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The Living Daylights
Director: John Glen
Actors: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Art Malik, Andreas Wisniewski, Thomas Wheatley, Desmond Llewelyn
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Release Year: 1987
Duration: 130 min
Storyline: James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond...
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How to Move through a Book on Your Kindle Paperwhite
Reading a book on a Kindle Paperwhite is intuitive. To go to the next page, tap anywhere on the page, except near the top and along the left. Tap near the left edge of the display to move back one page. To see the toolbar, tap near the top edge of the display.
Go to a specific spot on your Kindle Paperwhite
You can also jump directly to various parts of a book. Tap near the top of the screen to display the toolbars, and then tap Go To. A pop-up window appears.
Note on the second-generation Kindle Paperwhite (on the right in the above figure) the two tabs at the top of the menu that display Contents and Notes. You use the Contents tab to navigate through the book, and the Notes tab to navigate through personal annotations you've made, as well as popular and public annotations.
On your second-generation Kindle Paperwhite, to see popular and public annotations on the Notes section of the Go To screen, you must have Popular Highlights and Public Notes enabled. To turn them on, tap Menu→Settings→Reading Options→Notes & Highlights. Use the toggle switch to turn on Popular Highlights and Public Notes.
The list of Go To options may differ depending on the book. Here are the options you may see:
Beginning: The first words of text in the book.
Page or Location: A particular page or location in the book.
Cover: The book's cover.
Book Info or Front Matter: Content that appears before the start of the book, such as a dedication.
Chapter listing: The list of chapters, similar to a traditional table of contents. Then tap a chapter title or number to go directly to that chapter.
If the chapter listing is more than one page long, swipe up the list with your finger to advance to additional chapters. A scroll bar indicator on the right provides an approximation of the length of the list.
About the Author: Biographical information about the author of the book.
Recommended Reads: A list of additional books by the same publisher or author.
End: The end of the book, which displays a page where you can rate and share the book on Amazon and Goodreads (currently available only on the second-generation Kindle Paperwhite). If your Kindle Paperwhite is linked to Facebook through Goodreads, your rating will also be posted to this social networking site.
Setting a bookmark
You can use personal bookmarks to help you navigate through a book. To set a bookmark, tap in the upper-right corner of the screen. A flag appears, along with the location and chapter (or part) of the book, with a plus sign (+) in a circle. To set the bookmark, simply tap the plus sign. The flag darkens, indicating the marked location.
After you set a bookmark, tap the upper-right corner and a small menu appears, displaying all the bookmarks that have been set in the book. When you tap a bookmarked location, a window insert opens on the screen, as shown in the following figure. You can read the page from the insert or go directly to it by tapping the page on the screen. To return to your former location, navigate by bookmark or use the Back icon from the toolbar.
To delete a bookmark, tap the X in the drop-down menu. To add the bookmark again, tap +. Note that the display toggles between + and X, depending on whether or not a bookmark is set.
Find your place on the Kindle Paperwhite
The Kindle Paperwhite gives you several options for knowing your location in a book.
As you read, the area at the bottom of the screen displays a location number for the text currently in view and a percentage indicating how much of the book you've read. Tap the location number to cycle through the minutes left in the chapter, the hours and minutes left in the book, and the location. Your final choice becomes the default.
All e-books have location information, but not all have page numbers. Time to dig into the difference in these terms and how you may use them to reference different parts of a book:
Location: The concept of a fixed, printed "page" doesn't apply to e-books because you can vary the font type, font size, line spacing, and words per line. Instead of page numbers, e-books use location as a marker indicating how far you are in the e-book. The location remains constant even if the screen or font size changes.
One "unit" of location is equivalent to 128 bytes of information in the e-book file.
Page number: Many e-books can also display a page number that reflects the page number in the printed edition of the book. This information is helpful, for example, if you're in a reading group in which some members use Kindles and others use printed copies of the book.
Discover your reading speed
The Kindle Paperwhite can learn your reading speed, so it can tell you how many minutes or hours of reading time remain in the current chapter or book.
How does the Kindle Paperwhite determine how much reading time is left in a chapter or book? When you first open a book, Learning reading speed appears at the bottom of the screen. After the device calculates your reading speed, it uses this figure for the rest of your reading experience in that particular document.
The device can relearn your reading speed. This feature is helpful if you have paged very quickly through a book, making the reading speed inaccurate. Simply tap the top of the screen to display the toolbar, touch the Search icon, and type the following:
Tap the search arrow and the device will display 0 search results. Press the Back icon and Learning reading speed will again be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Menu options for Kindle Paperwhite books
When reading a book, you can access useful features by tapping the top of the screen to display the toolbar and then tapping the Menu icon.
The following options appear depending on the version of the Kindle Paperwhite:
Shop Kindle Store: Go to the Kindle Store to browse and find e-books.
Vocabulary Builder: Open the list of words you have looked up in the dictionary.
Book Description: Display the book's Kindle Store description. Wireless must be on to view this information.
About the Author: When available, see biographical information about the author as well as a list of other Kindle books that the author has written.
Landscape Mode: Change the orientation of the page from portrait to landscape mode.
Sync to Furthest Page Read: If you have viewed the current book on another device, you can adjust your location to the furthest page read.
Select this option if you want to use Whispersync to synchronize your Kindle Paperwhite book with an audio book from Audible.
Add Bookmark: Save a particular location in a book. One book can have multiple bookmarks. You can tell whether your current location is bookmarked by a little dog-ear icon that appears in the top-right corner.
View Notes & Marks: Display the highlighted sections, notes, and bookmarks for the current book. Popular highlights from other readers are also displayed.
Reading Progress: Select the default for the reading progress displayed at the bottom of the screen: location in book, time left in chapter, or time left in book.
Settings: Toggle Airplane mode on and off and access options for Wi-Fi networks, registration, reading, parental controls, time, language, and more.
If you don't see the Settings menu choice, make sure you have firmware version 5.3.0 or later on your Kindle Paperwhite. To determine the firmware version, from the Home screen, tap Menu→Settings→Menu→Device Info. The firmware version is displayed in the middle of the screen. If it is less than 5.3.0, upgrade your device.


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IE8, Safari Fall to Pwn2Own Hackers, Chrome Still Standing
Hackers at the Pwn2Own 2011 hacker conference at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver broke through defenses in Apple's Safari 5.0.3 on fully patched Mac OS X 10.6.6 and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 SP1.
Pwn2Own has become one of the top security events of the year, even if it's a rather routine affair. Lots of products get hacked, some survive. It's not clear if the contest says anything meaningful about the security of the products, but there is a wide consensus that competitions like this improve security overall by pushing developers to do their best, if only out of pride.
This year both Apple and Google released last-minute updates to their browsers fixing large numbers of vulnerabilities. Microsoft didn't issue any IE patches this past Patch Tuesday, but clearly Pwn2Own has become a deadline date for security fixers at some companies. Google in fact pushed its release-level browser up a version to 10. At this rate there will be a version 25 before too long.
Chrome in fact escaped Pwn2Own unscathed, as the one hacker scheduled to attack it didn't show. Perhaps he was stymied by Google's last-minute updates.
The hackers work hard for these contests and not just for the prize money. Ars Technica cited Chaouki Bekrar, co-founder of security firm VUPEN, who performed the Safari hack, describing how they had to create new tools and attack code from scratch.
The IE8 hack by security researcher Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security took 5 to 6 weeks to put together: "The successful exploit required use of three separate vulnerabilities: two to achieve successful code execution within the browser, and then a third to escape Internet Explorer's Protected Mode sandbox."
Firefox runs the gauntlet today. After that go the smartphones: iPhone, Blackberry OS, Android, and Windows Phone 7. Video below, though NSFW.


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"may last longer [than a Brooks]"?
but Brooks last forever. Personally I'd spend on a Brooks over this every time as they look a lot better and they are an investment purchase.
Spa Cycles has brought out a range of three leather saddles at a distinctly more wallet-friendly price-point than their Brooks counterparts: the Wharfe to Brooks' Swift, the Aire to Brooks' Swallow, and the saddle here: the Spa Cycles Nidd to Brooks' B17.
