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ATLANTA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - More than 80 percent of health departments in the United States that treat tuberculosis resistant to standard treatment have trouble obtaining the drugs they need to cure the disease, according to a national survey released on Thursday.
Difficulties obtaining the drugs could be attributed to nationwide shortages, shipping delays and a complicated process for procuring new drugs that are still being tested, according to a National Tuberculosis Controllers Association survey of health departments.
The final results of the 2010 survey were released on Thursday and cited by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which said possible solutions could include obtaining drugs from foreign manufacturers, stockpiling them, and creating an expedited approval process for new drugs.
"These shortages interfere with our ability to successfully treat TB," Kenneth Castro, director of the CDC's division of Tuberculosis Elimination, said in an interview on Thursday.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis accounts for about 1.5 percent of all cases i n the United States, Castro said.
The survey found that the shortages and other problems that hindered access to the second-line drugs could promote development of drug resistance, the CDC said.
In the survey of 26 health departments that treated tuberculosis patients who were resistant to conventional drugs, 81 percent reported having trouble during the previous five years finding or paying for medicine that would be effective.
Tuberculosis is caused by airborne bacteria. Most cases can be cured with a six-month combination of four drugs, but patients resistant to the standard drugs face up to 24 months of taking five to six drugs that are "less effective, more toxic, and more costly than first-line drugs," the CDC said.
The United States had about 10,528 cases of tuberculosis in 2011 and there were 529 deaths from tuberculosis in 2009, according to the latest full year CDC statistics available.
More than half of the health departments surveyed said difficulty finding adequate drugs for the multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, delayed treatment of their patients, the CDC said.
However, the CDC cautioned that because only 54 percent of the 61 health jurisdictions asked responded to the survey, the results might not accurately represent the national tuberculosis drug-shortage problem in general.
Of the 33 health departments that responded, 26 had multidrug-resistant cases of tuberculosis in the five years covered and 21 of those had difficulty obtaining the second-line drugs needed to treat the cases. (Reporting by David Beasley; Editing by David Bailey)


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Rudy Giuliani on Preventing Identity Theft
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani discusses ways to keep your identity safe during the holiday shopping season.
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Joint Task Force Bravo Treats 1,300 Patients in Peru
By Senior Airman Shaun Emery, USAF
Special to American Forces Press Service
PISCO, Peru, Aug. 21, 2007 - Members of Joint Task Force Bravo's medical disaster relief task force, deployed from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, continue to assist citizens here following a magnitude 8 earthquake that struck the region Aug. 15.
Over the past two days, medical team members have treated more than 1,300 patients with a wide variety of conditions. Most patients required medicines for gastro-intestinal illnesses, respiratory illnesses, minor wounds, and aches and pains.
In addition to basic medicines and medical care, members of the field team diagnosed a case of appendicitis in the field and quickly had the patient transported to a mobile surgical team stationed at the airport.
"When the patient arrived, she approached the front of the line with her mother," said Air Force Capt. William Ingram, an emergency medicine physician's assistant. "We listened to her story, and she had three days of worsening abdominal pain. We laid her down to do an evaluation and determined that she needed to be taken away immediately."
News of the American medical team's presence traveled quickly through the town and to other agencies providing assistance. When other agencies arrived to help, members of Joint Task Force Bravo's medical team were able to pack up and move to another location to provide more care.
"Once more agencies arrived, we realized we would be able to move locations and provide help to more people," said Air Force Master Sgt. Deborah Davis, the task force's noncommissioned officer in charge. "There are so many people in need. I'm glad we could offer our services to so many people."
As the mission wrapped up, many of the medical team members reflected on the time they spent in Peru.
"The fact that we executed within 20 hours of notification and were the first American contingent speaks volumes of our capability," said Air Force Maj. Paul Valdez, medical operations officer in charge. "It just goes to show that our military is capable of providing humanitarian assistance anytime anywhere in the world."
(Air Force Senior Airman Shaun Emery is assigned to Joint Task Force Bravo Public Affairs.)
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NEWS- Racketeering? Greene neighbors sue under RICO
The long-litigious Dogwood Valley subdivision has gone to the next level: three residents filed a civil RICO suit in federal court against the Dogwood Valley Citizens Association and five of its board members.
The three plaintiffs, subjects of an October 2005 Hook cover story, filed the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization civil suit in the U.S. District Court in Charlottesville April 7, and each is seeking $1 million.
"Enough is enough," says plaintiff Grant Colby, who claims the Dogwood Valley Citizens Association has ignored numerous court rulings, including a 2004 decision by the Virginia Supreme Court that found the association had no right to levy special assessments on properties and sell them at auction.
In Dogwood Valley v. Winkelman, two lots, each with a $35 judgment owing, were sold at auction in 1998. The Court voided the sale of the lots– one of which was purchased by former association president Gary Lowe. He ran unsuccessfully for the Greene County Board of Supervisors last fall and is named in the RICO suit.
Plaintiffs allege that the association continues to place liens on properties and file frivolous lawsuits against those who complain, typically non-suiting shortly before the trial date.
Mitch Miller paid his 2002 road dues assessment, but received a notice from the association saying he still owed $208, the lawsuit alleges. When Miller's brother attempted to pay the $208 for the second time, the suit says, Lowe would not accept Miller's payment from his brother, and a lien was placed on his property.
Lowe did not return phone calls from the Hook by press time.
Plaintiff Doug Dye says he's been trying since 1979 to get liens removed from his property. In 1984, the Greene County General District Court ruled the assessments and liens were illegal– yet in 1998, Dye found out his property was about to be sold at auction. According to the suit, he paid $875 under duress– and the liens still have not been removed.
"We're being subjected to extortionate litigation," says Dye, adding, "We are getting nowhere in the 16th Circuit." He describes the lawsuits, motions, and demurrers as "just like a video of a minuet on endless replay."
The Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was created to fight organized crime. Over the years, its provision for allowing civil cases with trebled damages has been used to fight abortion protesters, record producers, and baseball team executives.
This suit contends that the Dogwood Valley Citizens Association, its officers, and members of the board of directors constitute an enterprise with a "pattern of racketeering."
"This case is unique when you've got the highest appellate court in Virginia saying you can't do that, and they ignore it," says Maryland lawyer Joe D'Erasmo, who's representing the plaintiffs. "Maybe there's some rationale, but I'm mystified by what it may be."
Last year, the association's attorney, George Dygert, told the Hook he had filed "curative action" documents in the Greene County courthouse so the association could make special assessments for roads and commons.
The plaintiffs aren't convinced the "curative action" documents are valid.
"When you have a homeowners association just ignoring a court decision that says it can't collect assessments and not removing liens when those properties are all some of the owners have, that's serious stuff," says D'Erasmo.
Doug Dye had to pay higher interest rates when he refinanced his home last year because of the liens on his Dogwood Valley property that won't go away.
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In my opinion home owners associations are legalized criminals, and thank goodness Virginia says they are not valid.
How can the government let them file liens against others homes when they didn't buy the house?
No wonder KARMA is kicking them in the butt and foreclosures are running wild!


text: Women and Retirement Women must be ready to spend, on average, more years in retirement than men. Share | Have A Question About This Topic? Name Email Address Question Thank you! Oops! Related Contents Retirement Redefined Around the country, attitudes about retirement are shifting. Social Security: The $64,000 Question One of the most common questions people ask about Social Security is when they should start taking benefits. Retirement Plan Distributions There are a number of ways to withdraw money from a qualified retirement plan.


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As new Facebook rollouts continue for desktops -- as always, with some grumbling -- the social network is upgrading its mobile presence, as well.
Version 3.5 Now users can tag friends as well as places when posting via mobile, and makes link-sharing much easier.
Mac Stories also says sharing options have improved, privacy settings and web viewing are all upgraded, as well.
Bug fixes include chat, update speeds and "a number of Photo bugs."
And since Facebook is the most popular app in the App Store, it's kind of a big deal.The Next Web reports that FB had 102 million downloads a year ago -- and that figure surely has grown, now that the platform boasts 750,000,000 accounts.


