon-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Tour tickets are $10. Call (501) 372-1436 or visit jlnlr.org.
Dazzle Daze, Conway Regional Women's Council's annual Christmas shopping extravaganza, gets under way at the Conway Expo Center, 2505 E. Oak St., Conway. It all starts with Girls' Nite Out, 6-9 p.m. today, with general shopping following 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Children who show up early at 9:30 a.m. Friday can take part in a Pajama
Party with Santa. Admission for the
Girls' Nite Out
is $25 in
$30 at the door. General shopping is $5. Call (501) 513-5778 or visit dazzledaze.com.
Shop for gifts with a local flavor at the annual Arkansas Arts Center Museum School Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at The Metroplex, 10800 Colonel Glenn Road. Faculty and students will display their pottery, jewelry, glass, paintings, sculpture and all manner of artistic items for this pre-Christmas sale. Admission is free. Call (501) 975-5911.
On local stages this weekend:
Door-slamming dishabille is the onstage dress code for Pajama Tops, a farce by Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert, through New Year's Eve at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. (No shows Thanksgiving Day or Dec. 23-25; Wednesday and Nov. 28 are matinees with no evening performances.) Tickets (includes buffet meal and show): $31 Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday evening, $33 Friday-Saturday, $29 Wednesday and Sunday matinees, $20 for children. Show-only: $25, $15 children. Special ticket price for New Year's Eve. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.
Community Theatre of Little Rock will stage Walton Jones' musical A 1940's Radio Christmas Carol, a radio acting company's Christmas Eve 1943 take on Dickens' Christmas classic, complete with last-minute film-noir finale, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 22-24 (yes, that includes Thanksgiving) and Dec. 1-2, 2 p.m. Sunday and Dec. 2 at the Public Theatre, 616 Center St., Little Rock. Tickets are $16, $14 for students, senior citizens 65 and older and members of the military ($1 off with a pair of gently used running shoes), free for children 6 and under. There's a pay-whatyou-can dress rehearsal/"pocket preview" at 7:30 p.m. today. Call (501) 410-2283 (ACT3) or visit ctlr-act.org.
At the University of Arkansas at Little Rock this weekend:
The UALR Community Chorus will perform Giacomo Puccini's Messa di Gloria at 7:30 p.m. today in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave. Bevan Keating will conduct singers and orchestra. Tickets are $10, free for UALR faculty, staff and students with ID. Call (501) 569-8993 or visit ualr.tix.com.
Works conceived and choreographed by UALR dance majors comprise "Dance Harvest," 8 p.m. today-Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre, Center for Performing Arts, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Tickets are $7, $5 for students and senior citizens. Call (501) 569-3456.
The Museum of Discovery hosts the Dancing Eagles for its annual Tribal Trails event, 2 p.m. today-Friday, 11:30 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday. The Dancing Eagles will provide first-person narratives of American Indian culture, customs and history in Arkansas. Museum admission is $10, $8 for ages 1-12. Call (501) 396-7050.
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26. Jacksonville Jaguars
Original pick: Traded to the Houston Texans (via the Ravens), who took Duane Brown, OT, Virginia Tech New pick: Thomas DeCoud, S, California DeCoud (above) was voted to the Pro Bowl this year, and he would help out on the back end of the Jacksonville defense. He certainly would have had more of an impact than Derrick Harvey, who is now out of football.
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Judge sentences man to six years behind bars for violating Indiana Loan Broker Act
November 12, 2010
Investigators from state's Prosecution Assistance Unit team up with Marion County Prosecutor's office to defend Hoosier investors, hold fraudulent financial agent accountable
INDIANAPOLIS (Nov. 10, 2010) – A Marion County judge today sentenced former loan broker Jason Keigley to six years in prison for violating the Indiana Loan Broker Act.
Judge Robert Altice sentenced Keigley after a jury convicted the former Indianapolis loan broker on several loan broker related charges. The charges included five felony counts of dealing without a loan broker's license, five felony counts of loan broker fraud, one felony count of fraud on a financial institution and one felony count of identity theft.
"In Indiana, we are holding loan brokers and financial agents to the highest levels of professional standards," Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita said. "These standards are in place to help protect Hoosier investors from falling prey to these deceptive actions. Individuals, like Jason Keigley, will be held accountable for their actions to mislead innocent victims for personal, financial gains."