The Nidd's dimensions are almost identical to the B17's with a length of 277 mm, a width of 168mm and a height of 65 mm, though at 623 grams on our scales it's a bit burlier than the B17's claimed 520 grams. At £35, it's also a heck of a lot cheaper.
There are more similarities with the Brooks equivalent: you get saddle loops and the usual nose-bolt to tighten the saddle up once it's started sagging excessively - use sparingly.
Unlike Brooks, the Nidd has a woven synthetic material bonded to the underside - I'm guessing that this helps manage stretch. It also possibly protects the leather from road spray, though I would avoid getting the saddle too wet - that would be a good way to ruin it. You see many randonneurs keeping a plastic bag stuffed between the rails and the saddle for this very reason.
I own a Brooks Swallow and a Swift, so that is what I am comparing the Nidd against. I was always warned that leather saddles take about 500 miles to break in, which I've found to be a bit of an exaggeration for the Brooks; they were pretty comfy and springy from day one - though it's only fair to say that both the Brooks have titanium rails and are therefore, so I'm told, more comfortable earlier.
The Nidd not so much. It was rock-hard when I picked it up from road.cc HQ and though you can just about detect some give after 250 miles, comfortable is not (yet) how I would describe the saddle. This long breaking-in period is almost certainly a function of the thicker leather that is used compared to Brooks saddles, the upside of which is that the saddle should last a lot longer - provided it's taken care of properly (disclaimer: I am not a leather expert!)
That is not to say that I don't like the saddle. The shape actually suits my behind better (on my touring bike) than the Swift and Swallow that I own - it is much wider and therefore offers more support in a more upright position. While the saddle is hard, it is not painfully so for my one-hour-long commutes. I think persevering with the saddle will reap rewards in the form of a saddle that's just right for me - eventually.
A great quality leather saddle at an incredible price - if you don't mind investing some time to break it in.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Spa Cycles Nidd Leather Saddle
Size tested: Brown
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Spa cycles bill it as "Our touring saddle, made from Australian cowhide on high quality chrome plated cro-mo frames."
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Width (at widest point): 168mm
Length: 277mm
Weight: 629g
Looks really well made and finished - as good as a Brooks.
As the leather is thicker than Brooks, it is heavier and takes longer to break in. This one isn't comfy yet.
With the extra thick leather, these should outlive most mortals.
20% heavier than the equivalent Brooks - less than half the price though.
Once broken in, I'm sure that like my Brooks, this will be a comfy perch. I haven't got there yet though.
A quality leather saddle for £35 that will last a lifetime; can't say fairer than that.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
It worked well, but go easy on the distance for the first 500 miles.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The price, incredible value, without giving up any quality as far as I can tell.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
The long breaking in period. Mind you, the flip-side of that is better durability.
Did you enjoy using the product? I'm starting to enjoy it, now that it's starting to break in.
Would you consider buying the product? Probably not, the long breaking in period is a bit of a showstopper for me.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes, but I would caution them about the breaking in period.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
Great choice if you're looking for a quality, durable leather saddle and don't want to fork out Brooks prices.
About the tester
Age: 32 Height: 1.78m Weight: 76kg
I usually ride: All of them! My best bike is: Cervelo Dual
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, touring, club rides, fixed/singlespeed, Audax
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"may last longer [than a Brooks]"?
but Brooks last forever. Personally I'd spend on a Brooks over this every time as they look a lot better and they are an investment purchase.
At 75 I can speak with a little authority on that statement, Brooks last for ever, they don't. I've had two Brooks Swallows, the original ones with spring steel stitched in to keep the swallow shape, a number of B17's, the latest B17 special has had two chrome bolts broken in the last 18 months, replaced by Brooks no hassle there. I have just in the last month bought the Spa Aire swallow look alike and at £45 a bargain and is a very good perch also, time will tell but I may not be around for another 75 years to give judgement.


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Last week I had the pleasure of reviewing a brand new gluten-free product, Custom Choice Cereal. Custom Choice Cereal is a gluten-free cereal mix that you create that is then mixed in a dedicated facility to avoid cross-contamination. Does it get any better than that?
I was able to select my cereal mix from a nice variety of choices. First, you select a base from 3 different choices. After selecting a base, you add your favorite dried fruits. Then you can add nuts or seeds and finally, you can name your mix. The whole process from start to finish could not be easier.
I selected Good Morning Flakes as my base. Good Morning Flakes are made up of Organic corn flakes enriched with flax, buckwheat, quinoa & amaranth. I chose apricots & cranberries for my dried fruit & almond & coconut for my nuts and/or seeds.
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I was pleasantly surprised to see how much dried fruit & nuts my mix contained. What a great combination of flavors. I love to mix things into my cereal and rarely just eat 1 cereal plain, so this is right up my alley. Another wonderful gluten-free option out on the market. Prices vary based on the mix you create.
Check out my latest Examiner articles. Roasted Fall Vegetables and Gluten-Free Dining at P.F. Chang's.
Hope you all have a great Saturday! Go BUCKEYES!
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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: THE MOVIE! When the Autobots set off on their mission to find the Knights of Cybertron, RODIMUS gave REWIND a simple instruction: film everything. The result is a documentary that will forever change your perception of life on board the Lost Light. Discover RUNG's secret! Meet the greatest Autobot of all time! And learn what SKIDS really got up to on Hedonia!


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Anonymous DOJ Breach More Embarrassing Than Harmful
Anonymous claimed to have seized internal emails and other information from a Department of Justice serve earlier this week. That doesn't appear to be the case, based on an analysis of the actual torrent file.
A group of hackers associated with hacking collective Anonymous released a torrent file allegedly containing 1.7 GB of data stolen from "the United States Bureau of Justice" onto Pirate Bay. In an online statement, the attackers claimed to have seized "shiny things" such as internal emails and a database dump. The group said it was trying to "spread information" and to show "the corruption that exists" within the government.
The "United States Bureau of Justice" presumably refers to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs. According to its Website, Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information "on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government."
Identity Finder downloaded the torrent and ran its data discovery and protection software on the file's contents. The 1.7 GB zipped file contained roughly 6.5 GB of Web server files and did not appear to "contain any sensitive personal information, internal documents, or internal emails," the company said in a statement.
Anonymous Claims Unsubstantiated
There was a folder named "Mail," which was largely empty and contained only three unique email addresses. Two were "clearly administrative," Identity Finder said in its analysis. The file also contained a large amount of crime statistical data in graphs and nearly 3,000 comma-delimited-files. Considering most of the research and compiled data by the Bureau of Justice Statistics is open to the public, being part of the torrent file does not appear to be very damaging.
"Identity Finder has not been able to substantiate" claims made by Anonymous, the company said.
Potential Danger in Web Server Files
What may be of concern is the fact that the entire Web server file structure, JavaScript files, server and error logs, and other website components was in the torrent. Attackers could study the file structure to craft future attacks, according to Identity Finder. Server exception logs included in the torrent could also give insights in the network topology.
While the breach of a government Website, especially one belonging to the nation's top law enforcement officials, is a serious matter, this incident appears to be more embarrassing than actually harmful, said Identity Finder. No personal information or confidential information appear to have been leaked.
The Justice Department also downplayed the significance of the breach when the news first broke on May 22.
"The department is looking into the unauthorized access of a website server operated by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that contained data from their public website," the department said in a statement. "The Bureau of Justice Statistics website has remained operational throughout this time. The department's main website, justice.gov, was not affected."


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Worley's quality debut for Twins ends in a loss
MINNEAPOLIS -- With a rotation that finished with the second-worst ERA in the Majors in 2012, the Twins preached all offseason about how important it will be in 2013 for the starters to give the team a chance to win.
Fortunately, Vance Worley was able to do just that in his debut against the Tigers on Monday on Opening Day, but unfortunately, the offense couldn't uphold its end of the bargain.
Worley settled into a quality start, but the offense couldn't complete a late rally in a 4-2 loss in front of a sold-out Opening Day crowd on a day that featured near-freezing temperatures at Target Field.
"We had a chance the whole game, and that's all you can ask for," third baseman Trevor Plouffe said. "Our pitching kept us in there. Vance did a great job today, and our bullpen came in and did a great job. But it's all about getting those timely hits, and we didn't do that today. But I like where we're at."
The Twins battled back after falling into an early three-run hole, as Tigers ace Justin Verlander was his usual dominant self but lasted just five scoreless innings.