text: February 6, 2014 at 11:50 AM Reader Roundtable: Seahawks' Super Bowl win and celebration Posted by Nikolaj Lasbo Fourth Avenue is jammed just south of Yesler Way as fans await the Super Bowl champions parade to CenturyLink Field. (ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES). I've received piles of letters and emails the past couple weeks leading up to, during and after the Seahawks Super Bowl win. Far more than for any other topic. The majority of responses I've sent on to sports editor Don Shelton because they addressed the team's performance on the field, which is better left to the Sports section. But there are a number of topics that the Opinion section has addressed, such as Richard Sherman's rant, the media's reaction and the Super Bowl parade and its costs. Below are several readers' responses to the issues that fall under the purview of Opinion: Thanks for remembering Storm championships Not to take anything away from the Seahawks' fantastic Super Bowl win, but I'm glad The Times' editorial board at least acknowledged the Seattle Storm ["Seahawks rule the NFL roost," Opinion, Feb. 5] I personally consider the Storm a major professional team, and the fact the team brought home championships in 2004 and 2010 puts them as the best of the WNBA in those two seasons. That is worthy of mention on any list of Seattle champions. There aren't many major professional team sports opportunities for women in the area, even with the recent addition of the Seattle Reign soccer team. More Comments | More in Reader Roundtable, Seattle Seahawks | Topics: Bill Lee, Demitri Anastassopoulos, Liz Strongman


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Double-fold bias tape is made from strips of fabric cut on the bias (a 45 degree angle providing stretch to the fabric strip), with the raw edges folded in towards the middle of the strip, and then folded over again, tucking the raw cut edges inside the fold. Double-fold quilt binding can be cut on the grain, cross-grain, or bias, but the strips are folded just once in half, with the cut raw edges aligned. Tutorials with great pictures on how to sew on bias tape and quilt binding can be found on my Pinterest page! https://www.pinterest.com/SoBiased/bias-tape-tutorials/
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Accelerate with ATS: Best Practices for IBM Storage with VMware
Abstract: This live webinar will cover the integration of XIV, IBM Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller with VMware ESX 5 and above. It will also include recommendations for optimizing performance and utilization with capabilities such as thin provisioning and vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI.)
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Name: Trivia Mafia at Junior's
Date: December 5, 2019
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM CST
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Trivia Mafia at Junior's
Every Thursday Night starting at 8pm
Junior's Restaurant & Tap House has partnered with Trivia Mafia, the largest and most popular bar trivia company in the Midwest. Trivia Mafia is FREE to play with prizes including Junior's Appetizers, Gift Cards and other prizes!
Trivia Mafia is old-school, team-based, pen-and-paper trivia. (None of this touchscreen nonsense.) We ask questions about everything under the sun (and, in certain astronomy-themed rounds, stuff beyond that). Pop culture, history, geography, science, even wordplay and puzzles. There are no rules. Well, actually, there is one rule. As we like to say: "Use your noodle. Not your Google."


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Grains finished lower with the largest drop in May wheat. May corn finished 7 cents lower at $6.30 ¾, May soybeans 9 ¾ cents, and May wheat down 19 ¾ cents.
Yesterday wheat gained heavily on corn, today they reversed those gains. December corn also finished lower and is now at the lowest settlement level since January 18th. Heavy "bear-spreading" occurred for corn, wheat, and soybeans suggesting a day of liquidation ahead of the report. We could also be seeing a lot of hedge pressure leading into Friday as the consensus remains that we will see a high corn acreage number.
Personally I think the market is setting itself up for disappointment on these reports. They are under the impression that either soybeans or corn will get the extra acres that are expected this year. We're of the opinion that we could see 172 million acres between corn and soybeans combined. This compares to the market which we are seeing a lot of 168-169 million acre guesses. Ultimately this could be a very bearish scenario for the market.
The other potentially "bearish" surprise could come from quarterly stocks. The last report in January ended up in a "limit down" move in corn as the stocks came in well above estimates. How many quarterly stocks reports in a row have we seen negative reactions for corn? Dates and correlated price movements for front month corn in the three most recent Quarterly Stocks Reports:
January 12th, 2012 - Down 40 cents (limit down)
September 30th, 2011 - Down 40 cents (limit down)
June 30th, 2011 - Down 69 cents (July contract in delivery at the time)
Lastly we have to keep in mind that these planting intentions are from March 1st. We have had a lot of price movement since which could still end up affecting acres in the end. But between the available acres we believe corn and beans will be the most likely crops to gain ground where possible. Ultimately we want to make sure as producers you have enough downside coverage in both of these markets. Please sign-up by clicking the link below to try EHedger's grain marketing software AMMO. Have a great week!
Chart – December Corn (Red – 50 day, Blue – 100 day, Grey – 200 day moving average)
Chart – November 2012 Soybeans Divided by December 2012 Corn
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You see, Verizon Wireless was offering free (free!) battery cover replacements on their website. The inventory sold out quick, surprise, but maybe they'll have more soon. Normally these little guys go for about $5 plus shipping.
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Liberty News
Arizona supporter funds largest-ever gift annuity to LU
Liberty University's growth is directly related to its financial supporters. But many of those, including the donor of the largest-ever gift annuity to the university — $3.8 million — have never even stepped foot on the campus. Many have witnessed the ministry blossom from a television set in their living room.
Like Gerald and Rose Marie Evans of Arizona, who have been faithful watchers of "The Old Time Gospel Hour."
"I've been listening to Jerry [Falwell Sr.] since he came on [television] in 1956 and I've supported him since then," Gerald Evans said.
Beginning in 2004, the couple funded three charitable gift annuities with the university, with the latest in December 2007, bringing their total to $3.8 million.
(A charitable gift annuity is when a donor transfers cash or securities in exchange for the charity's promise to pay a fixed annuity for life. According to their age, donors get a rate of return and it's the same for the rest of their life. Most LU donors receive electronic transfers on a monthly or quarterly basis.)
Gerald Evans retired from the printing industry where he printed labels for medicines and other products. After retirement, he said the Lord "had blessed us with more money than I could spend, then I wanted to put it to work for the prayer warriors." He said he first learned about gift annuities to the college from an ad in the National Liberty Journal (the predecessor to the Liberty Journal magazine, a promotional publication of the university).
He said he is proud of Liberty and what it stands for, even hoping his three grandchildren (now in middle school and high school) choose to attend there.
"He [the Lord] says we're to send our monies ahead, don't leave it here … that's part of our discipline, sending it on ahead for others to benefit from us," he said.
But Evans, who notes he is just a few months older than the late Dr. Jerry Falwell, said taking out the annuities makes good financial sense, too.
"If they look around and look at their investment and what it does tax-wise and what it will do for the university … it makes sense. Even my tax man has said he didn't understand why more people didn't do this," he said.
Tom Arnold, director of LU's Planned Giving Department, said charitable gift annuities are popular because "it's guaranteed income for the rest of one's life and it also offers immediate tax benefits. The older the annuitant, the greater the tax benefit."
Arnold said the average age of the annuitant with Liberty is 75. Based on current rates with the American Counsel on Gift Annuities, a 75-year-old with a $10,000 gift annuity would receive a 7.1 percent rate of return, meaning they would receive $177 every quarter for the rest of their lives.
LU Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. is excited when he hears about donors who share in his father's vision.
"It's encouraging to know that there are people out there, like Mr. Evans, who are impressed with Liberty, who want their grandchildren to come to Liberty and who will support us at that level," he said. "I mean, that's huge — $3.8 million."
Evans, who has recently encouraged another couple he knows to fund a gift annuity with Liberty, said it is exciting for him to be a part of the vision.
"It makes my heart palpitate when I see things happening like what's happening there [at LU] … and I know it [the money] is going to the right place."
