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In This Issue
A Day in the Media's Warming Crusade; NewsBites: Cuddly Killer; CNN Touts Paris Over D.C.; Chinese Intelligence Brags of "Thwarting" Thompson Hearings; Big Government Solutions; Where's Charlie Trie?; Huaung Scored Better Than Thompson; Janet Cooke Award: Washington Week in Revisionism
A Day in the Media's Warming Crusade
President Clinton must have found the coverage of his October 22 speech on global warming's dangers to be very heartwarming. With grim unanimity, the Big Three networks and CNN dutifully ran stories that conjured a chilling future of environmental degradation due to global warming. While each network took the most frightening premises of liberal environmental activists as truth, they gave more skeptical views the cold shoulder.
MediaWatch analyzed the six full stories on global warming that aired on the October 22 evening news shows and discovered a fourfold advantage (12-3) for soundbites from talking heads that supported Clinton's global warming hypothesis. Of the 12, five featured Clinton himself, and another four were spokesmen from left-wing environmental groups, two of whom claimed Clinton's plan did not go far enough.
All three opposing soundbites came from business sources, whose profit motives are easily questioned. Not a single skeptical scientist appeared, and while reporters relayed environmentalist claims about melting glaciers and rising sea levels as fact, they ignored alternative data on those claims, as well as polls which show that climatologists don't believe mankind has fueled warming.
ABC's World News Tonight. Anchor Peter Jennings introduced John Donvan's report with the most distorted view of scientific opinion, insisting that the "overwhelming majority of scientists" agree that global warming was caused by man. Donvan's soundbites tilted to the left 3-0, featuring Clinton, Les Brown of the left-wing Worldwatch Institute, and Clinton aide Gene Sperling.
Leading into ABC's next segment, Jennings put the blame on greedy Western ways: "To do something about global warming, we will have to come to grips with the fact that North Americans are increasingly driving the kinds of cars and trucks that do the most damage." Reporter Barry Serafin concluded his story by relaying how "environmentalists say along with technology there has to be some pain." For consumers, Serafin suggested, "fees imposed on the purchase of gas guzzlers. And for manufacturers, mandatory higher annual fuel economy standards to try to break the bigger-is-better vehicle habit." Serafin included comments from Clinton, an industry representative and an official from the leftist Natural Resources Defense Council. ABC's soundbites tilted 5-1 toward warming advocates over two stories.
CBS Evening News. Anchor Dan Rather cast the debate as a battle not between scientific formulations but between dueling agendas: "Reactions tonight from environmentalists and industry are equally heated over whether the real threat is catastrophic climate change or catastrophic change for the economy."
Reporter Scott Pelley then retraced Clinton's recent South American tour route. Standing on a mountain in Argentina, Pelley proclaimed, "It's up here, near the roof of Patagonia, that you can see some of the best evidence that the world is warming. The glacier on the peak behind me and all the other glaciers of the Andes have been shrinking...it is happening all around the world — the Earth's glaciers have been receding at an increasing pace over the last 100 years."
Pelley's two soundbites both came from the left: Clinton and Tom Karl of the National Climactic Data Center. Although Pelley did point out "some scientists believe the warming is natural, part of a centuries-old cycle," he quickly added, "it is clear that pollution at least hastens the trend. Fumes from this morning's rush hour will linger for 100 years."
NBC Nightly News. Anchor Tom Brokaw's summary left science behind: "President Clinton today joined that debate and managed not to satisfy the environmentalists or the industrialists." David Bloom put his wading boots on to deliver this warning from the deep waters of environmental hysteria: "The goal is to stop global warming, which some scientists predict could flood American cities such as Washington, D.C., and south Florida, if the oceans rise just three feet." Bloom's soundbites went 2-1 for global warming, with Clinton, a Sierra Club leader and a coal mine operator.
CNN's The World Today. Reporter Carl Rochelle opened: "With cars, trucks, and smokestacks belching greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at every increasing rates, President Clinton used the National Geographic Society as a forum to reveal his proposal to curb what some scientists say is a cause of global warming."
Although both Rochelle and Bloom declared "some" scientists believe in warming, neither cited what the majority of scientists thought. Rochelle quoted Michael Oppenheimer of the liberal Environmental Defense Fund: "If we don't act we're going to have record heat, record drought..."