Keigley is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence after being found guilty in 2008 for persuading a Hendricks County couple to invest nearly $30,000 in his fraudulent mortgage company – 1st Place Mortgage. Keigley, an unlicensed loan broker, convinced the couple their funds would be available to them at any time with a 25 percent return on investment. However, when the couple later requested their funds be returned, he gave them only a small fraction of their initial investment. The couple never recovered the remainder of their money. The outcome of the Hendricks County case was a direct result of an investigation by the Prosecution Assistance Unit (PAU) that was referred to the Hendricks County Prosecutors office.
Rokita noted the recent case against Keigley was also due to the work by the PAU – an arm of the Secretary of State's Securities Division – and the partnership between the Marion County Prosecutor's office. The secretary explained the sole purpose of the PAU is to assist police and prosecutors in investigating and prosecuting criminal violations of the Indiana Securities Act and the Indiana Loan Broker Act. Comprised of former prosecutors and criminal investigators with more than 72 years of experience, the unit's efforts have led to the convictions 38 criminals in state and federal courts across Indiana. Additionally, with more than $29 million in court ordered restitution, many victims are able to recover some of their losses.
Judge Altice ordered Keigely to serve this latest sentence consecutively with his current conviction. He is scheduled to be released in 2018.
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I've been trying to figure out the Latin translation for the word "imagine" (as a verb). I came across "somnio," but then I discovered that the definition for "somnio" is "to dream, imagine foolishly."
The meaning of "imagine" that I'm interested is to conceive, imagine all of the posibilities, to dream, but not in a foolish way, in an inspirational way ... if that makes any sense.
If anyone could help me with this, that would be great!


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. AND CAMBRIDGE UK – Nov. 12, 2002 –Verisity Ltd. (Nasdaq:VRST), the leading supplier of essential technology and methodology for functional verification and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, today announced that ARM has joined Verisity's LicenseE Program, with a view to opening up access to the e verification language. As a member of the LicenseE program, ARM will be a strong supporter of the drive toward e language standardization.
"As the Specman Elite™ tool continues to proliferate within ARM and our Partner base, it is now more important than ever to make e an open language," said Jonathan Morris, Systems program manager, ARM. "Our goal as members of the LicenceE program is to ensure that the e language becomes easily available to everyone."
ARM has adopted Verisity's testbench automation solutions because of the powerful capabilities that the e language provides. ARM also distributes e verification toolkits to its customers to aid in the integration of IP and measurement of compliance with the AMBA® on-chip bus specification. As a member in the LicenseE program, ARM will receive open access to the e language and will participate in the e Steering Committee. The Steering Committee's purpose is to drive the e language to standardization to better serve the verification market. All companies on the Steering Committee have equal say, including Verisity.
"Top industry companies are coming together through the LicenseE program in support of the e verification language," said Francine Ferguson, vice president of worldwide marketing for Verisity. "Technology leaders such as ARM are welcomed additions to the e Steering Committee and to the standardization effort."
ARM joins a prestigious list of strategic industry players supporting the e language initiative through the LicenseE program. Participating in the program is a number of Verisity customers, today including: Cisco Systems, Infineon Technologies, LSI Logic, Philips, PMC-Sierra and ST Microelectronics.
About Verisity
Verisity, Ltd. (Nasdaq: VRST), is the leading supplier of essential technology and methodology for the functional verification market. The company addresses customers' critical business issues with its market-leading software and intellectual property (IP) that effectively and efficiently verify the design of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits for the communications, computing, and consumer electronics global markets. Verisity's flagship verification solution, Specman Elite™, automates manual processes and detects critical flaws in hardware designs enabling delivery of the highest quality products and accelerating time-to-market. The company's strong market presence is driven by its proven technology, methodology, and solid strategic partnerships and programs. Verisity's customer list includes leading companies in all strategic technology sectors. Verisity is a global organization with offices throughout Asia, Europe, Israel, and North America. Verisity's principal executive offices are located in Mountain View, California, with its principal research and development offices located in Rosh Ha'ain, Israel.
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-on-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at www.arm.com.
Verisity is a registered trademark of Verisity Design, Inc. LicenseE is a trademark of Verisity Design. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
ARM and AMBA are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM China.
For more information contact:
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FYI - I do not write about weddings unless, of course, you are David Ehsanipoor, Effingham County's awesome spokesperson and his lucky bride, Jamie Ertle.