For more information on Planned Giving to Liberty University, go to www.lugiving.com


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In This Issue
GOP Candidates: Far Right, Anti-Choice, Draft-Dodging, Abrasive, Ethically Challenged; NewsBites: Direct Mail Divergence; In the Media: Want More on Clinton Success; Reporters Describe GOP Plans to Increase Spending as "Huge Cuts"; CBS This Morning Hails Hillary; Truth About Consequences; Still Missing "Hate Radio" on the Left Pacifica Prattle; Janet Cooke Award: All Things Ill-Considered
GOP Candidates: Far Right, Anti-Choice, Draft-Dodging, Abrasive, Ethically Challenged
1991 Collaborators, 1995 Eviscerators
The day that Phil Gramm became the first to toss his hat into the ring for the 1996 GOP nomination, February 24, Richard Berke wrote in The New York Times: "The only time you are assured flattering news coverage is on the day you announce and on election night -- assuming you win."
To see if the first part of this adage applied to both Republicans and Democrats, MediaWatch analysts compared network coverage of announcements by GOP candidates this year, to the coverage received by Democrats when they announced in 1991. The study looked only at evening news announcement and profile stories on ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN World News, and in 1995, also CNN's Inside Politics.
There were 29 stories introducing the six major candidates (Clinton, Kerrey, Harkin, Tsongas, Wilder, and Brown) for the Democratic nod in 1991, and 40 stories on the eight current GOP candidates (Gramm, Alexander, Dole, Buchanan, Keyes, Lugar, Specter, and Dornan). Almost a third of the labels applied to Republicans were extreme labels such as "far right," while Democrats were never tagged as extreme; reporters were 20 times more likely to identify Republicans' position on abortion; lack of military service was never mentioned in 1991, but seven 1995 stories mentioned Republicans who hadn't served; and reporters were more than three times as likely to question public and private conduct of Republican candidates.
Ideological Labels. Of 58 labels found in this year's Republican coverage, 51 (88 percent) depicted the candidates and the party as either conservative or in terms even further to the right. Terms such as "far right" accounted for 18 tags, or almost a third of all labels.
On February 24, CBS reporter Linda Douglass alleged: "For years, critics have called Gramm an extremist." On March 30, CBS's Eric Engberg introduced Sen. Arlen Specter as a "pro-abortion rights moderate willing to fight what he calls the Republican ultraconservative fringe." ABC's Jim Wooten claimed Lamar Alexander has "moved far and fast from the center of his party to a conservatism that makes him almost indistinguishable from the others." On April 13, CNN's Gene Randall proclaimed Bob Dornan came "from political stage far right."
In 1991, 16 of 23 labels (70 percent) characterized the Democrats or their party as liberal. But eight of the liberal labels applied to Tom Harkin. CNN's Randall described Sen. Bob Kerrey as "a populist, liberal enough to challenge Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, Kerrey would also compete with Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton for his party's moderate center." Clinton drew no liberal labels: NBC's Lisa Myers characterized Clinton as being "driven less by ideology than by what works...Name a problem, Clinton probably has a solution." Wilder was twice called a "fiscal conservative." No one referred to Harkin or Jerry Brown as "far left" or even "left."
Abortion. Suggesting a pro-life position hurts the GOP, reporters this year identified Republicans' position on abortion more often than the uniformly pro-abortion Democrats in 1991 by a margin of 20 to 1. CNN's Jeanne Meserve explained the advantage of a pro-choice position with a CNN poll on Inside Politics March 30: "The latest CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll should encourage Specter....better than 6 of 10 said they would support a candidate who favors current abortion laws."
Military. Mentions of Republicans' military record outnumbered those of Democrats in 1991 by a margin of 16 to 6. Seven Republican profiles disclosed a lack of service; no reporters mentioned that any Democrats lacked military service, including Clinton's draft avoidance. Five of the six stories in '91 highlighted Kerrey's and Wilder's decorated war records. But ABC's Jim Wooten proclaimed on February 24: "Gramm has not been a paragon of consistency...He urged Texans to reject a Democratic candidate because he hadn't been in the military. Neither was Gramm."
Temperament. Reporters this year mentioned the temperament of the candidates more often than they did in 1991 by a margin of 11 to 3. While NBC's Andrea Mitchell did call Harkin "an angry man waging a campaign of class warfare," CNN's David French also touted him as "well known for his rousing stump speech-es." This year, the networks cast all 11 references to GOP candidates in a negative light. On the February 23 Inside Politics, Bruce Morton claimed that Gramm was "too abrasive, sometimes just plain mean." ABC's Jim Wooten warned on April 10 that Dole will "be closely watched for signs that he is still quick to bristle." CBS's Douglass said on April 13: "Dornan doesn't state his opinions, he spews them."
Public or Private Lives. Questions about the public or private conduct of Republicans surpassed those of Democrats by 7 to 2. CNN led the way with four references to the past conduct of GOP candidates, two of them full-length first-day expos's.
Brooks Jackson ended a lengthy piece on Gramm's vacation home and the S&L owner who helped him build it: "Gramm may now be the first Senator cleared by the Senate Ethics Committee twice on the same question." He then alleged: "This looks, looks, I stress looks, worse for Gramm than the original Whitewater allegations did for the President." Four days later, Jackson explored how Alexander became a millionaire: "Nothing illegal here....But the sheer size of his deals makes Hillary Clinton's commodities profits look like a widows and orphans fund."
Reporters scrutinized Specter for what Eric Engberg alleged on March 30: "He enraged many women during the Clarence Thomas confirmation fight by attacking Anita Hill."
In an April 12 profile Gene Randall disclosed that Dornan's entry "coincides with his 40th wedding anniversary. The irony: Sallie Dornan filed and then dropped four separate divorce actions against her husband between 1960 and 1976. She told the Los Angeles Times she lied about charges of physical abuse and that the real problem was her own addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs." The playing field had changed. When Clinton included in his 1991 announcement speech that his marriage "has not been perfect or free of difficulties," Randall wondered "Why did Clinton even say that much?"
NewsBites: Direct Mail Divergence
Since the Oklahoma City bombing, the media have kept close tabs on the National Rifle Association. Between April 25 and June 1, the evening news shows devoted 30 stories to some aspect of the NRA, 25 of which mentioned the now-famous fundraising letter referring to agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms as "jackbooted government thugs." Seven stories covered the group's May convention.
But when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a fundraising letter accusing Newt Gingrich of "promoting the policies of a terrorist" by favoring Drug Enforcement Agency cuts, the media yawned. ABC's Peter Jennings gave it a brief mention May 5, and the same night NBC's Tom Brokaw threw it in at the end of a story on talk show host G. Gordon Liddy. CNN mentioned it on the May 5 and 6 Inside Politics. But CBS Evening News and CNN World News ignored it, as did Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. The DCCC's May 23 fundraising dinner drew no reporters demanding that donors defend the hateful remark.
Reporters also ignored the leftist Quixote Center, which used the autobiography of a convicted cop-killer as a fundraising tool. Asserting that Mumia Abu-Jamal was "a victim of a racist and corrupt justice system," they invited donations for a free copy of his book, Live From Death Row. The only TV coverage came in an Anthony Mason piece on the May 19 CBS Evening News, which failed to mention the Quixote letter.
A Divided NRA?
Reporters at the NRA convention often went looking for an ideological shoot-out. Charles Osgood introduced a May 21 Sunday Morning cover story: "For the NRA, there seems also to be an enemy within." Reporter David Culhane claimed: "The gun group is meeting during a blaze of withering criticism from across the nation for its inflammatory fundraising rhetoric, attacking federal agents."
Culhane portrayed a group divided over the leadership's "uncompromising and fiery language," noting: "Now even some rank and file NRA members have recoiled in disgust at the extreme language of the national office." On the May 12 CBS Evening News, Jim Stewart asked about the NRA 's fundraising appeals and print ads with menacing federal agents dressed in black: "But when you use words like that and you print pictures like that, what's to distinguish you between the militia?" Although bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh had stopped paying NRA dues years ago, Stewart concluded: "Since then, in a letter to his congressman, he railed against gun control and affixed this sticker to the envelope: I am the NRA."
Washington Post reporter John Mintz painted a different picture on May 20: "The spirit of the 22,000 members who gathered here today for the group's annual convention could perhaps best be described by the hand-scrawled lettering on a sticker on one member's sports shirt: `NRA...Not Ready to Apologize`....Judging by the NRA activists interviewed at its gathering here...the NRA's leadership has read its members well."