The Twins loaded the bases in the sixth inning and again in the seventh against reliever Drew Smyly but could only come away with two runs -- on a wild pitch in the sixth and an RBI single by Ryan Doumit off reliever Al Alburquerque in the seventh.
Alburquerque was able to get out of a big jam with the bases loaded and one out in the seventh, striking out Chris Parmelee and Plouffe to end the inning. Joaquin Benoit and Phil Coke then combined to close it out for Detroit, which gave Verlander his first win on Opening Day in six tries.
"We just missed some opportunities," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "The guy on the other side usually does that pretty good. Verlander is a pretty good pitcher, and they have some good bullpen guys. But we had some opportunities, and we couldn't get it done. But if we keep putting them out there, I think we'll be OK."
Worley, who was making his first career Opening Day start after being acquired in the offseason in the trade that sent Ben Revere to Philadelphia, struggled early.
The Tigers wasted no time getting on the board. Austin Jackson led off the game with a single and scored on a groundout by Miguel Cabrera after Torii Hunter singled to right. Hunter then scored on a two-out double by Prince Fielder.
Detroit added a run in the second, when Jhonny Peralta walked, stole second and scored on a single by Omar Infante.
"The first couple of innings, I was up in the zone," Worley said. "But after that I was able to get some quicker outs. It would've been nice to have that earlier, but I was just trying to get comfortable out there."
Worley settled down after that, retiring 12 of the last 16 batters he faced. He ended up giving up three runs on eight hits and a walk over six innings but was saddled with the loss.
But he was still able to outlast Verlander, who didn't allow a run and struck out seven but went only five frames after throwing 91 pitches.
"I thought Worley did a good job," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "We heard so much about him as far as being a competitor and everything. You could see that today. He competes his fanny off, and he did a good job for them. He competed very hard, and that was the report we had on him."
The Twins didn't have many chances against Verlander but finally got on the board against Smyly in the sixth. They loaded the bases with two outs, which led to Gardenhire deciding to use Wilkin Ramirez as a pinch-hitter for shortstop Pedro Florimon.
The first run scored on a wild pitch by Smyly, but Ramirez grounded a 3-2 fastball to shortstop to end the potential rally.
The Twins loaded the bases against Smyly again in the seventh inning after Joe Mauer and Josh Willingham singled and Justin Morneau walked with one out. Alburquerque entered and promptly served up an RBI single to Doumit, but Plouffe and Parmelee both struck out to end the inning.
"It was a big at-bat," Plouffe said of his strikeout. "It's something I'll continue to work on. He pitched me different than he had before, so he won that battle."
The Tigers added an insurance run in the eighth. After they loaded the bases with two outs, right-handed reliever Josh Roenicke came on in relief of Brian Duensing, but his first pitch as a member of the Twins was a run-scoring wild pitch.
The Twins went down quietly over the final two innings and haven't been above .500 since the last day of the season in 2010, but they believe it's way too early to hit the panic button.
"This is Game 1," Doumit said. "We have 161 to go. They came out on top today, but we'll see how it goes on Wednesday."


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YouTube channel for court judgments
The decisions of judges in the Supreme Court will be made available to watch on YouTube.
A dedicated channel for the UK's highest court has been set up on the video sharing website, and five-minute summaries of appeals will be posted shortly after they are read out in court from Wednesday morning.
A back catalogue of 25 judgments from the last legal term, October to December 2012, is to be made public.
The move follows a live web streaming service of proceedings and is designed to make the work of the Supreme Court "as accessible as possible".
Lord Neuberger, president of the Supreme Court, said: "Demand for our live web stream of proceedings has far outstripped our expectations. Around 20,000 people watch each month. Making our judgment summaries available as a video archive seemed the obvious next step.
"We hope this new service will open up another window on our work and the reasoning behind our decisions, and broaden our audience."
The brief summaries, written by the judges themselves, are designed to explain the background to each appeal, the decision the court has reached and the reasons for that decision.
They have been delivered in court since the Supreme Court opened in 2009.


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Bang for your Buck!
From Mom Blog to Money Blog online training workshop is designed with the busy mom in mind. I have three very active boys and just like you juggle continually. So instead of including a lot of stories and long-winded instructions, I'd prefer to SHOW you how to re-create the success that I enjoy today.
This Online Training Workshop Includes:
17 How-To Videos
Since I'm a visual learner, included are videos with screen-capture technology to easily walk you through the process of turning your Mom Blog into a Money Blog. It's like I'll be right there with you on your journey every step of the way. {squeal}
What's great about the videos is that you can pause them if you get interrupted. You'll be able to see what I'm doing on my screen which eliminates so many questions and uncertainty, and you can watch them whenever you want! Unlike a weekend conference or scheduled phone call that's one time only, simply pull up any video you want at any time that's convenient for you. {I've got your back}
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Re-creating someones system to success can feel overwhelming. Therefore I have included printable checklists that you can print out, or if you're a little techy re-create into a spreadsheet.
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The Value of Sport
January 25, 2013
Teamwork, leadership, and commitment define Lewis & Clark students—in the classroom and on the fields of play. Current student-athletes pass along strategies for making the most of the college experience.
Pete Fisher '13
Hometown: Mercer Island, Washington
Majors: psychology and Hispanic studies
College is a time to learn about yourself, and the best way to do that is to push the boundaries. Taking a class outside your major or joining a club you were scared to be a part of can become the most memorable and rewarding experience of your college career.
Ali Brauer '15
Hometown: Portland, Oregon
Major: mathematics
Lewis & Clark coaches stress "academics first, then athletics." While being a college athlete is a major commitment, participation provides you with an instant friend group, full of teammates and coaches who care about you as an individual.
Andrew LeDonne '13
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Major: economics
Be proactive in your education. Apply for a Student Academic Affairs Board (SAAB) grant to explore something you're passionate about, from a start-up business idea to an art project to bringing an interesting speaker to campus.
Madison Hollenbeck '15
Hometown: Shoreline, Washington
Major: undecided
Find a balance between the work and the social side of being on campus, and you'll be golden. Lewis & Clark has all the resources to help you get through. College is all about having pride, being spirited, working hard, and having fun.
Jake Costantino '15
Hometown: Fontana, California
Major: biology
Come prepared to be challenged mentally, physically, and emotionally—and be ready to have a great time being a part of the Pioneer family.
Alicia Callejo-Black '14
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Major: psychology
Cherish the opportunity of being a collegiate athlete. It is an amazing experience, and the bonds you form with team members and coaches can last a lifetime.
Gillian Lowe '15
Hometown: Allen, Texas
Major: psychology
It's hard to balance athletics and academics, but it's worth the effort. You'll meet some of your best friends on the team and it will have a huge impact on your college experience. Do what you love, and if you have a passion for something, don't wait! Pursue it!
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Goodguy's Northwest Nationals - Banzai Run to Spokane
Goodguys' 5th Great Northwest Nationals
Sometimes all it takes to put the wheels in motion is a little spark. Since we ran Al Ming's '65 Chevy short Fleetside from Spokane, Washington, in the Readers' Trucks section a year ago, we have not only attended the Spokane Goodguys show held August 18-20, but we've also shot 11 truck features while we were there as well.
The snowball started rolling when we phoned Al to get a little more information about his truck. The next thing you know we were talking about his future plans to swap out his punched-out 283 for a 383 stroker and upgrade his suspension and brakes with the latest goodies from Jim Meyer Racing Products. Knowing Jim Meyer is located in Oregon, which is next door to Washington, we asked Al to tell us a little more about the custom classic truck scene in the Northwest. That was all it took. Before anyone could say, "You'd have to be crazy to drive 2,700 miles in a weekend," we were on our way.
We checked out a brand-new '06 Harley-Davidson F-150 from the Ford Motor Company's press fleet and hit the road late Thursday night. By the time the sun had risen on Friday morning, we were almost at the top of California, heading into Oregon. Somehow it was a whole bunch longer than it looked like on the map, but by Saturday morning we had rolled into Spokane right on time. From the very instant we spotted the Goodguys' banners at the front gate, it was clear that our journey was well worth the drive. There were super nice up-to-'72 customized vintage trucks from all over the Western states and provinces. It wasn't unusual to see Montana, Wyoming, Alberta, and British Columbia plates in with the mix of Washington and Oregon vehicles.