Anchor Leon Harris subsequently noted European criticism that the proposal wasn't drastic enough and then, over satellite photos, presented "proof that pollution is gnawing away at the Earth's ozone layer is becoming even more pronounced." Next, Sharon Collins reported on businesses selling cleaner technology. In the two full stories, CNN soundbites favored global warming advocates by 3-1.
Reality Check. Nearly 100 climate scientists signed the Leipzig Declaration in 1996, expressing doubts about the forecasting accuracy of computer models. No network cited that fact nor a poll highlighted in a May 23 report from the National Center for Policy Analysis which sank Jennings' assertion of what the "overwhelming majority" of scientists think: "A Gallup poll found that only 17 percent of the members of the Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Society think that the warming of the 20th century has been a result of greenhouse gas emissions."
Networks also failed to consider arguments suggesting warming fears are misplaced: While David Bloom foresaw a D.C. underwater, the May 23 NCPA analysis noted sea levels have risen more than 300 feet over the last 18,000 years, a trend far predating mankind's Industrial Revolution (and industrial pollution).
While CBS's Scott Pelley relayed scary anecdotes about melting glaciers, Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project added context in a September 2 analysis: "Glaciers have been retreating for more than 10,000 years, a phenomenon generally regarded as a good thing."
Singer added, "There was a strong warming trend between 1850 and 1940, as the world recovered from the Little Ice Age. But there has been no significant global warming since 1940 and, according to weather satellite data, none at all in the last two decades." Singer's focus on long term temperatures would have provided a valuable point of view from a scientist with long work in the field of climatology.
NewsBites: Cuddly Killer
Cuddly Killer. Sure, we all know the public side to Jiang Zemin: he can force abortions on his population, torture Christians for their beliefs and crush democratic movements before lunch. But did we ever get to know his cuddly, sensitive side? During Jiang's recent trip to America, a few reporters got to know him better. On October 26, New York Times reporter Seth Faison insisted the Chinese despot's "penchant for unexpectedly displaying his artistic talents — Mr. Jiang also likes to play piano and recite poetry — points to an unpredictable, wacky side as well."
The next day, The Washington Post's Steven Mufson wrote in a profile: "He reads novels by Mark Twain as well as Leo Tolstoy. He plays Chinese folk tunes on a Chinese string instrument called an erhu and American show tunes on the piano. He sang 'Love Me Tender' with Phillipine President Fidel Ramos and warbles Chinese opera for guests. He likes American films of the late 1940s and early 1950s." On the Slate Web site, Scott Shuger put this journalistic practice of humanizing communist leaders in perspective: "Homework assignment: find a single front-page piece in the entire history of the [New York Times] emphasizing Hitler's fondness for animals and children."
The Raw Deal. The CBS Sunday interview show Face the Nation touts its "Real Deal" segment as a look behind the big story in Washington. But in recent weeks, the "Real Deal" has turned into a raw deal for congressional Republicans. Of the six segments run from September 1 to November 9, five took on Republican politicians or policies.
For example: on the October 26 show, host Gloria Borger called the GOP's IRS reform plan a fake: "Experts say that if the burden of proof shifts to the agency, it will be forced to require even more information from taxpayers. That's certain to make dealing with the IRS even more annoying. They predict it will result in a loss of revenue and create a whole new class of tax cheaters. The Real Deal here, Bob [Schieffer], is that the new fix may be a fake."
On November 2, Borger insisted Rep. Dan Burton's check as to whether the White House coffee tapes were altered was a boring waste of time, and "Senate Republicans even hired Paul Ginsburg, a well-respected technical expert, to dissect those videotapes. Ginsburg spent weeks comparing the raw footage of the coffees to the composite greatest-hits version handed over to the Congress. Committee sources say that Ginsburg will report next week there was no smoking gun or altered tape for that matter. And Ginsburg tells us that the tapes were like watching the cocktail hour at a wedding: not very illuminating, unless you're the bride or groom."
Will the NRA Fail? Network reporters played up the battle in Washington state over a ballot initiative cracking down on gun rights by demanding owners take courses and manufacturers include locks. On the October 16 NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw began: "Here in the state of Washington, the front lines have been drawn in the deadly battle over gun control. It started in the grass roots as anger exploded over the hundreds of children in this state killed or hurt by guns. It's now a full-blown political war."