Potter's Precedent.
ABC's Ned Potter worked himself into a lather May 11 over the environmental laws passed by the new Republican Congress. In a World News Tonight piece, Potter was aghast at the fact that lobbyists were helping craft the bill: "It's not just what's being done, it's how it's being done. Leading Democrats say they're being cut out of the process while business interests get to write some of the legislation that directly affects them. A key case is the Clean Water Act, rewritten by a House committee. Senior Democrats say behind their backs, Republicans sat down with lobbyists from oil, chemicals and agriculture to craft the bill...The new Congress is putting 25 years of environmental progress at risk."
Potter, upholding his usual commitment to balance, only cited liberal environmentalists, never interviewing conservative experts. He could have discovered, as the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Jonathan Tolman told MediaWatch: "Environmentalists have been writing legislation for the Democrat-controlled Congress since 1972 with the first Clean Water Act." Tolman pointed out that Potter's characterization of the bill was wrong. The legislation's "biggest loopholes are for municipalities. Industry spends $20 billion a year to comply with the Clean Water Act and will still have to pay $20 billion a year after this is passed....If you look at what the bill really does, big business doesn't get a whole lot out of the bill."
Lovable Moderates.
When does a liberal Republican become a conservative? When he's profiled by liberal reporters. In the May 1 issue, U.S. News & World Report's David Hage and Robert F. Black reflected on those in control of the Senate's fiscal committees: "Like Hatfield, Packwood is an Oregon maverick who represents his party's moderate wing on social issues such as civil rights. But on fiscal issues, Packwood is a conservative who made the 1994 honor roll of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group that advocates a balanced budget." But National Journal gave Packwood a 54 percent conservative rating on economic issues in 1992, lower than most Republicans.
A Los Angeles Times article five days later explained the good that moderates do. In a piece titled "Senate GOP Moderates Feel Pressure From the Right," staff writer Janet Hook asserted that in the Senate, "The money committees were not run by conservative zealots but by more moderate, old school Republicans -- Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico and Oregon Sens. Mark O. Hatfield and Bob Packwood. Certainly, the liberals thought, those three would ditch the most extreme conservative measures that careened through the House." Despite Domenici's record of supporting tax hikes like the 1990 budget deal, Hook observed: "The perception of Domenici as a political moderate is a measure of how far right the GOP has moved."
Flying Past Daschle.
Reporting on congressional hearings into the FAA letting planes fly with unapproved or counterfeit parts, CBS's Dan Rather warned May 24 of "possible airline disasters out there just waiting to happen." He could have started with Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. While each network devoted at least one story to the hearings, they have yet to cover allegations that Daschle influenced safety inspectors' treatment of a South Dakota friend's air carrier company that suffered a fatal crash. A May 7 New York Times story by Neil A. Lewis contained the most serious allegations yet, involving Daschle's wife Linda, second in command at the FAA.
Lewis wrote: "According to department investigators, at least two senior FAA officials have said Mrs. Daschle broke a promise to withdraw from cases involving her husband and instead played a prominent role in quashing a proposed FAA experiment that would have trained Forest Service flight inspectors in South Dakota to conduct inspections for the FAA." Mike Wallace's February 60 Minutes story remains the only TV story on the scandal.
Vive la France.
In early May, Today went to France where, between accidental shots of topless women on the beach, anchor Katie Couric marveled at French food, the beauty of the Mediterranean, and France's system of socialized day care. A taped segment on May 5 focused on one French school. Couric observed: "Ninety percent of France's three to five year olds attend government subsidized centers like this one." She recited the benefits while assuring her American audience, "The system works because the French make it work. Child care is a national priority and is neither debated nor questioned." Couric then interviewed an American living in Paris, whose daughter is a pupil in the French day care system. While conceding there are large classes and that it "costs taxpayers a lot of money to subsidize these schools," Couric ended her interview effusively praising the system: "Sounds like Americans could learn a lot from the way the French do things in terms of day care."
Abernethy's Buddy System.
Bob Abernethy, the officially retired NBC religion reporter, has been popping up to give his friends lots of exposure lately. In April, he did an admiring profile on aging pacifist and Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy. On May 20, Abernethy profiled left-wing activist Rev. Jim Wallis, who is on a cross-country campaign bashing religious conservatives.
Anchor Brian Williams introduced the piece: "The religious right is continuing a political offensive it started a few years ago but there is a growing number of religious people who find the conservative agenda offensive." Abernethy described Wallis' opposition. "His biggest problem with the Christian Coalition is its programs towards the poor. Wallis is a founder of Sojourners Religious Community which believes Christianity requires ministry to the poor. And when Christians identify with the rich and powerful?" Wallis replied, "I don't want to overstate this but I think that's a heresy." Abernethy didn't label that intolerant.
Abernethy wasn't big on disclosure: he never labeled Wallis a liberal, nor did he tell viewers that Wallis is editor of the far-left Sojourners magazine. Wallis was once quoted as saying he hoped "more Christians will view the world through Marxist eyes." The NBC reporter also failed to disclose that he endorsed Wallis' magazine in a direct mail fundraising letter in 1989. Abernethy, then NBC's Moscow Bureau Chief, wrote: "To find in one magazine both excellent reporting and commentary, and also a deep Christian commitment, is inspiring....Sojourners' ability to serve as a caring observer is a model for all of us."
Simon's Simple Lessons.
CBS News sent Bob Simon back to Vietnam for a series of reports highlighting the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the war. Simon reported the war as if America was the invader, and only one side fought. On the April 28 This Morning, he noted: "There are astonishingly few signs of the American war in Vietnam today. Everything seems back in place. The natural order has been reestablished after the convulsion we wrought." Instead of focusing on the convulsion wrought by the Vietnamese communists (the mass murder, the concentration camps), Simon admired the communist dictator. Remarking April 30 on watching the Vietnam War anniversary parade, Simon observed: "Ho Chi Minh, the man who did not want to be idolized, was not obeyed by his successors. The kindly old uncle was smiling over every part of the parade."
On the April 28 Evening News, Simon described the war as a waste of time, as if communists would have turned to capitalismif the West hadn't fought communist expansion: "We waged war to save Saigon from communism. We lost the war but Saigon has been saved. Just look at this place, that long march down the Ho Chi Minh trail has ended in the shopping mall. Saigon has moved from socialism to Sony, from VC to VCR. Everything we fought for, everything we lost 58,000 men for is being given to us now. Perhaps we have trouble accepting that, for its one final confirmation that the war never had to be fought at all."
The Cooke Books.
Belatedly, we mark a MediaWatch milestone reached in March: our 100th Janet Cooke Award. It began with a June 1986 critique of an NBC report on the Contras by NBC's Jamie Gangel and marked 100 with Time writer Elizabeth Gleick's tale of school lunch "cuts" in March. CBS was cited the most with 32 worst-story-of-the-month award winners, followed by NBC (25), ABC (19), PBS (9) and CNN (8). Time led the print media with 12, while Newsweek had 3. (Some months had multiple winners.) TBS and The Washington Post won twice, and one-time winners were The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the Discovery Channel, and A&E.
In the Media: Want More on Clinton Success
Media's Liberal Take
A poll released in late May discovered that among one group of Americans, seven times more think Whitewater has been over-covered as under-covered; 24 times more believe Clinton's achievements have received too little coverage as think they've garnered too much; while over 80 percent reject the charge that the press has been too negative in covering the new Congress. A poll of Democratic consultants? No, a March Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press survey of 248 national media outlet staffers.
Princeton Survey Research interviewed the most influential journalists: "28 were with respondents employed at the executive level including presidents, publishers, CEOs, vice presidents, and other high-level executives; 83 were at the executive producer or managing editor level; and 137 were at the correspondent or reporter level."
Two percent identified themselves as "very liberal," and another 20 percent as "liberal." Only four percent called themselves "conservative" and just one percent "very conservative." Overall, 64 percent answered "moderate."
The rising numbers of women and blacks may be pushing the media left. Adding another 267 members of local media, the poll found: "Women were twice as likely to say they were liberal than were men (31 percent vs. 15 percent), and blacks were much more liberal than whites (31 percent vs. 18 percent)."