This is the first time Custom Classic Trucks has covered the Spokane show, but one thing is for sure: it will not be the last. A special thanks to all the people who shared their hospitality with us while we were there, and we hope to see you again next year. For more information about the next Great Northwest Nationals, log onto www.good-guys.com. CCT


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Item is a green booklet with the title "Daily Strength" used for religious distribution. Printed by Scripture Gift Mission, London UK.
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Item is a green booklet with the title "Daily Strength" used for religious distribution. Printed by Scripture Gift Mission, London UK.
"How Can I Be Ready for Christ's Coming?" Booklet
Item is a booklet titled "How Can I Be Ready for Christ's Coming?". Written by J. L. Tucker and printed by The Quiet Hour, California.
"The Harness Makers of Sackville" Newsreel Film
Item is a DVD titled "The Harness Makers of Sackville," produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1965.1 x 16 mm B&W silent print footage
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Item is a magazine containing an advertisement for Fawceet coal and wood heaters, 2 letterheads for the Fawcett Foundry and photographs of the executive directors and officers.Title: "Time and Tide in the Atlantic Provinces"
104th Anti-tank Battery, 7th Anti-Tank Regiment RCA collection
This fonds consists primarily of histories of the 104th Anti-Tank Battery and the 7th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery and supporting materials. Included are a printed history of the 7th Anti-Tank Regiment, a photocopied history of the...
The 104th Battery
Item is a property deed transferring 300 acres of land between Sackville/Dorchester from "Christ Richardson & others" to "Jn. [John?] Wheldon"Single piece of paper is folded into a booklet
Item is an excerpt from the 20 October 1870 Chignecto Post (vol. 1, no. 22) containing the Literature & Poetry and Advertisements sections.
Item is a bulletin of train timetables and instructions for Monday 10 June 1889 signed by D. Pottinger, chief superintendent based in Moncton.
1905 Sackville Hockey Team Photograph
Item is a framed photograph of the 1905 Sackville Town Hockey team with their Provincial Championship trophy pictured in the centre.
1912 - 1913 Blueprint of Sackville
Item is a blueprint map of Sackville surveyed by Class 1912-1913. Includes York St., Main St., Weldon St., Park Lane, Josiah Wood's home, Music Hall Block, Post Office, Methodist Church and other buildings of importance.


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'Gypsy': Something's Rotten, This Time In Slovakia
- Director: Martin Sulik
- Genre: Drama
- Running Time: 107 minutes
Not rated; violence, partial nudity
With: Jan Mizigar, Martin Hangurbadzo, Martina Kotlarova, Attila Mokos, Miroslav Gulyas
In Romany and Slovak with subtitles
Dad just died violently. Mom married the man who might be his killer. And now the dead man's ghost is appearing to his son.
That plot comes from Hamlet, of course, but Slovak director Martin Sulik's Gypsy is not otherwise Shakespearean. There are no soliloquies and little dialogue. The prince is 15 and inarticulate, and his Ophelia is entirely sane. She's about to be exiled from her community for the same reasons that nearly everyone else in this tale is victimized: poverty and prejudice.
Set in a small mountain hamlet in eastern Slovakia, Gypsy has a documentary-style naturalism; the location is real and most of the actors nonprofessional. Only the periodic appearance of that ghost — or a purloined ostrich — adds a note of the fantastic.
The film opens with a closeup of a pair of soulful brown eyes. They belong to Adam (Jan Mizigar), a kid with so much potential that he attracts the attention of Gadjo — a Romany word generally translated in the subtitles as "whitie." Adam is "black," as Eastern Europeans often refer to Roma, or gypsies.
The boy is a favorite of the local priest (professional actor Attila Mokos), the only non-Roma in the destitute village. Adam is also cultivated by a trio of visiting blonde- and red-haired ethnologists who are documenting Roma culture, not always with exquisite sensitivity. He's inspired to seek a better life by Jula (Martina Kotlarova), his almost-girlfriend. He even accepts legit jobs, an option few of his neighbors explore.
But the kid regularly gets into trouble, sometimes because he's trying to protect his glue-sniffing younger brother, Marian (Martin Hangurbadzo). Life doesn't get better when the boys' freshly widowed mother marries their uncle, Zigo (Miroslav Gulyas), the settlement's fixer, loan shark and crime boss.
Zigo tells Adam and Marian that stealing from whites is justified because non-Roma will abuse them at every opportunity. Arrested for a railyard theft, the boys learn that their stepfather is right, at least partially, when the cops brutalize them. But then they never would have gotten busted if Zigo hadn't insisted they join him in larceny.
Scripted by Sulik and Marek Lescak, Gypsy is direct and unfussy. The movie's stylistic simplicity places the occasional poetic moments in high relief. The scene in which Adam discovers a knife in a chunk of ice is as stunning as it is matter-of-fact. And the story's coda is gently but hauntingly surreal.
As in the films of Franco-Roma director Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Gadjo Dilo), music is central; the priest leads the villagers in song, and the ethnologists delight in (and carefully record) the locals' exuberant folk-dance tunes. When Roma music isn't playing, composer Vladimir Godar provides Renaissance-style chamber music that's elegant, if sometimes a little too pretty for the story and its setting.
Gypsy won three jury prizes at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, a country that also has a marginalized Roma community. The movie may not feel quite so urgent in the U.S., with its complex multicultural mix. But the film's local color is only a small part of its power. After all, Hamlet is not primarily about the state of Denmark.


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Bride's baskets or bride's bowls are usually one-of-a-kind novelties made in American and European glass factories. They were made in almost every color of art glass and most have silver-plated holders with handles. They were especially popular about 1880 when the decorated basket was often given as a wedding gift. Cut glass baskets were popular after 1890. All bride's baskets lost favor about 1905. Bride's baskets and bride's bowls may also be found in other glass sections.
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SKF helps Prague subway system monitor escalator gearboxes
The challenge
Damaged by exposure to heavy floods, 35 escalators in the Prague subway system required extensive repairs, including a complete gearbox refurbishment operation. Recognizing a unique upgrade opportunity and after the escalators were put in service, the maintenance department wanted to follow-up the new gearboxes running condition performance by implementing a condition monitoring campaign.
The solutionAs part of a joint team supporting the escalator refurbishments, SKF application specialists suggested implementing a predictive maintenance program using SKF tools and technologies. SKF worked with subway operators to develop the program, then used SKF Microlog units to record and transmit to the maintenance department on regular basis the vibration levels of the gearboxes and drive bearings.
The results
The subway's maintenance team reports overall improvements in uptime and reliability. Equipped with greater gearbox knowledge, the team has been able to anticipate and prevent costly bearing failures.


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Many Canadians opt for the short courses instead of being locked into the formal studies environment. They take these courses to sharpen and enhance their skills in order to switch to a better career. The availability of online short courses for the Canadian students helps them to do their official work as well as adhere to the family commitments too. People can study and learn these courses in their own time and at their own pace without any kind of obligations. Most of these courses are affordable, and many universities extend support in the form of discounted fees.
Insight into distance learning programs
Canada stands among the world's most literate countries. The Canadians have a special emphasis on the right type of education. Many well-known universities are based in Canada that provides Bachelors, Masters, Online, and Distance learning educational degrees to the Canadians. The students can choose from versatile courses right from Healthcare, Computers, Management, Politics, Mathematics, and much more. The job market of Canada is also a flourished one with right people being placed at the right jobs.
Top 5 distance learning MBA programs
The Canadians are mainly tilting towards the business-related courses because of the availability of many business and management opportunities in the country. Most of the students are attracted towards the courses provided in Finances, Economics, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Human Resources Management. The MBA is a two-year study course that makes the Canadian well-versed in the proficiencies attained with the help of this course. This study course is rendered through the Distance Education mode to the students. This supports the students to find the jobs in their respective areas quickly and with good perks.
Which top-notch courses are available for international students?
Most of the students come to Canada to enroll themselves in the courses of international reputation. The high-quality education and innovative educational technology make Canada the first choice. Many top-level courses are available for the International students at an affordable tuition fee and in famous universities. Mostly the students coming from other countries studies in Canada because these Universities and Private Accredited Colleges have global tie-ups. According to a study, more than 90% of the Graduates get employed in less than the 6-months period.