Due to my slight numerical dyslexia issue, I arrive at Cutter Ridge Ranch in Rincon at 4 p.m. - not 6 p.m. and somehow manage to park on Dr. John Odum's front yard. His gorgeous wife Amanda graciously shares that even though they are hosting the wedding, they are trying to keep everyone off their yard.
Passing gleaming white picket fences, I pull up next to Effingham County Sheriff Jimmie McDuffie, who, I must admit, is looking cowboy chic in his Western attire. Never knowing where a question can take you I ask, "Do you mind having a picture taken in front of that cute little pony?" He smiles and says, "That's my horse, Couey - he's a miniature Appaloosa that I rescued last year."
Who knew that the sheriff is a pet lover?
"I have four horses, two donkeys, 34 chickens and three cats." Good grief! Where does he keep them all?
While gathering camera equipment, I glance over and see Elvis. Yes - Elvis is standing in a pasture next to a massive white tent. I march over and ask Statesboro native Russ Lanier what on Earth is he doing? The public accountant refuses to share his iconic role in tonight's event. He and his 'Boro friends Jack and Joan Skinner tell me I'll have to wait for the big surprise.
So far I've met a animal loving sheriff and a Southern Elvis, so it's only fitting that I hear a bagpiper. Dan Ailes is a Scottish bagpiper who daylights as the assistant principal at Spencer Elementary in Rincon.
After teasing the tall single Chicago native with a promise to pose him with gorgeous women, I head over to the rustic stables to chat with Don White, a fast-talking Cajun from the great state of Louisiana. As the chief investigator for Effingham County attempts to gather all the groomsmen for a photo, I coax gorgeous ladies Jaden Payne and Lauren Dasher into a promised pic with the kilt wearing bagpiper.
While walking with the ladies through scenic green pastures, I decide that Lauren has got to be the best looking teacher in the South and learn that Jaden works at JCB with Live Links, a telematics program that offers GPS tracking and service alerts.
Leaving the ladies, I take the seat on the last row and meet Memorial University Medical Center physician Dr. Bob Beard, his well-mannered 4-year-old son Sean and lovely wife Teri. We talk about David's dad, Dr. Kaveh's amazing life and then how "his heart and how it expanded beyond anything he had ever known after the birth of his son Sean."
Following a humorous yet touching wedding ceremony, I head over to hug Pooler Police Cpl. Tripp Davis and IMAX movie man, "Pattu" Falgen Patel.
After setting up a viewing of "Oblivion" with the guys and the vivacious Robin Wheeler, we all head back up to snack on Chef Nick Mueller's scrumptious cuisine.
Daniel Flood is hanging out with Armando Tamargo, David Cribbs is being harassed by Danny Harrington, and when I ask "What's good in your life?" Mark Galipeau states for the record, "just being married to my wife, Lisa."
While trying to stay out of wedding photographer Teresa Ernest's way, I pause for a Diet Coke from my beverage coordinator, Sharon Winters. For the past five years, Sharon has kept me hydrated during my marathon shoots.
When you live in the chaotic, frenzied police world where disasters, accidents and misfortunes are the news of the day, it makes evenings like tonight even more unforgettable.
Having close to 300 close family and friends gather at an exclusive horse resort with Liquid Ginger serenading, your sheriff as the officiant and Elvis as a guest is about as memorable as you can get. Congrats to a quirky cool couple for a perfect Southern wedding in the South.
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In my last post I speculated on the ancestry of Thomas DAW (the labourer). We know that he was born and died in Uckfield but spent part of his life in Kent where he married Elizabeth WHITEBREAD in 1804. I have done a little work on Elizabeth's ancestry to try and take her back as far as possible but there is little information available other than on the LDS IGI records.
Some new surnames have popped up to be added to the family collection including BARTON, MARTIN, CROWHERST, VANE and DAY.
Here is a chart of her ancestry:
I tried to find deaths for all that are missing on the National Burial Index without success. I presumed that Elizabeth's mother, Sarah, might have re-married since she was only 47 when Henry died but again there are no records of her marrying. She also might have died before Henry.
Some new parishes have also turned up but I believe that they have merit because they are close to Hadlow. These are Marden and West Farleigh. So until further research can be done I am going to assume that these are Elizabeth's ancestors.


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Clippers' Chris Paul Undergoes Thumb Surgery
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul underwent surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right thumb, an injury that occurred last month before he played for the U.S. in the London Olympics.