Given this skew it's no surprise that just two percent believe the press has given "too much" coverage to Clinton Administration achievements. The rest split with 49 percent calling coverage "about right" and 48 percent saying there's been "too little." A post-1992 election poll of reporters by Times Mirror found reporters thought Iran-Contra was undercovered: 71 percent called coverage fair or poor, 24 percent thought it good. This year, while 55 percent think Whitewater's been covered "about right," 35 percent think it's been covered "too much" and just five percent say "too little."
Reporters think the new GOP Congress is getting it easy. Asked if coverage has been "too cynical, too negative and has nitpicked too much," 81 percent responded no. Just 19 percent agreed. They were asked: "Others charge that the press has not adequately covered the potential consequences of passage of many elements of the Contract with America. Do you think this is a valid criticism or not?" Half said no; 49 percent overall and 53 percent of broadcast network staffers said yes.
Media figures frequently deny their personal views have any impact upon their reporting, but Times Mirror found about half acknowledge the opposite. Overall, 47 percent agreed with the statement that "the personal values of people in the news often make it difficult for them to understand and cover such things as religion and family values." And 53 percent agreed that "the distinction between reporting and commentary has seriously eroded."
Don't count on ombudsmen to help. The Boston Globe's Mark Jurkowitz reported May 15 that a survey of the Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO) found that liberal bias is the most frequently lodged complaint. But, at ONO's convention he noted, "sassy liberal columnist Molly Ivins' Rush Limbaugh bashing remarks were much more warmly received by ONO members than Texas Republican Party Chairman Tom Pauken's suggestion that the industry actively recruit more conservative journalists."
Reporters Describe GOP Plans to Increase Spending as "Huge Cuts"
Mangling the Medicare Math
For twenty years, the Washington elites have discussed taxing and spending through the odd prism of baseline budgeting. For example, as Medicare grew 72 percent and Medicaid grew 132 percent from 1989 to 1993, reporters described efforts to stem projected increases as "cuts."
When House and Senate Republicans introduced their plans to balance the budget by 2002, Robert Pear reported in the May 10 New York Times: "Under current law, Medicare would grow about 10 percent a year. Under the assumptions of [Sen. Pete] Domenici's budget, it would grow 7 percent a year, from $178 billion this year to $283 billion in 2002.....and the growth in Medicaid spending would be halved, to five percent a year."
But many reporters still painted a frightening picture of "cuts." CNN reporter Bob Franken announced on May 9: "The House Republican budget bloodletting will infuriate lots of people. Besides the Medicare cuts, Medicaid, the government health plan for the poor, loses $184 billion." USA Today reporter William Welch wrote on May 10 that Domenici's budget would "Make huge cuts in Medicare and Medicaid."
Also on May 10, ABC's John Cochran reported: "Domenici said huge cuts in Medicaid will be offset by savings made if Washington turns the program over to the states." Connie Chung announced on CBS: "Senate Republicans on a key committee geared up to approve one version of a plan to balance the budget. House Republicans voted their version out of committee earlier today. Both call for deep cuts in Medicare and other programs."
Newsweek's Tom Rosenstiel claimed in the May 22 issue that Republicans "would slash funding for...medical care for the poor and elderly." Edwin Chen and Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times suggested: "Many members of Congress from both parties -- as well as some independent analysts -- acknowledge that the deep Medicare cuts sought by the GOP would increase costs in the private sector while reducing insurance coverage."
On The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, PBS reporter Kwame Holman claimed "In entitlement programs like Medicare, the proposed spending cuts total $270 billion. Medicaid...would be cut by $184 billion." Elizabeth Kolbert explained the political impact in the June 5 New York Times: an American Hospital Association poll found two-thirds backed the GOP when pollsters talked of a "balanced budget," but two-thirds supported Democrats when asked about "cuts in Medicare." That might explain some reporters' mangled mathematics.
CBS This Morning Hails Hillary
Countering Mr. Newt
Broadcasting the week of May 15-19 from David Letterman's Ed Sullivan theater, CBS This Morning gave Hillary Clinton the star treatment while repeatedly challenging House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
On Monday, Paula Zahn and Harry Smith spent an hour with Gingrich. Zahn declared about Medicare, "your plan for a seven year period is looking from anywhere to $250 billion to $300 billion in cuts." Gingrich explained: "We today spend $4,700 per senior citizen...At the end of the House Republican budget plan, we will spend $6,300 per senior citizen."
Zahn countered with Leon Panetta's claim that many will see their premiums rise. Later Smith added: "But your premium is going to cost you, it's going to cost you more money." Gingrich disagreed with Panetta's math, prompting Zahn to note that the AARP "says you're moving too fast, that this plan doesn't make sense." When Gingrich asserted the GOP has long been interested in health care, Smith shot back: "There were plenty of Republicans marching around a year or so ago saying there was no health care crisis."
During her hour on Friday, Hillary Clinton found more supportive hosts. Zahn and Smith granted plenty of time to talk about breast cancer research and the challenges of being a working parent. After Mrs. Clinton declared when Republicans want "to cut education to give the richest people in America a tax cut, we have our values upside down and backwards," the hosts failed to challenge her partisan charge.
Zahn seemed disappointed by Mrs. Clinton's post-health plan retrenchment, observing: "You've been touching on health issues, family issues, women's issues, and as you know, because you read newspapers, there are some Americans who are wondering where the `Lawyer Clinton' is, where the `Legislating Hillary' is?"
Giving her a chance to return to her favorite topic, Zahn set her up nicely: "Are you in favor of overhauling Medicare without doing it within a huge, huge, large framework?" Unlike with Gingrich, after Mrs. Clinton recited her liberal litany of how she's "very scared about overhauling Medicare without health care reform," neither host followed up on her lengthy answer.
Truth About Consequences
NBC Nightly News ran a series in the last week of May, "Red Tape," linking government rules and regulations with their real-life effects, demonstrating the unintended problems government intrusion causes.
On May 30, Roger O'Neil profiled a century-old family logging company with 200 workers that went out of business. Why? "Timber sales slowed down as regulatory red tape from the Forest Service increased. Studies for clean air, clean water, recreation, wildlife. Study this, study that. Twenty-four studies in all cut the log supply in half. Then in 1993 it was cut in half again. The Mexican spotted owl -- never seen in the Kaibab Forest but photographed 200 miles away...was put on the endangered species list. That forced four more studies." The next night, Robert Hager examined the Depression-era Davis-Bacon Act, which mandates that federal building contractors pay local union wages. Hager pointed out that "Davis-Bacon is blamed for a staggering $2 billion a year in extra construction costs. Of that, $100 million is spent just on extra paperwork."
Mike Jensen tackled the capricious rulings the IRS has made on independent contractors on June 1. The segment introduced viewers to the fight over who pays a free-lancer's taxes: business owners or the free-lancers themselves. Often the IRS engages in its own form of double-dipping. Jensen related how "the IRS has collected more than $750 million from company owners in the last seven years, even though many of the freelancers had paid their own taxes." A computer consultant linked it to real-life effects: "If you're thinking about expanding your business and getting people to work for you, you're scared away."
Educrats Exposed
Diane Sawyer began ABC's May 3 PrimeTime Live wondering about education being underfunded: "Is that really the problem?...Americans are now paying more than four times what we paid in the 1950s for education...On average, we pay as much per student per year in a public school as some private schools charge." Sawyer also noted the root problem: "Back in 1950, two-thirds of all the money budgeted for education was actually spent in the classroom, on instruction. But by 1992, less than one-half made it there, in part because the percentage of the budget for administration doubled."
ABC visited schools where bureaucracy reigned. In Los Angeles, Sawyer found principal Yvonne Chan, who ordered computers three years ago. "Chan told us that if she had gone to an outside company, she could have got a comparable system cheaper, and in only three months." Sawyer cited Texas Controller John Sharp, who found a district where administrators "cut out all the Saturday tutorials and cut the budgets of all the schools," but "had seven public relations officials on the payroll to take care of the district image." Rather than spend more,"Sharp found he could save over $100 million without touching the classroom...in just 17 districts out of more than 1,000 in Texas."