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Students residing in Canada now have a wide variety of options with the availability of online learning schools. These courses are certified and recognized by top universities. Below are the names of top 10 reputed online Canadian learning schools:


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The Stamford woman mauled and disfigured by a chimpanzee five years ago cannot sue the state of Connecticut, a panel of lawmakers decided Wednesday, siding with a state official.
A judiciary committee voted 35-3 on Wednesday afternoon to uphold the state claims commissioner's decision last year and prevent Charla Nash from suing, after the 2009 chimp attack in Stamford left her disfigured.
Last year, State Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr. had refused Nash's request to sue, arguing state officials were not required by Connecticut law to seize the chimpanzee.
Nash released the following statement in response to the decision:
"I am heartbroken. The fact that I will not be able to tell my side of the story to a court of law is devastating. This process isn't fair. Right now, I need some time to think things through and talk with my family. I wanted a chance to be able to pay my medical bills and get the assistance I need to live as normal of a life as possible. I can't give up hope now. This means too much to my daughter Briana and me."
Nash initially sought $150 million in financial damages following the attack and appealed to lawmakers at a Judiciary Committee hearing March 21.
Today is the committee's deadline for voting bills to the floor of the House of Representatives or Senate.


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The Juno Generation 3 LED Downlight Series now includes a WarmDim model. Using a microprocessor-controlled light engine to warm the LED color temperature while dimming, this model takes the LED color temperature from 3,000K to 2,000K. In addition, the product offers 600 lm of light while using just 14W of power. New construction and remodel housing styles include 4-in., 5-in., and 6-in. sizes. Additional features include a low-profile housing that fits in 2 × 6 ceiling joists, the company's Real Nail 3 bar hanger system for new construction applications, a T-bar notch for suspended ceilings, and a 120V LED driver.
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In This Issue
Time Toes the Liberal Line; NewsBites: CBS Stonewalls; Revolving Door: A Vance Degree in Journalism; Media Promote Liberal Anti-Tax Cut Position; Update on Past Cooke Awards; One-Party PBS; Conceding the Obvious; Janet Cooke Award: Homeless Hype: CBS, CNN, NBC
Time Toes the Liberal Line
Last year Time Magazine led its October 17 issue with a letter from Managing editor Henry Muller telling readers of Time's plans "to better serve the needs of busy, curious, intelligent readers." Muller explained that "Time's responsibility more than ever is to deliver understanding beyond the sound bites and headlines." What exactly did that vague statement portend? A couple of months later Time publicist Brian Brown conceded to MediaWatch the new format meant the magazine would be "more provocative" and "opinionated."
That's putting it mildly: A review by MediaWatch analysts found that over the past year magazine reporters and editors have aggressively promoted a liberal political agenda in its news pages. Here are some examples:
Campaign Politics. Time began its crusade just as the election season came to an end, when liberal political analyst Garry Wills (identified as a "noted historian") filed a seven-page review of the presidential campaign for Time's Nov. 21 issue. He dismissed the conservative ideology of some Republicans (The Rev. Pat Robertson was a "laughing stock" who "staggered from one kookiness to the next") but lauded the Rev. Jesse Jackson ("Economists called Jackson's economic policies the best and most complete program being offered by any candidate") Dukakis lost because "On the Pledge he did not angrily grab the flag back and say it belongs to all Americans... On the ACLU he did not get indignant that the honor of good people was being impugned." As a result, "Bush won by default, and by fouls. His 'mandate' is to ignore the threats to our economy, sustain the Reagan heritage of let's pretend, and serve as figurehead for what America has become, a frightened empire hiding its problems from itself."
Time especially savaged Bush Campaign Manager and Republican party chief Lee Atwater. In the March 20 edition, Time referred to how he "downplayed his role in devising the crypto-racist Willie Horton ads that helped Bush win the White House." In a box titled "Sorry Is Not Enough" accompanying a June 19 report on the so-called "Foley memo," National Political Correspondent Larry Barrett delivered a broadside: "Atwater's fouling the civic atmosphere with vicious misinformation is bad enough; compounding that with White House hypocrisy is too much. If Bush really wants to prove himself a political environmentalist in search of a kinder, gentler America, he should sack Atwater."
The Environment. Since the election, Time has repeatedly promoted liberal solutions to real or imagined environmental problems. In its "Planet of the Year" issues (Jan. 2), editors called for, among other things, raising the gasoline tax by 50 cents per gallon; by ratifying the Law of the Sea treaty; making the environmental problem the "No. 1 agenda item" at the Paris Economic Summit; and an immediate restoration of aid to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. In "The Two Alaskas," (Apr. 17) Associate Editor Michael Lemonick decided "the time has come to get tough about conservation." The first stop should be "an immediate increase in the federal gasoline tax...The second obvious step is to raise the auto industry's fuel economy requirements." In a follow-up report, ("Fishing for Leadership," May 22) Washington reporter Dick Thompson displayed impatience with Bush: "Several signals, include Bush's slow response to the Alaska oil spill and his refusal even to consider an increase in the gasoline tax, have raised concern that he is not the kind of forceful, decisive leader the country needs to deal with the growing environmental crisis."
On September 18, Lemonick suggested Americans could "go far" in assuaging the developing world by "atoning for their environmental sins." His recommendations: "Further stiffening of fuel-economy standards for new American cars, for example, would send a strong signal. So would an increase in federal gasoline taxes to bring U.S. fuel prices closer to those in Brazil and the rest of the world."
Taxes and Spending. Time's insistence on a gas tax increase was not an isolated recommendation, but reflected the magazine's across the board liberal ideas on spending and tax policy. Senior Writer Walter Shapiro dismissed Bush's budget proposal to Congress as "an incoherent philosophy that might be dubbed Reaganomics with a human face," clearly assuming Reaganomics was bad policy. "The borrow and spend policies that Ronald Reagan presided over have bequeathed to his chosen successor a downsized presidency devoid of the resources to address long neglected domestic problems. Bush's campaign strategists -- with the candidate's active complicity -- burdened the President with an obdurate stance on taxes," Shapiro complained in the February 20 story in which he also denigrated Bush's capital gains tax cut proposal as "another miracle grow elixir."
"If the President comes out strongly for the mission" to Mars, Time declared July 24, "Congress should be able to find a way to find a way to fund it. One option: to siphon the money from Star Wars and other questionable defense programs."
Foreign Policy. Time's pronouncements on foreign policy would make the Institute for Policy Studies proud. In a lengthy report on Central America ("No Winners, Only Losers," Nov. 21) Associate Editor Jill Smolowe bluntly rejected Reagan Administration policies in Nicaragua as "wishful thinking" wrought by "ideological zeal." Since "the Contras are never going to topple the Sandinistas," Time proposed a new strategy: "Rather than try to undo the Sandinista revolution, the new administration in Washington should acknowledge the legitimacy of the Managua regime and resume direct negotiations that address U.S. security concerns...The U.S. might spearhead and international consortium of aid that would be applied to social reform and economic growth." Nine months later, Smolowe reported: "The [Central American] Presidents negotiated the dissolution of the Nicaraguan Contras, a force that to many Central Americans symbolized U.S. arrogance and interference during the 1980's."
In Time's May 15 cover story on U.S./Soviet relations ("Do-Nothing Detente") George Church blasted Bush, who "finally thinks he has a policy toward Moscow -- hang tough and see what happens -- but U.S. allies fear he is missing a historic chance for not wanting to embrace Gorbachev's offers. Bush seems almost recklessly timid, unwilling to respond with the imagination and articulation the situation requires." The pictures for the article told it all. With the caption "Instruments of War and Peace," the first photo showed a U.S.-made Lance missile; the second showed balloons and flowers in Moscow's Red Square on May Day.
In an accompanying article, then-Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott announced Bush had "restored a degree of credibility and seriousness to the American conduct of arms control that has been missing for a decade." In contrast, Ronald Reagan and his "cadre of ideologues" promoted "obstinate policies," and spent their time "fantasizing about a perfect space-based defense." The accompanying picture for this article included full facial shots of Jimmy Carter and George Bush, with a partial shot of Reagan between them, being squeezed out of the bottom of the picture. The caption: "Restoring a degree of credibility."