ABC's World News Tonight promoted the Washington "war" on November 2. Anchor Carole Simpson announced: "As ABC's Judy Muller reports, the vote could have important repercussions for the National Rifle Association and the nation." Muller added: "More than 1 million of Washington's 5 million residents own a handgun. If this measure wins in this gun friendly state it could spell trouble for the NRA elsewhere."
When 71 percent of Washington voters rejected the measure, network producers anticipating an embarrassing loss to the NRA were caught with their guard down. What certainly would have been a lead story if the measure passed on an otherwise Republican day became an afterthought on the networks. On the November 5 Nightly News NBC's Gwen Ifill blamed the NRA's cash advantage for the defeat: "In Washington state the National Rifle Association spent $2 million to derail a measure that would have forced gunmakers to put safety trigger locks on guns for sale in the state and require new gun owners to take a safety test in order to get a license." The ABC morning and evening shows only offered brief sentences simply stating the measure failed.
Redneckville? When Republicans made a clean sweep of the November 4 elections the media portrayed it as a vote for the status quo. ABC's World News Tonight ran one full story, but instead of focusing on the anti-tax sentiment felt by the voters, ABC highlighted the one liberal result of the day. Anchor Peter Jennings declared: "And in Houston voters chose to keep in place an affirmative action program that steers city contracts to companies owned by women and minorities. The Houston decision seems to buck a trend developing in the country to reverse course on affirmative action."
ABC's Dean Reynolds opened with a pro-quota spin: "It has been the goal here in Houston to award about 20 percent of all city contracts to firms owned by women and minorities. The city says that number is only a goal, not a rigid quota. But opponents of the policy, spurred by the success of the anti-affirmative action campaign in California said the policy was biased and the time to end it had come." Reynolds noted how the initiative won: "But Houston Mayor Bob Lanier got the city council to re-phrase the language in the proposition making it clear that a yes vote would end the city's affirmative action program." He ended his report by disparaging the anti-discrimination view: "Mayor Lanier said the choice for Houston was clear: people here had to decide whether they wanted to be viewed as a cosmopolitan, diverse, international city or, as he put it, 'Redneckville.'"
No Licking Whitey's Boots! Thousands of black women converged on October 25 for a "Million Woman March," and the networks painted a harmonious picture. The next day on Good Morning America, ABC's Bill Redeker declared: "People power, that celebrated a common goal, unity and the desire to collectively make life in their community better, safer." On Today, NBC's Susan Campos declared: "Keynote speaker Winnie Mandela underscored the theme of the Million Woman March with a strongly worded call to power. She told the mostly black gathering in Philadelphia that women have a shared responsibility to save the world from those, she said, who want to destroy it. The rally was aimed at building political, economic, and social unity among black women."
While many at the "Million Woman March" were inspired by that ideal, the theme of unity wasn't advocated by everyone at the podium. As National Public Radio reporter Eric Westervelt pointed out in the November 17 New Republic, Ava Muhammed from the Nation of Islam "told the crowd that black women must not sleep with white men, lest they become 'traitors to the cause of liberation. We have thousands of long-tongued Uncle Toms lookin' for a boot to lick...and who'll sell our soul for a job and to have lunch with white people!'" Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) "warned of white plots to destroy blacks," such as the CIA importing crack into Los Angeles.
Winnie Mandela also didn't exactly embody the themes of peace and unity: in her own country of South Africa, she was convicted in the 1988 kidnapping of Soweto child activist Stompie Seipei and is under investigation for her involvement in his murder. With the exception of an oblique reference to controversial speakers Waters and Mandela by NBC's Jodi Applegate, the big three networks ignored any hint of controversy.
Clinton's "Correction." When the stock market took a sharp dive in October, the networks repeated the optimistic proclamations of the Clinton administration, a stark contrast with the commentary offered on "Black Monday" in 1987, which reporters declared was the natural culmination of Reagan's failed economic policies. As pointed out by James W. Michaels in the November 3 Forbes, back in 1987 this is how Time described the crash: "What crashed was more than just the market. It was the Reagan Illusion...he stayed a term too long...his dream of painless prosperity has been punctured." In the November 3, 1997 Time, the headline read "Catching the Asian Flu," and concluded: "Increasingly, when Asia sneezes, as it did last week in Hong Kong, America will catch cold."