The team said Paul had the surgery Tuesday and he is expected to be sidelined for eight weeks. That means the All-Star guard wouldn't resume basketball activities until mid-October. The Clippers open the season on Oct. 31 against Memphis.
The Clippers said Paul got hurt during the U.S. training camp in Las Vegas. Despite the injury, he went on to lead the U.S. men's team to a gold medal in London. Paul started all eight games in the Olympics, averaging 8.3 points, 5.1 assists and a tournament-best 2.5 steals.


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Splash Amaryllis
DetailsAmaryllis Bulb Splash is a double-petaled amaryllis with huge, decorative bi-colored flowers. Amaryllis Splash is truly striking, with its pointed petals resembling a spectacular red and white striped garden lily.
|Common Name
|Splash Amaryllis
|Botanical Name
|Hippeastrum Splash
|1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
|Ships As
|Bulb, Rhizome, Tuber
|Light Requirements
|Full Sun
|Flower Color
|Red, White
|Mature Height
|20-24" tall
|Bulb Size
|34/+ cm
|Planting Depth
|Place bulb so top inch or so of bulb sticks up out of the soil.
|Bloom Time
|Winter: 6-10 weeks after planting indoors.
|Flower Size
|Up to 8" flowers
|Planting Time
|Fall, Winter
|Easy to grow, Good for Cut Flowers, Good for Containers, Low Maintenance, Plants for Small Spaces, Good for Forcing
|Additional Information
|Hardy in zones 9-11.
|Ideal Region
|Coastal California, Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, West, Pacific Northwest
|Ships to Hawaii, Alaska & Canada
Planting Guides
Amaryllis and Paperwhites, are favorites for the winter holiday season. These bulbs are easy to grow with spectacular results. They need no chilling, and once planted can bloom in as little as 3-5 weeks for Paperwhites, and just 6-8 weeks for Amaryllis.
Tips For Growing Amaryllis (Easy!)
- When planting your bulb, select a pot that allows about one inch all around, and at least two inches below the bulb.
- Use a good quality soil-less potting mix or a blend of one part peat moss and one part coarse sand for planting.
- Make sure to not plant too deep and leave the top of the bulb ("shoulder') just slightly above the soil.
- Water in your newly planted bulbs thoroughly, but don't water again until the new sprout is well out of the bulb.
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Residents shocked by fee — Page 3 | Who's WHO is important — Page 11 mherst News-Times o. ember 4, 1998 Amherst, Ohio C ■ H <t . ■E - - rru.. all mortar ies crew working on roof Serious mortar deterioration to the bell tower atop city hall will add $5,000 to the cost of repairing the historic building's old roof. The defects were discovered last week by repair crews hired to replace a leaky slate roof and make the more th:-" century-old building structurally sound. The extra expense will be paid out of contingency funds set aside for the $400,000 project, which is expected to be completed by spring. The discovery may have prevented the bell tower or part of it from collapsing. Jim McCullough, a foreman for the Mid Air Construction Company, said sections of the tower probably could have fallen through the roof. Workmen found large sections of sandstone had been pried away from the tower by as much as three inches due to years of expansion and contraction caused by weathering. "It's a good thing they discovered this when they did because a heavy snow or strong wind storm could have brought it down and caused lots of damage or injury," mayor John Higgins said. The worst section was the tower's south wall facing Beaver Court. Parts of it, which were bowed outward, are being taken apart and re- mortared block by block. Stone blocks in the remainder of the tower are being wedged upward so mortar can be forced between them, McCullough explained. "It's a very time consuming thing, but it will be solid when we're done," he added. The deterioration is not uncommon in century old buildings. Mid Air is doing similar repair work to a county building in Canton, McCullough said. Had the south side collapsed, the mayor and McCullough said the remainder would have collapsed as well. "Il would have been a domino effect because, in effect, it would have had three legs and the weight would have caused it to sag and give way," Higgins said. "If that would have happened, we would have had 25 tons of stone coming down." The repairs also involve replacing badly rotted wood and arc expected to be completed within one or two weeks. Higgins has taken special interest in the restoration project because he wants to see Amherst's history preserved as much as possible. Mayor John Higgins and construction foreman Jim McCullough look over some of the Not only is city hall 'a fed- '%*''*r'z"~ ' erally designated landmark, it also is used as the city's logo on a variety of publications. "It's the grand old lady of town, so it should be fixed and saved," he said. The $400,000 borrowed 'through the sale of municipal bonds does not include second floor interior renovations. A group of residents is trying to raise about $70,000 for that restoration project In the meantime, the mayor has been looking for literature and other materials that describe the original interior of the building. Although historical information is available, it mainly deals with the build- j tag's history and exterior.