Still Missing "Hate Radio" on the Left
The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour invited six talk show hosts to discuss the Oklahoma City bombing on April 25, including Larry Bensky of Pacifica, the far-left network of five FM stations that receives around $1 million a year from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Bensky explained: "Talk radio is an entertainment medium. It is set up to be commercially successful on AM radio by getting the maximum number of listeners. It plays to the lowest common denominators, in many cases, of fear, of anxiety and anger. It doesn't spread information. It spreads paranoia."
Bensky was not asked to defend Los Angeles station KPFK's "Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend" of 1993, when Elijah Muhammed declared: "I would not say that the white man is a descendent of Satan, because that would be wrong. We didn't have a Satan before the white man. So the white man is Satan himself."
During Operation Desert Shield in 1990, Berkeley station KPFA invited on Craig Hulet, who explained: "George Bush is a threat...[He] has perpetrated the most heinous race war against [the] black [and] Hispanic community...since slavery...That's who's going to the prison camps...We've got a man in the White House that is more fascist, more racist, more dangerous than any man on the planet." KPFA then offered Hulet's tapes as a premium for donating to the station. But the media that harped on Limbaugh and Liddy have failed to notice.
Janet Cooke Award: All Things Ill-Considered
National journalists are rarely more fawning than when profiling other national journalists. Despite its reputation as the avenger of corruption, even 60 Minutes can go soft. For airing a one-sided tribute to and defense of National Public Radio, 60 Minutes earned the Janet Cooke Award.
Morley Safer's June 4 profile began: "There's a lot of talk about radio these days, not all of it about the haters and the screamers. Some of it is about that other radio, public radio, and despite its restraint, there are those that want to switch it off." Safer added: "In the brash and abusive world of contemporary radio, shock jocks, and hate merchants, NPR prides itself on its calm and reasoned voice."
Safer had already committed two mistakes: he made no distinction between privatizing public broadcasting and "switching off" the entire system; and he ignored those public radio programs which are not "calm and reasoned." Federally-funded Pacifica radio has aired two "Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekends," which devoted hours to racist and anti-Semitic propaganda by speakers like Louis Farrakhan, Leonard Jeffries, and Steve Cokely, who insists that Jews spread AIDS in the inner city.
Safer also didn't consider NPR commentators like Bebe Moore-Campbell, who called the NRA "the Negro Removal Association,"or Philip Martin, who proclaimed: "In the 1930s, Father Coughlin's anti-Semitism enjoyed enormous popularity because a vocal minority of people shared his views. The same is true today for devoted listeners of Rush Limbaugh and company."
CBS did allow a CNBC snippet from Newt Gingrich and four soundbites from Rep. Jay Dickey (R-Ark.), who argued NPR was elitist and liberal. Safer described Dickey's viewpoint as insisting that NPR is "not for real Americans." Safer then worked to disprove him, interviewing NPR's Scott Simon, Susan Stamberg, John Burnett, and NPR President Delano Lewis, who called conservative criticism "a direct attack on America's right to know."
Safer suggested: "NPR claims it's as wholesome and rural as Charlie Kuralt, that their 7 million listeners are not all politically correct left-leaning bean sprouts." CBS ignored a 1989 Gallup survey done for NPR that showed that Morning Edition listeners were "significantly more likely to describe themselves as liberal" than the average American or the average college-educated non-NPR listener. Thirty percent believed Morning Edition had a liberal slant, while only three percent thought it was conservative. "About equal percents of both self-reported liberals and conservatives think the program is liberal in nature," Gallup concluded.
As for "left-leaning," Charles Kuralt proclaimed in a special honoring his retirement: "It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?"
"Wholesome" may not describe an All Things Considered report three days before the 60 Minutes story. NPR's Joe Neel addressed the increased risk of AIDS transmission at new gay sex clubs. Neel quoted historian Allen Baraby, who frequents the clubs: "It's the adventure of meeting someone that you don't know and feeling this erotic charge and you know, exploring them and their bodies and having conversations, and having this kind of bond with someone that you never met before and never may meet again. There's this specialness about that kind of intimacy with a stranger." Two days after the CBS story, reporter Martha Guiled explored Kaiser Permanente's new classes for lesbian parents.
Safer continued his critique of conservative arguments: "When All Things Considered broadcast from Nashville a few weeks ago, it covered barbecue, country music, Bible publishing, and regional economics. It was classic public radio cuisine."
But when anchor Linda Wertheimer reported from Nashville March 10, she profiled TennCare, a state-enforced managed care system, noting the Democrats "saw to it that opponents would have no time to raise objections. Before the lobbyists could get their act together, TennCare was implemented in six weeks." NPR aired four soundbites of TennCare planners, two of a Blue Cross official, two uninsured people, and four doctors, one of whom thought TennCare did too little for the poor -- and no conservatives. Wertheimer ended: "If there are lessons to be learned about federal health care reform, the moral of TennCare might be, reform can be accomplished and it can cut costs. But if everyone has to feel good about reform, it can't happen."
CBS tried to disprove liberal elitism at NPR by showing non-political programs. Safer proclaimed: "This side of NPR is not exactly a Republican Congressman's idea of effete liberalism at work. Meet Alice McChesney, star of KCAW, Sitka, Alaska." Displaying an accordion-playing grandmother does not answer the argument that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting could make massive cuts and still fund rural stations.
Safer asked Susan Stamberg about their critics' motives: "The cuts are being made in the name of genuine economy, that everybody's got to cut. But is there really another agenda at work here....by those people who think that you do represent a monotone voice from the left, to kind of cut you down to size?" Stamberg typified liberal elitism: "Those people really need to have their hearing repaired and if they are happy listening to Rush Limbaugh all the time, well, that's too bad."
Safer stressed:"Over the years, NPR has grown into a major force in American journalism." The story finished with Scott Simon's declaration: "What makes us distinctive is reporting. We get out there, we see stories, we look them in the face. Now journalism as opposed to opinion-mongering is expensive, it's compromising, it can get you into trouble. But on the other hand, that's the great gift that we give the American listening public." CBS never mentioned reporting like Nina Totenberg's spreading of unproven charges of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas. Safer didn't ask: if NPR is so great, why can't it make it on its own, without federal funding?
Laurence Jarvik, Washington Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, sent many of the Center's NPR critiques to CBS producer Elizabeth Pearson, as did MediaWatch. When asked why they failed to explore all this evidence, Pearson said "I don't feel comfortable commenting on this," and suggested producer Steven Reiner, who did not return calls.
Jarvik told MediaWatch: "It was clear they wanted to make NPR look good. They didn't want to report on the sex discrimination suits against NPR, the complaints of reporter Phyllis Crockett about racism. And NPR is violating a law that requires them to be objective. Why did 60 Minutes throw that fight?"


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The USMC Girlfriends' Creed
I am a Marine Girlfriend. In other words, I have gone through the LDL class of Parris Island or San Diego basic training. I have attempted and
completed the Long-Distance Learning sector of Marine Corps boot camp,
graduating from Platoon GF, right along with my Devil Dog in his own
platoon. I am proud to have earned the title of United States Marine
Girlfriend. Along with my Leatherneck, I have suffered, been broke down,
and been rebuilt and designed as an entirely new person. I have unleashed a new patriotism to my country and my Corps. Yes, I belong to the Corps because I am committed to my Marine, and he is committed to the Corps. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The Corps is his life and I am his spirit. I have learned the hard way, as he has learned also. Wherever the USMC takes him, I will follow, whether it be in presence or in thought. I will learn as much as possible about the Corps, because this is my duty. And I am always on Active Duty. I will always remain true to the Marine Corps Girlfriend's Core Values, because just as my Marine is always presented under the image of the United States Marine Corps, so I am an example to all Marine girlfriends everywhere. I will always remain faithful: to my Marine, my sisterhood of Marine girlfriends, my Corps, and my country. And when my Marine is called for duty, so I will be also. I will support him at all times and at all costs, support my MC family, and will always remain loyal to the privilege of being the girlfriend of one of "The Few, The Proud." I am a USMC ambassador; for while my Marine retains peace and order in far away lands, I will keep watch over our home land, and always remain honorable, courageous, and committed. I am a United States Marine Girlfriend. Semper Fidelis.