A year ago Muller assured readers: "Time is above all a newsmagazine." It's hard to tell anymore.
NewsBites: CBS Stonewalls
CBS STONEWALLS. CBS has proven it doesn't have to live by its own rules. In an attention-grabbing September 27 front page story, New York Post charged that the network aired fake Afghan footage in 1985. Asked for comment, CBS News stonewalled all inquiries for an entire week, claiming it needed to locate freelance cameraman Mike Hoover, who was filming caves in New Zealand. Even when Hoover denied he staged scenes on October 4, CBS News President David Burke refused to take calls, releasing only an internal memo to network staff. What hypocrisy. CBS News would never tolerate stonewalling like this from a President or Congressman or corporate official.
WNBC-TV anchor and Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow co-host Chuck Scarborough summed it up best on CNN's Larry King Live September 29: "I can't for the life of me understand why CBS has a policy of not commenting on stories. And of all organizations, I think it shows a particular arrogance to assume that your organization is immune from criticism and you ought not respond. We're in the business of soliciting response."
SCHIEFFER SHAPES THE AGENDA. The Bush Administration's reluctance to rush into an arms agreement "perplexes some arms control experts," CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer worried on September 16. Which experts? The liberal ones. Former Ambassador Paul Warnke, Brookings Institution analyst Ed Hewett, and Jack Mendelssohn of the Arms Control Association. "Even some on the Republican right who were the most dubious about Soviet-American cooperation are now suggesting a new superpower summit to talk arms reduction," Schieffer reported.
Schieffer's only example from the Republican right was former Reagan official Ken Adelman. But a clip then showed Adelman saying something quite different than what Schieffer asserted. "It can be a getting-to-know-you summit," Adelman suggested. Being called an advocate of arms-control summitry is "absolutely wrong," he told MediaWatch. In fact, Adelman's recent book, The Great Universal Embrace: Arms Summitry, A Skeptic's Account, specifically says that summits, which thrust the President into being the chief arms negotiator, can be downright dangerous.
CATASTROPHIC CANADIAN. Last year Congress implemented a catastrophic health care plan paid for through a surtax on middle and high income senior citizens. In effect, the plan penalized those who prudently planned ahead and purchased their own long-term care insurance. But that's not how ABC anchor Peter Jennings saw it. He presumed everything one earns belongs to the government. After a September 18 "American Agenda" review of the subject, Jennings added his opinion, complaining to viewers that "because 5 million elderly people are angry, as many as 18 million others may suffer."
OUT TO LUNCH. A September 7 Los Angeles Times story on Vice President Quayle's views on SDI caused a small uproar. In a lunch with Times editors and reporters in Washington, Quayle said the concept of an "impenetrable shield that was going to be completely leakproof...in the semantics of let's say, political jargon, that that was acceptable. But it clearly was stretching the capability of a strategic defense system."
The front-page Times account, however, carried the headline "'Star Wars' Goal Cut, Quayle Says" with the sub-headline "Defense Role to Be Limited; Calls Reagan's Plan 'Political Jargon.'" The article began: "Conceding that former President Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' plan was only 'political jargon,'" Quayle said SDI had been revised into a program "without the pretense of being able to deflect a massive Soviet first strike." Times staff writer Norman Kempster also reported that "The Vice President was once a staunch supporter of the proposal, officially known as the Strategic Defense Initiative...But Quayle admitted Wednesday that the plan was never realistic."
Thus, Kempster inaccurately inferred that Quayle was no longer an SDI supporter, and manufactured Quayle "admissions" out of thin air. Using the term "never realistic" illustrates the laughing-at-the-Wright-Brothers approach SDI opponents apply to the program. While both the Reagan and Bush Administrations have honed in on a new "Brilliant Pebbles" defense, the shield concept remains, as White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater explained, "the theoretical concept under which the SDI program operates."
CBS & THE NATION'S EXPERT. "If the United States and the Soviet Union must compete, let us do so not in an arms race that threatens everyone and benefits no one but on a compassion race to improve the lives of our respective peoples and those less developed countries. Let us compete to demonstrate in deeds, rather than provocative ideological assertions, which is the more caring system, American democratic capitalism or the Soviet socialism with a human face of which Gorbachev speaks," wrote Princeton professor Stephen Cohen in one of his "Sovieticus" columns for The Nation on October, 1988.
On September 25, 1989, with rumors of a Soviet-American summit swirling around Washington, Evening News anchor Dan Rather turned to the CBS News "consultant on Soviet affairs," Stephen Cohen. Cohen had more glowing words for Gorbachev, claiming he's "made 75 to 80 percent of the major concessions to keep the [arms control] process going." Referring to Bush's proposal on chemical weaponry, Cohen complained "It'll help, but I don't think it's enough. For almost five years, Gorbachev has called for an American President who would be a partner in getting rid of these armaments." Maybe if CBS gleaned consultants from pages other than those of far-left magazines like The Nation, the network would be able to provide viewers with a more balanced assessment.
FAKE NAME, TO BOOT. For years William Boot, identified only as a "contributing editor," wrote the "Capital Letter" column and other stories for the Columbia Journalism Review. In a November/ December 1986 article Boot complained that President Reagan "plays fast and loose with the facts" as "the White House press conference has been converted by Ronald Reagan into a forum for inaccuracy, distortion, and falsehood." Boot saw the Iran/Contra affair as "a load, jarring echo of Watergate -- a case in which White House officials saw fit to break the law or bend the Constitution because, in their view, the end justified the means."
So what's the story here? William Boot is not really William Boot because there is no William Boot. The September/October issue revealed that's just the pen name for Christopher Hanson, then a State Department reporter for Reuters. Hanson has recently become the Washington correspondent for the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
FOOD FIGHT. The Washington Post recently proved it's even incapable of preventing its liberal bias from seeping into its special service sections. Take for example, an October 4 story in the Wednesday "Food" pages headlined "Who's Minding the Store? Everybody But Uncle Sam Seems to Be Setting Food Policy." The piece served as a telling demonstration of the company-town Big Government mindset that permeates the Post. "Someone is directing food safety and nutrition policy in this country, and it doesn't seem to be the federal government," concerned Post staff writer Carole Sugarman whined. "Increasingly, supermarkets, food companies, states and private organizations appear to be running the show," she worried.
Sugarman concluded: "As for the future of private intervention into federal policymaking, an FDA official who asked not to be identified said he believes it will get worse so long as the federal government doesn't play a more active role." The voluntary pursuit of consumer safeguards by private businesses intrudes on the federal government's duties? Consumer Reports, Underwriters Laboratory--call your office.
KHMER RUSE. Those who doubt that truth is a rare commodity in media coverage of Southeast Asia need only look at reports of the Vietnamese pullout from Cambodia. On September 24, ABC reporter Mark Litke summed up the Vietnamese puppet government as "popular and pragmatic."
Ignoring the fact that Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam, which remains among the most repressive Marxist dictatorships in the world, Litke declared that "though Cambodia is still desperately poor, a thriving free market economy here has breathed new life into this shattered land."
Dan Rather's September 25 assessment was even stranger. "Like the Soviet Union in Afghanistan," Rather stated, "communist Vietnam failed in its effort to set up a puppet regime in Cambodia." Rather should look more closely at who's ally in still in Kabul. CBS reporter Bob Simon's report was a little closer to the mark. "So glad you could come, so glad you have to go. Flowers and fond farewells today," Simon wistfully mused, "as the Vietnamese drove away from their dream of an Indochinese empire."
EARTH DEARTH. The alarmist tone of environmental reporting has reached a fever pitch as reporters increasingly buy into the bizarre theories of environmental extremists. On NBC's September 14 "Assignment Earth" segment, Tom Brokaw described Africa as "The Crowded Continent...a vast space filling up with people. Too many people." NBC forgot Asia which, excluding Russia, holds approximately 3 billion people to Africa's 600 million. Robin Lloyd saw Marxist Zimbabwe's contraception program as Africa's ideal model and declared: "For Africa, the battle to control population growth is a high-risk game with nothing less than the survival of the continent in the 21st century at stake." Lloyd didn't explore the possibility that some African nations are starving because the Marxists governing them have ruined their economies.