The same difference in approaches plagued television news. In an October 20, 1987 commentary NBC's John Chancellor opined: "Everybody knew these chickens were coming home to roost...The party was nice while it lasted, but this was the week when the bill arrived." The next night, Chancellor continued his assault: "Ronald Reagan said a tax increase 'over my dead body' and that was popular with the voters. In 1984 Fritz Mondale said he'd raise taxes and carried only Minnesota and the District of Columbia. So, without enough money coming in, government had to borrow to pay its way...which raises an interesting question, which would have been better: a stock market disaster or a tax increase which might have prevented the disaster?"
In an October 22, 1987 report, CBS economics correspondent Ray Brady warned: "Wall Street's been talking about the optimistic statements issued by President Hoover during the 1929 stock crash and comparing them to President Reagan's upbeat messages this week." Reporter Bill Plante warned "some in financial circles are afraid that President Reagan will repeat his pledge of no new taxes tonight and further upset the markets."
What a difference a decade makes — on October 27, 1997, CBS anchor
Dan Rather proclaimed: "The market closed a half hour early after
prices plummeted. The Dow lost 554 points, the biggest one day
point drop ever closing at 7715. Over on the NASDAQ...the
index plunged 115 points...President Clinton is urging calm and
reason, saying the U.S. economy remains very strong."
North Korea's Decades of Bad Luck. Prime Time Live host Diane Sawyer traveled to North Korea to tape an emotional piece on children starving in that nation. But instead of blaming the communists' policies, in her October 8 story Sawyer blamed someone else: Mother Nature. Sawyer did, however, note the regime's restrictions on reporters and on free speech: "You dare not express opposition if you dare think it. Nor dare ask the question: Why do perhaps as many as five million North Koreans face malnutrition or starvation this winter?"
Sawyer continued: "There's the propaganda about the North Korean harvests, abundant with granaries overflowing, though Prime Time commissioned a study using satellite images and found huge areas of farmland damaged by flood and drought and overall productivity at rock bottom, a result of the country's failing agriculture system." But instead of seeing through the regime's propaganda she bought into it: blaming uncontrollable natural occurrences. Sawyer failed to connect the nation's "failing agriculture system" to the repressive policies of the isolated nation which refuses to let anyone leave.
Two weeks later, a producer read a history book before writing the intro for the October 23 Nightline. Anchor Chris Wallace began: "It is part of communism's tragic legacy that three of this century's worst famines all took place under communist regimes. Millions died in Stalin's Russia in the '30s. The worst famine ever, more than 30 million dead, came in Mao's China some 35 years ago. And now, in North Korea, it is happening again. The most telling indication of just how desperate the situation is may be that it has forced this proud and repressive regime to open up, to let some outsiders in so they can tell the rest of the world how much North Korea needs help."
CNN Touts Paris Over D.C.
Socialism Works
CNN's weekly magazine show Impact filed a three-part series between October 12 and 26 called "Tale of Two Cities." Reported by Kathy Slobogin and Jim Bitterman, it compared the quality of life in Paris to that of Washington, D.C. Predictably, Washington suffered in comparison, portrayed as a victim of the media's usual suspect: Not enough government spending.
The October 12 show compared social services in the two cities. From Washington, Slobogin blamed "bad management" and middle- class flight as the cause of the city's troubles. But in Paris, Bitterman noted approvingly "It all costs money, and some who've lived in both capitals believe there's a different attitude toward spending it here." He concluded: "Have Americans paid the price for that ambivalence [toward spending] in their capital city?"
The October 19 Impact focused on child care. Bernard Shaw introduced Bitterman's report: "It is often said that the true gauge of the health of any society is how well children are raised. If that's the case, there's an unhealthy gap between French and U.S. society...money and management go a long way in explaining the differences between the capitals."
From Paris, Bitterman praised French-style socialism where everything is "free." He gushed, "France takes a lot of things seriously, but probably none more so than child rearing...From even before birth, the free universal health care system constantly monitors a child's progress. A log book is maintained on the health and illnesses of each one of them; it is required for admission to schools and camps and youth organizations." Bitterman did note that the French pay more in taxes, "two-thirds more than Americans do."
Slobogin took the opposite tack, pointing out Washington spends more per capita on schools with some of the nation's worst results, while racking up "an astonishing record of mismanagement and waste."