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A team of amateur paranormal investigators struggles to make ends meet by debunking reports of supernatural incidents. With the group on the verge of bankruptcy, they take on a case involving rumors of suspicious disappearances and violent deaths linked with the abandoned Kyser schoolhouse. Discounting stories of satanic practices, the team proceeds, desperately chasing cash and the opportunity to fulfill their lives' mission – to catch a real ghost.
On a tour guided by the local sheriff, the crew learns of the schoolhouse's gruesome past, and despite the sheriff's advice to spend the night in a hotel, they decide to stay. They set up their gear and prepare for nightfall, and when the sun goes down, the truth comes out: the Kyser house might actually be haunted by sadistic spirits – or something even worse.
Saturday Morning Massacre is a bloody parody of mystery cartoons and the consequences of meddling with the supernatural.


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February 7, 2013
Physical Plant specialist is quick, efficient, courteous
At the first "First Wednesday" briefing held Feb. 6 in the Conference Center ballroom, more than 150 employees heard about Shelley Sills-Toale's outstanding performance in Physical Plant, and why she was given the February Staff Employee of the Month award.
In order to expand the monthly recognition ceremonies and open the event up to the entire campus, President Harrison has opted to hold them in the Conference Center once a month, and add a short update on campus activities, a question-and-answer period, and even a new award for professional part-time staff employees, which will begin at next month's First Wednesday meeting.
Sills-Toale was nominated for SEOM by Sabrina Ayers, who has been impressed with her work completing work orders for Ayer's department, Student Engagement and Leadership. "Shelley's professionalism, courtesy, attention to detail and efficiency are rare qualities to find continuously," says Ayers. "Every time I call on Shelley, she reminds me of the responsibility I have to continue striving to uphold excellence. She also reminds me how one person's kindness, patience, and assistance really does make the difference in another's day!"
"Shelley's professionalism is a regular reminder that performing well is simply what exceptional people do. And Shelley is definitely one of the world's exceptional individuals!"
First Wednesday briefings will continue to be live streamed on the web each month, and the event recorded for later viewing on the First Wednesdays website. Nominate a Staff Employee of the Month or Professional Part Time Employee of the Month! You will find the nomination forms on the First Wednesdays site, as well as on the Faculty & Staff page under "Recognition."
Have you heard? We're turning 50!
Most everyone would agree that reaching a 50th birthday is reason for celebration. And that's what we intend to do here at Columbus State. But reaching such a significant milestone also prompts looking forward. And we intend to do that as well!
The Columbus Technical Institute campus in 1968, as Phase 1 construction proceeds on Madison, Eibling and Rhodes Halls.
From modest beginnings in the basement of the former Central High School (now the site of COSI), where our first classes were held on September 30, 1963, Columbus State has grown into one of the largest colleges in Ohio.
Activities being planned throughout the 2013-14 academic year are intended to connect, and in some cases reconnect, many of the people who have contributed to our first half-century of accomplishments.
Retirees will be invited back to campus to get a current view of the college as well as insight into our plans for the future. We intend to open our doors to the community, giving them a unique glimpse into the great teaching occurring on campus. Our faculty, staff, and students will mark our birthday with a party on September 30. And we will conclude the celebratory year with a surprise event for the entire Columbus State family. And those are just some of the activities that are in the works.
"The Library team is looking forward to its role in this 50th anniversary celebration, "says Bruce Massis, Director of Libraries who heads the History Subcommittee. "During the anniversary year, the library will present an exhibition in our main gallery focusing on the historical significance of the college that may be viewed by any visitor to the building."
Kimberly Rhyan, director of Student Engagement and Leadership is heading up the Campus Engagement Subcommittee. "We are planning a Birthday Celebration that will engage students and the campus in a festive celebration for everyone to enjoy!" says Rhyan. "We are focusing on 50 with our '50 Acts of Kindness' campaign, and '50 Ways to Live your Life Well.'
"Celebrating our golden anniversary is exciting and memorable," says committee member Dean Bortz, associate professor in Construction Sciences. "I view this first half century as not so much what we have accomplished, but how we can build upon it and what is doable over the next fifty years, and beyond."
Watch future issues of UPdate for more details on a year brimming with pride in how far we have come and excitement for what is yet to come. And mark your calendar now for a year to remember!
The latest news on CCSSE
In the spring of 2010, Columbus State administered the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) for the first time, establishing a baseline of information in support of student success. This spring, we will have the opportunity to participate again in this national survey focusing on teaching, learning, and retention in community colleges. The project is part of the Center for Community College Student Engagement and the Community College Leadership Program at The University of Texas at Austin.
Research shows that the more actively engaged students are with college faculty and staff, with other students, and with the subject matter being learned, the more likely they are to persist in their studies and to achieve at higher levels.
Identifying what our students do in and out of the classroom, knowing their goals, and understanding their external responsibilities can help us create an environment that can enhance student learning, development, and retention. CCSSE will help us better understand these variables.
The survey will be administered in classes randomly selected (approximately 150 sections will be chosen out of 3,080 sections) by the Centerto ensure a representative sample and to preserve the integrity of the survey results. Instructors whose classes are selected for survey administration will receive specific information.
The survey is tentatively scheduled to be administered between March 25 and April 15, 2013, during a class time of the instructor's choice. Because the survey takes about 50 minutes, faculty may want to build this into their syllabus calendar. Survey proctors are also still needed. Contact Laurie Johns at ext. 5998 to volunteer.
In conjunction with the college's work on Achieving the Dream and our broader student success agenda, this survey may assist the college in improving course completion rates, as well as the rate of student persistence to the completion of their educational goals. The results of the 2010 survey are on the college's assessment website.
To learn more about CCSSE, visit www.ccsse.org or contact the Center for Community College Student Engagement at (512) 471-6807 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thank you in advance for your assistance in this important effort!
Human Resources Policy Forums are open to all faculty and staff
Dr. Harrison has announced that the college will hold open forums to review and discuss the next phase of updates planned for our personnel policies and procedures (Chapter 3 of the Policy & Procedure Manual). Chief of Staff Kim Hall will conduct the forum presentations on Tuesday, February 12, from 2:30 -3:30 p.m. and Thursday, February 14, from 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom (WD-435C).
If you cannot attend, but would like to watch the live stream broadcast online, visit http://www.livestream.com/ColumbusState. You will be prompted to enter a password to enter the site. The password is cougars. A chat feature will be enabled on the site to allow for questions at the end of the presentation. The live stream will be recorded for later viewing on the Human Resources website.
We strongly encourage you to attend one of the forums. This phase of updates is the second stage of a comprehensive policy audit that began last summer. The process reflects an ongoing commitment to legal compliance and alignment with best-practices in higher education.
You do not need to preregister to attend one of the forums. Everyone is welcome to attend, and each forum will conclude with a question-and-answer session.
Student Landscape Association to sell Valentine's Day flowers
Help the members of the Columbus State Landscape Association finance their upcoming trip to their national competition, and avoid the crowded florist this Valentine's Day! CSLA is taking orders for bouquets of roses or tulips (or both!) through Friday, February 8, and you will be able to pick up your order on Wednesday, February 13 or Thursday, February 14, just in time for Valentine's Day.
You can order a dozen roses in pink, red, white or yellow for $30; a half dozen for $15, or a single rose for $3. You can also order a bouquet of five tulips for only $5! Email your order to firstname.lastname@example.com, then pick up your order and pay for it Feb. 13 from noon – 6:00 p.m., or Feb. 14 from 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the Davidson Hall second floor lobby. CSLA members will also sell bouquets in the cafeteria during the day on February 14 if you miss the pre-ordering deadline and are desperate!
Valentine's Day is also "Destination Day!"
Advising Services and the Transfer Center have initiated a series of events for students called "Destination Days," and the first one is coming up fast on Thursday, February 14.
Destination Days will feature representatives from area colleges "bringing their college to our campus," with a wide array of transfer information ranging from student services and activities, to transfer degree specialists from their respective areas.