FREE SCOTT STANLEY. It should be the next rallying cry for free press supporters of any stripe. Scott Stanley, a former editor of Conservative Digest and now editor-in-chief of the American Press International wire service, was arrested October 3 upon his arrival at the airport in Windhoek, the capital of the southwest African nation of Namibia. Stanley was later released from custody and placed under house arrest. He will not be allowed to leave the country until he has been tried for "denigration" of election committee head Brian O'Linn.
Stanley traveled to Namibia to testify for two Namibian newspapers on trial for publishing an article of his. In the July article, Stanley had quoted O'Linn as saying he had been a long-time supporter of the dominant Marxist South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and that his "special relationship" with the "people's liberation" movement would continue. "Obviously, they are trying to make a point...that nobody better criticize the election commission," said Henry Mark Holzer, Stanley's American attorney. It will be interesting to see how many of those who regularly champion free speech come out against Namibian injustice and express their support for Stanley.
GIVING US THE LIBERAL BUSINESS. It's not just political reporters that bring liberal views to the job. MediaWatch recently came across a survey that confirmed business reporters are just as liberal. Just before the 1988 presidential primaries began, The Journalist and Financial Reporting newsletter surveyed 151 business reporters for over 30 publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer to Money, Fortune, Business Week, Inc. and Barron's.
The New York-based newsletter found 54 percent identified themselves as Democrats, barely 10 percent as Republicans. Over 76 percent reported they opposed school prayer and 75 percent were against aid to the Contras, but an overwhelming 86 percent favored the "right to an abortion." Asked who they wish to see become President, 27 percent named liberal New York Governor Mario Cuomo, trailed by Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ) with 20 percent and Senator Paul Simon (D-Ill) with nine percent. Senator Bob Dole was the most popular Republican, backed by just eight percent. At 44 percent, conservative Pat Robertson topped the list of those the reporters would "least like to see as President," followed by 19 percent who must be very upset now: they named George Bush.
About 52 percent evaluated President Reagan's performance as "poor" or "below average." Only 16.5 percent gave him an "excellent" or "good" and the remaining 19 percent considered him "average." No wonder they want the public to think Reaganomics failed.
Revolving Door: A Vance Degree in Journalism
A Vance Degree in Journalism. The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago has hired a new dean: Michael Janeway, a Special Assistant to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance during the Carter Administration. Janeway's been Executive Editor of Houghton Mifflin, the book publishing company, since he left the Boston Globe in 1986. Janeway was Editor of the Globe Magazine from 1978 until becoming Editor of the entire paper in 1985.
Good Night Boston. Paula Lyons, consumer affairs reporter since 1979 for Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV, began the same role with Good Morning America in mid-September. Between 1974 and 1978 Lyons worked in several jobs for the city of Boston, serving as Press Secretary to Democratic Mayor Kevin White, Assistant Director of the Office of Federal Relations. Lyons will contribute a story at least once a week for ABC's morning show.
Hart's Beats. Last year Virginia (Ginny)Terzano did political research for the CBS News election unit. Her qualifications: a member of Senator Gary Hart's staff since 1983, she served as Deputy Press Secretary for his presidential campaign until it self-destructed. Then Terzano put in a stint with Senator Al Gore's presidential effort. This summer she went back to openly promoting liberal politicians, becoming Press Secretary of the Democratic National Committee.
Kissinger On Board. At its monthly meeting in September, the CBS Inc. Board of Directors elected Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State for Presidents Nixon and Ford, to fill a newly created 15th seat. Kissinger isn't the only presidential advisor directing CBS policy. Harold Brown, Carter's Secretary of Defense, has been on the board since 1981.
Wilkins Off Board. Roger Wilkins, a Senior Fellow at the far-left Institute for Policy Studies and a Senior Adviser to Jesse Jackson's 1984 campaign, has been forced to relinquish his position on the Pulitzer Prize Board after serving the maximum limit of nine years. Wilkins was on the editorial boards of The New York Times and Washington Post in the 1970's. During the 1987-88 awards cycle, Wilkins served as Chairman of the Pulitzer Board.
Working Again. In February, ABC News closed the Washington News Information office, putting Joyce Kravitz, its Director and former Carter White house and Democratic Party press aide, out of a job. WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., put her to work again in August as Director of Public Relations.
Knight Move. Richard Capen Jr., a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and later Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for legislative affairs during President Nixon's first three years, is Knight-Ridder's new Vice Chairman for business information and cable television operations. Since 1983, Capen has been published of the Knight-Ridder owned Miami Herald.
Media Promote Liberal Anti-Tax Cut Position
Crying Over Capital Gains
Democratic leaders were not the only ones dismayed when the U.S. House passed a revenue spurring capital gains rate reduction similar to what President Bush promised voters. So were several major media figures.
A couple of weeks before the September 28 vote, on NBC's Meet the Press, Garrick Utley asked Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief Al Hunt if the Democrats' class warfare theme had any appeal. Hunt summarized the Democratic leadership's hope: "I think fairness is still a big, big issue. And if the Democrats can make the issue that the rich are getting theirs and you're not getting yours... I think it has some resonance out there." That evening on the Nightly News, the liberal rhetoric became Utley's: "The debate is not just about economics, it's about fairness."
During the September 25 CBS Evening News story, economics correspondent Ray Brady wondered: "So would this tax cut, as some charge, really add up to a free lunch for America's fat cats, pushing up the already huge federal budget deficit?" For the answer, Brady consulted Bob McIntyre of the notorious soak-the-rich lobby Citizens for Tax Justice. "A better solution, say many Democrats," Brady concluded after citing figures alleging the cut would benefit only the rich, "would be to raise rates for some high-bracket taxpayers, and then bring back the individual retirement account, the IRA where everybody gets a tax for saving money."
CBS anchor Dan Rather defined the issue on liberal terms the night it garnered House approval, using "for the wealthy" as a suffix for the capital gains cut three times: "Good evening. A political showdown vote in the U.S. House of Representatives today on economics. A vote to support President Bush's idea to cut the capital gains tax for the wealthy. Sixty-four Democrats bucked their own new House leaders, abandoned them, and joined the Republicans to support the measure. Mr. Bush says that cutting the capital gains tax for the wealthy will boost the economy and create jobs. Opponents don't believe that, and they call it simply a tax giveaway for the wealthy.
Time magazine was livid, headlining its October 9 "news story": "Bill Me Later: Once Again, Washington Chooses Voodoo Economics Over Responsibility." Senior Writer George J. Church bitterly complained that "once again," Washington had "lost itself in a politically irresistible orgy of tax reduction."
Newsweek's headline, "The Class Warfare Fizzles," reflected what really happened, but reporter Eleanor Clift couldn't resist a dig at conservative economics: "Budget director Richard Darman's dream of a far-reaching deal to solve the deficit crisis is becoming a nightmare as his President leads the charge in creating a tax break rather than confront a tax increase."
Update on Past Cooke Awards
BARRETT PROMOTED. The July Award went to Time magazine for its coverage of the RNC memo on House Speaker Tom Foley. An unbylined editorial box called RNC Chairman Lee Atwater a "muck maven" and demanded that President Bush "sack" Atwater in light of the incident. Initially, Barrett misled the RNC by claiming he had nothing to do with the coverage of the memo. Senior Editor Terry Zintl later admitted to MediaWatch that Barrett penned the editorial box. Barrett's career hasn't been hurt by his disingenuous behavior. In September, Barrett was promoted to Deputy Bureau Chief in Washington.
THERE HE GOES AGAIN. NBC reporter Fred Briggs, winner of June's Janet Cooke Award for his promotion of the Canadian national health system, took another shot at it on August 8. Briggs, who told MediaWatch he considered the Canadian system "very civilized," built the report around the "unthinkable" conversion of none other than Chrysler chief Lee Iacocca (never one to resist the government taking business expenses off his hands).
Briggs again recommended the Canadian health care system: "It keeps costs down and covers everyone. Two Harvard doctors say that system could be phased in here." Although Tom Brokaw insured viewers that Briggs would "look at the various options," Briggs explored only "universal health care" plans that "involve federal and state funds in one way or another," such as Ted Kennedy's mandated-benefits scheme. He mentioned no conservative or market-based alternative. To build the case for copying Canada, Briggs ended the report with some wild mathematics: "All sides agree that costs are out of hand, and getting worse. One sixth of the nation can't afford health care now. If its price continues to rise at twice the rate of inflation, only the rich may be able to pay for it by the end of the century."