On October 26 the focus was on crime and other social ills. In Washington, Slobogin again stressed bureaucratic corruption, but Bitterman's report implied money mattered most. After citing French support of gun control as a factor in the low crime rate, he continued: "As serious as their problems might appear to Parisians, they pale in comparison to Washington or other big cities. Mainly because of some fundamental structural differences." Michel Beaujour of the Institute of French Studies explained what Bitterman meant: "Here, practically everything is subsidized or paid for by the equivalent of the federal government."
Bitterman continued: "Not only does the national government stand by its capital city, but so too do its residents. Paris is not a city that has been abandoned by the middle class the way Washington has." Bitterman refused to cite possible reasons why Washington residents might have abandoned the city, such as high taxes and mammoth, inefficient bureaucracies.
Co-host Stephen Frazier summed up the series as if he hadn't watched Slobogin documenting Washington's financial waste, fingering lack of money as the culprit: "It is belief, our correspondents say, that will bring Washington's quality of life closer to Paris's. A belief that Washington should symbolize the nation, not just showcase its history. After belief, they say, the leadership and the money for improvement will follow."
Chinese Intelligence Brags of "Thwarting" Thompson Hearings
Media Also Have Boasting Rights
When Senator Fred Thompson folded his Governmental Affairs Committee hearings into the fundraising scandal on Halloween, the media coverage that night wasn't treated any differently than any other scandal development. ABC gave it only 19 seconds, and CBS 30 seconds.
NBC aired a two-minute piece, but reporter Lisa Myers concluded: "It didn't help that while Republicans railed about misdeeds of the Clinton administration, their leaders opposed anything outlawing the huge contributions that helped create the scandal. And few believe these hearings will really fix anything." Developments after that were mostly ignored:
• A strange twist in the Whitewater case arrived on November 6: Whitewater documents, including an uncashed check for more than $20,000 made out to Bill Clinton, were found in an abandoned, tornado-damaged car. Today gave it 17 seconds, NBC Nightly News got to it four days later. ABC and CBS never did.
• The next day, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee continued its hearings, with White House Deputy Counsel Cheryl Mills admitting she and former Counsel Jack Quinn decided to withhold (for a total of 15 months) a White House staffer's memo suggesting Clinton wanted the White House Office Data Base shared with the Democratic Party, an improper action. TV coverage? Zero.
• On November 13 and 14, that House committee investigated mysterious donor Johnny Chung, who gave $366,000 in suspicious donations to Democrats and made 51 visits to the White House. Despite Chung testifying in closed session, the hearings were ignored both days. ABC's World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News have yet to notice the House hearings since they began in early October.
• On November 14, Washington Post investigator Bob Woodward revealed another breakdown in the fundraising probe: "The FBI has acknowledged overlooking key intelligence information gathered as far back as 1991 that investigators believe shows further Chinese efforts to buy political influence in the United States."
A "senior official" told Woodward documents indicated that Democratic fundraiser Maria Hsia (organizer of the Buddhist temple event) was "doing the bidding" of Beijing as a Chinese agent. Woodward said the FBI found the Chinese equivalent of the CIA boasted it had "thwarted" the Thompson hearings.
CBS gave the story 29 seconds, but ABC and NBC did nothing, even though ABC's Forrest Sawyer kissed the hearings goodbye on October 31 by noting "Thompson conceded he had not proven his charge that the Chinese government tried to influence the American elections."
Big Government Solutions
Hillary's "Crisis"
On the night of the October 23 White House conference on the child care "crisis," the three major networks generated public anxiety and rallied support for big government solutions. On NBC, Tom Brokaw began: "It is one of the fundamental changes in America: working mothers, and their most fundamental need is inadequate, inconsistent, expensive and getting more so all the time. It is child care...We begin with the promise of better times. It came from the President and Mrs. Clinton today."
At CBS, Dan Rather declared: "We turn now to this country's most important investment and two stories that raise the question — who's watching America's children? The President and First Lady Hillary Clinton convened a conference today to address what they called 'the silent crisis' of American child care."
ABC's Peter Jennings worried: "Anybody in the country who has small children and has to go to work is faced with a common problem and it doesn't always matter whether you're rich or poor. What do you do about getting the kind of quality child care that you think your family deserves. Which is why the First Lady decided today, it was necessary to have a debate." That's funny: none of the networks included a single conservative counterpoint to the crusade.
All three networks recounted the plight of "victims" of inadequate government involvement in child care. ABC and NBC turned to possible models for change, both involving big government. On ABC, Michele Norris outlined the Clinton model as found in the United States military: "Each center must follow a long list of regulations that covers everything from surprise inspections to the size of each classroom."