- v"' - damage done by years of weathering to city hall's bell tower. — ThU photo shows some of the damage up close. Police captain shares top county honor by GLEN MLLER Barb Cowger-Vllag! News-Times reporter Two weeks ago, police captain Barbara Cowger-Vilagi was surprised to learn she had been nominated for the prestigious Women of Achievement Award. She was just as surprised to win it Oct. 28 during the 20th anniversary of the award held at DeLuca's Place in the Park. Cowger, who was nominated by mayor John Higgins, shared the award with Stella M. Frances, principal of Irving Elementary School in Lorain. A total of nine women were nominated. "I was surprised about this from the start," she said. "There were a lot of really very deserving women in this group that make just a multitude of contributions to their professions and the county." The award is given yearly to women who have achieved distinction in business, civic affairs, education and other professions. A 23-year veteran of the Amherst police department, Cowger-Vilagi has found time to serve on several community organizations, including the W.G. Nord Center's board of directors since 1996. Cowger-Vilagi credited "dedication and perseverance" for her achievements, saying her law enforcement profession has enabled her to help others. Her comments were echoed by Higgins, who said the captain "has shown a dedication to her work, community and fellow employees." She was especially pleased by a letter written by her son, councilman Edward Cowger, supporting her nomination. Cowger wrote how his mother taught him and his brothers to believe in "giving back to the community." "That letter meant more to me than I can tell you," she added. She also serves on the county's domestic violence task force, the county 911 review board, the American Legion and VFW ladies auxiliaries, and is a United Way coordinator for the city. The highest ranking female police officer in Lorain County, she be came a patrol person in 1975, when local and area law enforcement was still dominated by men. That didn't stop her from advancing through the ranks. "She's highly respected in the community not only for doing an excellent job, but as a trailblazer," the mayor said. "She has gone into what was once hallowed ground in Amherst and gone well." One of her best known endeavors was her involvement in convincing voters to appro' a $3 million levy for the construction of the new police station on U. Lake Street. "She worked tirelessly and unselfishly on getting the new Amherst police facility built," Higgins CONTINUED on page 2 Daughter's tale is family story for all » Terrisa Green Rudolph, daughter of Bill and Joanne Green of Amherst, is a 1990 graduate of Marion L. Steele High School. Her husband. Jay, son of Fred and Judy Rudolph of Amherst, is a 1989 graduate of MLS. They have two youngsters, Nicholas, six and a half, and Savanna, eight and a half months eld. The Rudolphs live in Kingsiand, Georgia, about five miles from the Florida Terrisa wrote Ibis article for the Submarine Wives dob. Her mother contacted the Newa-Tknet to determine whether the newspaper would Utoso print the article. "I believe dUe article would ke of irtatolt to ttosra people aad it esp k>ve He protects pur country; she waits patiently for return I decided to write Ibis story as a way for people to learn what life is like aboard a trident submarine. 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Mill' mamw. 50 cents Man, 52, accused of raping teen girls by QLEN MLLER News-Times reporter A 52-year-old Amherst man — once a school bus driver — b*s been charged with allegedly raping four teenage girls after reportedly luring them to his home with an elaborate sexual blackmail scheme. Amherst police said Andrew Bishop, of 675 Elyria Ave., has been charged with eight counts of rape and eight counts of corruption of a minor for reportedly raping the Nord Junior High School girls over a period of a year. Detective Alex Molnar said police prefer not to discuss their investigation in detail until the case is presented to die Lorain County Grand Jury. Bishop reportedly blackmailed the teenagers by telling them he had a videotape of them showing their breasts to some younger boys. He did not approach die girls while driving a school bus, but may have overheard the girls talking about the incident on a cordless phone conversation that was received by his police scanner. Bishop told the girls one of their fathers had made the tape and sold it to him for $500. He also threatened them by saying they would go to jail if they contacted police or told their parents. On another occasion. Bishop claimed to have a home security system with a camera that he had used to take additional pictures. He claimed he would escape punishment because he was doing nothing wrong. The teenagers were raped over a period of a year and on several different occasions. The girls reported never having sex before being approached by Bishop. Molnar said Bishop was captured by Portsmouth police while in a bingo parlor. His brother lives in the southern Ohio town. Police are unsure if he was attempting to flee the state. Regardless, Molnar said they believe he left Amherst after somehow learning die teenagers had reported ike rapes to their parents, who then informed police Oct 16. "All we know is that he wasn't home when we went there for him later that night," he said. Molnar said subsequent interviews with Bishop's relatives and his ex-wife revealed it was unusual for him not to be home and to miss work, Molnar said. He pleaded not guilty to the charges during arraignment in Oberlin Municipal Court Oct 28 and his being held in the Lorain County Correctional Facility on $150/100 bond. School superintendent Robert Boynton said Bishop also had foiled to report to work for several days. He has since been suspended without pay for failure to show up to work and will be dismissed at a forthcoming board of fhtratiqa He said he wasn't aware of the charges against Bishop until contacted by police. Bishop had a good driving aad employee record. He also had received treiaiag ia child Lskst mmW asWHaaaWtW *«BtfCikawaia ente mayea "We km 300 aamaeMm •ddai. -Wi ->
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Deadline Nears for '14 RV/MH Hall Nominations
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With the Oct. 31 deadline fast approaching, the RV/MH Hall of Fame Selection Committee has issued a call for nominations for the Class of 2014.