One-Party PBS
The misguided moguls of public broadcasting continue to throw good money after bad political programming. The latest example is The Struggle for Democracy, a seven-part series narrated and produced by Canadian Patrick Watson. In the final episode that aired September 12, Watson contemplated the secret to successful democracies like... the one-party Marxist state of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe?
Yes, Watson found that "Compared with some African horror stories, Zimbabwe has to be a democratic success, despite the one-party state." During the hour-long broadcast, Watson called Zimbabwe an "independent legitimate nation," an "independent democracy," and an "independent multi-racial democracy."
This last appellation was the most humorous, especially since Watson mentioned that during taping of the series "the 20 seats reserved in the Assembly for whites were in the process of being eliminated." Watson didn't even blink when Didymus Mutasa, Speaker of Zimbabwe's Assembly, explained that "The idea of opposition doesn't really come into the thinking of the African," and those who disagree with the rules' edicts leave the country.
Another "democratic success" for Watson: New Zealand's refusal to allow America's nuclear battleships into port. "It's partly because of countries like New Zealand that Robert McNamara's "average citizen' has the confidence to oppose nuclear policies, Western or Soviet, that threaten us all," Watson proclaimed.
He further proved his inability to discern a difference between communist and democratic nations when he asked New Zealand's then-Prime Minister David Lange "What's the lesson for other countries trying to be independent in the face of superpower pressure? Jamaica? Nicaragua?
Conceding the Obvious
Wall Street Journal editor writer David Brooks culled some juicy admissions of media bias on environmental issues at a September 16 global warming conference at the Smithsonian Institution. In an October 5 Journal column, Brooks quoted Charles Alexander: "As the science editor at Time I would freely admit that on this issue we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy." The audience applauded. Of course, anyone who reads Time, with its "Planet of the Year" agenda and "Endangered Earth" bulletins, hardly needed the announcement.
NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Andrea Mitchell told the audience that "clearly the networks have made that decision now, where you'd have to call it advocacy." Mitchell could be referring to segments of ABC's "American Agenda" or NBC's own recent "Assignment Earth" series.
Janet Cooke Award: Homeless Hype: CBS, CNN, NBC
Staging news events has become a fact of political life in Washington. You see it every day as advocacy groups clamor to get media attention by calling press conferences. You see it in the halls of Congress from Senators and Congressmen. The President routinely stages events to get out his political message.
The media usually respond by covering the event, but question the positions articulated. The diversity of views that comes from this "devil's advocate mentality" may not be a bad thing for the domestic policy debate -- unless the mentality breaks down.
And break down it did when a contingent of Hollywood celebrities and radical political advocates came to Washington for the October 7 Housing Now! march to demand greater federal funding for homeless Americans. Many media outlets abandoned the established norms of reporting to trumpet a panorama of factual distortions and at times outright lies. Cases in point -- the October Janet Cooke Award recipients: CBS This Morning, CNN's PrimeNews, and NBC's Today. The three programs allowed the propaganda of Housing Now! to go unchallenged.
On CBS This Morning the day before the march, co-host Kathleen Sullivan interviewed singer Dionne Warwick and march organizer Carol Fennelley. She asked: "Dionne, what is the best way to take care of the homeless?" and "Carol I understand that the purpose of this march specifically is the decry the housing situation... Let's say from the beginning of the Reagan Administration in 1980, how was the housing situation different than it is today?"
Fennelley responded to Sullivan's softball question: "Well, over the last eight years, 75 to 80 percent, depending upon whose figures you use, of the housing budget has been decreased or cut. And when you take that much out of any budget, you are bound to see dramatic and devastating effects, which is what we are seeing right now. It's estimated that by the year 2003, if current housing trends continue, there will be 18.7 million homeless people in our country."
NBC Today co-host Jane Pauley repeated the same myth in an interview with organizers Mitch Snyder and Barry Zigas: "March organizers say it will take $25 billion dollars to build housing for the homeless and for the working poor, money they say was taken out of the housing budget during the Reagan Administration."
On CNN's October 7 PrimeNews, Candy Crowley cited yet another distortion homeless advocates tout as fact almost daily. Reporting on the day's march, Crowley concluded: "Spring-like temperatures on a Fall day made for a carnival-like atmosphere, but an occasional chilly breeze forewarned that winter is on the way and three million Americans have no place to call home."
Anchor David French, in an interview with Snyder, not only championed the activists' statistics, but also the spirit of the march: "The last President, Mr. Reagan, who I guess helped you get the shelter, your fabulous shelter here two blocks from the Capitol, he still said that in effect many homeless persons are that way by choice, that many of them are retarded or otherwise on the street for reasons like that." French sighed, "That's the attitude you've been fighting, isn't it?"
Snyder responded: "Those are the stereotypes and the images that bear no relationship to reality...of millions of human being living and dying on the streets... The reality is you've got to have a lot of money in America today to afford a decent place to live, and increasing numbers of Americans can't, and all of that's a consequence of $25 billion dollars a year just sliced out of the housing budget."
The networks denied access to any Administration or think tank officials to counter Snyder. Sullivan briefly referred to a Heritage Foundation report on the homeless situation, but it was quickly dismissed. It is not as if there is a shortage of experts or information countering Housing Now! claims. On October 5, columnist Warren Brookes corrected march participants' hysterical claim of three million homeless. He cited four major studies from the National Academy of Sciences, the Urban Institute, the General Accounting Office, and Harvard's Richard Freeman. No study, as late as 1988, put the number higher than 650,000.
Brookes also refuted the radical activists' allegations that Reagan had cut $25 billion from the housing budget. Brookes noted "Budget Authority" to build future housing was cut because of the massive commitment the U.S. made in the 1970's -- over $250 billion worth. Most of those units actually came on line in the 1980's. From 1982 through 1988, Brookes notes, an average of 19,000 units came on line. That compares to just average of 15,000 during the Carter Years. Brookes took a look at actual federal budget outlays. Since 1980, "Housing Assistance" has risen 172 percent, from just under $6 billion to over $15 billion a year. Actual HUD spending increased from $12.7 billion in 1980 to $20.4 billion in 1989, nearly double the inflation rate.
Heritage Foundation experts could have explained that and more. They might have also pointed to rent control and urban redevelopment projects that have actually cut the supply of low-income housing. The liberal Urban Institute (UI) cited other reasons for homelessness: drug addiction, alcoholism, mental illness, and serious criminal behavior. A UI study found that 71 percent of the homeless are afflicted with one or more of these problems.
The week before the march, the Media Research Center (MRC) sent out a letter to major press outlets urging "an equal forum" for conservative-minded alternatives to the increased federal spending demanded by Housing Now! The letter suggested the names of several housing experts to interview. While the letter was sent to 28 producers and executives (including 7 at CBS News, 5 at CNN, and 6 at NBC), just one producer, from Mutual Broadcasting's Jim Bohannon Show, contacted the MRC for help in finding a way to balance their presentation of the issue.
Bohannon provided one of the few balanced discussion by major media outlets. (Another: An October 16 U.S. News and World Report article which explained that the disintegration of the private, unsubsidized rental market: actually caused the housing crunch. Associate Editor David Whitman also pointed out: (1) federal housing expenditures have actually risen, and (2) drug abuse, mental illness, and alcoholism are major factors in homelessness that advocates refuse to talk about.) It seems most in the media did not mind helping legitimize a left-wing disinformation campaign by serving as a willing conduit for a staged news event.


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COLUMBUS: Animal owners who are suing over the state�s new regulations on dangerous wildlife say the Humane Society of the United States shouldn�t be permitted to join the state in defending the law.
Four owners filed a lawsuit in Columbus federal court on Nov. 2, contending the restrictions threaten their First Amendment and property rights.
The Humane Society asked a judge this week to allow the organization to intervene in the lawsuit.
The organization says it has a significant interest in defending the law that it strongly supported, as well as an interest in the lawsuit�s outcome since the organization is pushing similar laws nationwide.
The owners� attorney told a judge Friday that the organization�s interests are political, and the group failed to demonstrate how the state wouldn�t protect their interests.