On February 14, The Ohio State University will bring reps from more than 20 departments of the university to share and promote their transfer options for Columbus State students who are interested in that "pathway." The event will be held from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in the Nestor Hall student lounges.
In order to build some excitement for the first event, employees who are alumni of Ohio State have been invited to stop by wearing their scarlet and grey!
The schedule for Destination Days continues through February and March on the Columbus and Delaware Campuses, and at select Regional Learning Centers.
Tuesday, February 19 - Transfer Day at the Dublin Center with OSU, Franklin University, Ohio University, Capital University, Ohio Dominican University, Otterbein University, and Ohio Wesleyan University.
Wednesday, February 20 - Transfer Day at the Westerville Regional Learning Center with OSU, Franklin University, Ohio University, Capital, Ohio Dominican, Otterbein, and Ohio Wesleyan University.
Tuesday, February 26 – Destination Day with Franklin University on the Columbus Campus
Thursday, February 28 – Destination Day with Ohio University on the Columbus Campus
Tuesday March 19 – Destination Day with Bowling Green University on the Columbus Campus
Thursday, March 21 - Transfer Day on the Columbus Campus with Ohio State, Franklin, Ohio University, Capital, Ohio Dominican, Otterbein, and Ohio Wesleyan
Monday – Thursday, March 25-28 - Delaware Campus Transfer Days with Franklin, Ohio Wesleyan, OSU, and Otterbein
Destination Days and Transfer Days are supported by Columbus State's U.S. Department of Education Title III Strengthening Institutions Grant.


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How Accurately Did Spielberg Capture Lincoln's Time?
I read somewhere, not long before my first book was published, that being a published author would ruin the experience of going to a bookstore. I scoffed, but I soon learned that it was all too true. A bookstore will have no copy of your precious baby. Or it will have one or two copies, buried so deep in the back that nobody will see them. Or the store has a few copies well-placed, but nobody seems to be paying any attention to your book, much less buying it.
I fear that being the author of a new biography on William Henry Seward, a book that deals with the first few months of 1865, similarly ruins the experience of Steven Spielberg's new movie on Abraham Lincoln, depicting the same months. As I sat in the theater, I found myself at every turn noting minor errors.


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Lincoln's public swimming pools will begin closing for the season Sunday, August 15. Pools scheduled to close at 6 p.m. that day are Arnold, University Place and Woods.
Ballard, Belmont, Eden, Highlands and Irving Pools will continue to be open from 1 to 8 p.m. Monday, August 16 and from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 17.
The regular season at Star City Shores also ends at 6 p.m. Sunday, but the pool will host one more public event that night – Dog Splash is set for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 per dog and will go on sale at 6 p.m. at the front gates. A limited number of tickets will be sold. Each dog may be accompanied by up to two adults and one child at least 8 years of age.
Dog Splash features an area for small dogs (measuring 15 inches from the shoulder or less) and retrieval activities in the lap lanes. When the dogs are not in the water, they must be on a leash. Plastic bags will be provided for clean up. Dog splash is sponsored by the Lincoln Parks Foundation and the Greater Lincoln Obedience Club.
The Parks and Recreation Department is asking public input through an online survey. The Public Pool use survey gathers information about current public pool usage and seeks ideas on future programming. The survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/publicpooluse.
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Starring: Sam Waterston, George Innes, A.C. Weary, Julian Glover and Caroline LangrisheSet in England in 1912, Q.E.D. was an adventure filled with scientific marvels which seemed far ahead of their time. Quentin E. Deverill was a brilliant American professor whose ability to construct incredible scientific gadgets was exceeded only by his analytical skills as an amateur sleuth. Each week, Deverill fought international villains like evil genius, Dr. Kilkiss, with the help of his chauffeur, Phipps, Jenny, his resourceful secretary and American reporter, Charlie.
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Jamie George: It's amazing to play alongside 'genius' Farrell
Jamie George views Owen Farrell as a rugby "genius" whose presence has grown with his promotion to the England captaincy.
While Jonny May brought Twickenham to its feet by grabbing a hat-trick of tries in Sunday's 44-8 victory over France, it was Farrell who orchestrated the downfall of feeble opponents.
The Saracens playmaker, assisted by half-back partner Ben Youngs, expertly exploited the acres of space available in the backfield through a variety of kicks as England registered their biggest win in the fixture since 1911.
In the injury-enforced absence of co-captain Dylan Hartley, Farrell has taken over as sole leader of the team and his Saracens team-mate George believes he is thriving as a result.
"The bloke's a genius. I never see him have a bad game and that's why he's one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in the world," George said.
"In my eyes, it's amazing to be playing with a fly-half and captain who is as dominant as he is and who leads from the front in the way that he does.
"Owen's been a captain and leader for a long time now. It's not a new thing for us but he does it really well and it brings the best out of him in terms of his game. He's performing really well."
May elevated his strike rate to 12 tries in as many Tests after breaching the fragile French whitewash three times inside the opening half hour.
Two of the scores were touch-downs of kicks made possible by his speed, but his remarkable pace was also evident in the second when he outfoxed wing Damian Penaud from a standing start.
When asked if May's form makes him unstoppable at the moment, George replied: "Can no one tell him that please! We need to keep his feet on the ground!
"We're really happy for him because he works incredibly hard. People think he's just this fast kid who happens to be good at rugby, but he puts a huge amount of time into his preparation.
"He probably does more than anyone else in the squad, so he deserves all the praise he gets."
England have dismantled Ireland and France on successive weekends in a majestic start to the Six Nations that has plotted a course to a showdown with Wales on February 23 that could emerge as a title decider.
Wales are also unbeaten and George, now the team's first-choice hooker ahead of Hartley following another superb afternoon, knows Eddie Jones' tournament favourites face a tough assignment in Cardiff.
"We have to be aware that we did well against France but recognise that it wasn't the perfect performance," George said.
"We really did a lot of analysis. We focused on ourselves a lot this week and tried to make sure we put our best performance out there."
"We still didn't do that so an exciting thing for us is there's still a lot to come. The important thing for us is to keep the ball rolling."News Now - Sport News


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On July 9, at 5 p.m., Idiaman and Sheila exchanged romantic wedding vows in the presence of their family and close friends. The bride and groom planned their wedding by e-mails while the groom was stationed in Afghanistan. The couple selected Embassy Hotel as their Southwest Florida venue for everyone to join them in their celebration of marriage, and for all guests to stay extra days to enjoy themselves in our area. Although the bride, groom, the wedding attendants, their family and guests lived in various parts of the United States, all arrived at the hotel to share Idiaman and Sheila's wedding experience.
The bride was escorted down the aisle by her father. The wedding party included Joseph Holmes, Mathew Brown, Derick Parks, Bryce Dudley, Tracey Carson, Mark Parks, Andi Johnson, Brenda Bates, Amelia Dudley, Amanda Vicente, Dominique Tanton, Marie Clancy and children Elijah Melvin, 11; Kai Hartson, 6; Kenan Bates, 5; Calla Vicente, 1; and Tyce Melvin, 1.
After the ceremony on the patio, the guests enjoyed refreshments in the lounge while the photographer took additional formal photos of the wedding party. Dinner and reception followed in the hotel's Heron Ball Room. The DJ made announcements and the microphone was passed among various guests who made personal heartfelt speeches to the couple. Because people traveled to the event from as far away as Hawaii, some family members were meeting either the bride's or groom's side of the family for the first time. It was a joyous evening and a very special day for the couple. The groom is still in the military and the couple will reside in North Carolina.
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Sheila and Idiaman Melvin
Lee Flowers, wedding planner and owner of A Amore Weddings in Cape Coral, worked long distance with the bride for a year in planning the details to have everything ready when the groom returned from Afghanistan in time for the wedding celebration. Pete Fournier, professional photographer and videographer, was also heavily involved in capturing special moments of the wedding day.
Family, friends, and the public can view this couple's additional wedding photos at www.amoreweddingsswfl.com select album, right click on this couple's first photo, then click on "Slideshow" in red at top of page to open slideshow to automatically display photos.