RV/MH Hall of Fame Chairman Barry Cole noted, "If you know of anyone who you believe deserves to be nominated for induction into the Hall of Fame now is the time to send in his or her nomination. On a regular basis colleagues ask, 'Why isn't this person or that person in the Hall of Fame?' Chances are, the reason is that no one has ever nominated them. My advice to them is, 'nominate them – don't wait for someone else to do it.'"
Darryl Searer, Hall president, added, "The Hall welcomes nominations from all RV and manufactured housing sectors, including manufacturers, dealers, campgrounds, housing communities, suppliers, user groups, trade media and associations, for the class of 2014 and beyond."
The RV/MH Heritage Foundation board recently approved a new and improved process for nominating and has made the nomination guidelines and forms available online at www.rvmhhalloffame.org/pages/nominations.cfm."
According to the new guidelines, anyone can nominate a person to the Hall of Fame that meets the eligibility requirements. The only people who may not be considered are those who currently serve on the Hall's Selection Committee. To be eligible the nominee must be, or have been, an active participant in any segment of the recreation vehicle or manufactured housing industries for a minimum of 25 years.
In addition, the nomination form must be filled out in its entirety and be accompanied by three supporting letters (no more, no less) that meet the Hall's guidelines. Incomplete nominations cannot be considered. If the nominee is not selected within three years, he or she remains eligible only if the nomination is resubmitted and refreshed with additional information.
When evaluating a potential nominee, the selection committee will consider the nominee's overall contributions to the good of the industry that include both his or her positions, accomplishments and innovations on the job as well as volunteer work both inside and outside the industry. Special emphasis is placed on volunteer work done on behalf of state and national associations and owner groups, the Hall of Fame itself and other industry-related organizations and causes. Favorable responses to these two basic questions are good starting points for Hall consideration.
If a completed nomination form and three properly prepared seconding letters are received by Oct. 31 of any year, the nominee will be in the pool of candidates considered for the following year's class and for two years beyond that if not selected that year. The Hall's Selection Committee will announce its selections in January and those chosen will be honored at the Hall's Annual Induction dinner in August. The Hall's bylaws allow for up to 10 inductees per year.
Cole said, "The Selection Committee is made up of an equal number of members of the RV and manufactured housing industries, and members will only vote on nominees from their respective industries."
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According to The Times of India, in 2010 a group of German physicists claimed "to have measured the shortest-ever time interval by discovering the tiniest duration an electron takes to leave the atom."
The scientists found that "when light is absorbed by atoms, the electrons become excited and get ejected from the atom if the photons carry sufficient energy." However, when electrons are separated from atoms there is a time delay of 20 attoseconds, "which they claim is the shortest time interval measured to date."
Reasonably, it is a bit difficult for us to wrap our heads around such a short interval of time, so consider this: one attosecond is one billionth of one billionth of a second. It can be written as 1 as, 0.000000000000000001 seconds, 10-18 seconds, or described as one quintillionth of a second. Still fuzzy?
To really help us envision this length of time, the BBC News painted this picture: "If 100 attoseconds is stretched so that it lasts one second, one second would last 300 million years on the same scale."