NBC's Tom Brokaw turned to France: "So, how does the United States, the most prosperous nation in the world, stack up against other nations when it comes to child care. Tonight, the French way. Jean Slayman is an American computer expert, married to a Frenchman, living in Paris with her two children. Her French experience tonight, in her own words."
But what of the high taxes used to pay for the system? Slayman explained: "People here don't seem to be as upset about high taxes. For them, children are a priority."
Where's Charlie Trie?
The leader of the country implicated in funneling money into U.S. elections comes to America. Several figures in the fundraising scandal, including Charlie Trie, flee to China in order to evade subpoenas.
But other than one 15-second item on Good Morning America on how Clinton had asked China's Jiang Zemin about funneling money into the U.S., the morning and evening shows skipped the subject. Today's Matt Lauer interviewed National Security Adviser Sandy Berger on October 30, but didn't say a thing about fundraising. The night before, however, Ted Koppel did press Berger.
When Berger deflected Koppel's question about what Clinton asked Zemin, by saying the Chinese deny the allegations, Koppel pushed: "No, I understand that. My question was did the President raise it and how forcefully?" Berger claimed Zemin said "he would cooperate." Koppel interjected: "Including sending Charlie Trie back to the United States or anyone else who may be sitting over there with information?" That led to this exchange:
Berger: "I have no idea whether they have control or know where Charlie Trie is or not."
Koppel: "Oh, I'll bet you they could find him if they wanted to and I think you know that, too."
Berger: "No, I think this is an investigation being conducted by the Justice Department, being conducted by congressional committees, not the..."
Koppel: "I'm simply asking did the President or anyone in his behalf ask the Chinese would they send Charlie Trie back?"
Berger: "The President said will you cooperate with investigations and the Chinese said yes."
Koppel: "But is it your understanding that when that sort of broad question is raised that that includes within it, I mean would Chinese cooperation include returning to the United States people who are being sought here under subpoena for questioning by Congress?"
Berger: "Well, if that is something that is part of the investigation."
Koppel: "Well, I think it is. Don't you?"
Huaung Scored Better Than Thompson
Networks Helped Clinton
Not only were the Senate fundraising committee hearings buried by the deaths of Versace and Diana, but a new study from the Center for Media Public Affairs (CMPA) discovered that Democrats got much better press than Republicans. The CMPA story count matches previous MediaWatch studies which determined that network stories on Versace outnumbered ones on fundraising by six-to-one and pieces related to Diana outdistanced fundraising by seven-to-one.
CMPA looked just at the 35 days when hearings were held and found that on the broadcast network evening news shows in July "there were nearly twice as many stories on serial killer Andrew Cunanan (67) as there were on the hearings (37)." The second round "produced fewer than one fourth as many stories (19) as the death of Princess Diana (88)."
The President fared better than anyone else in the few stories which did air. CMPA "noted every positive and negative evaluation about all individuals involved in the controversy" whether from a reporter or in a soundbite in order to measure "each individual's success or failure in getting the media to carry his/her side of the story."
"No one was more successful in this endeavor than Bill Clinton," the September/October edition of the group's newsletter documented. "Just as we found in our 1994 report on the Whitewater controversy, the President fared better than either his political opponents or other members of his own administration in getting his side of the story out over the airwaves. Three out of every four evaluations of Mr. Clinton were favorable or supportive of his behavior, a far higher positive proportion than any other individual received."
In fact, Clinton collected the least negative press (at 25 percent) of all those measured. He rated far better than Fred Thompson who got 79 percent negative versus 21 percent positive press. Even John Huang did slightly better than Thompson: 69 percent negative to 31 percent positive. And Charlie Trie fared only a little worse than the Senator, as 17 percent of network assessments of the fugitive were positive. Al Gore went 50-50 and ex-Energy Secretary O'Leary garnered 36 percent positive press, 15 points better than Thompson.
As CMPA explained: "Democrats on the whole fared better than Republicans in defending their motives and behavior over the airwaves. Overall, members of the Clinton administration received nearly balanced coverage (46% positive to 54% negative)." In contrast, "evaluations of Republicans were 70 percent negative overall, and Republicans in Congress fared even worse — 74 percent negative."
Janet Cooke Award: Washington Week in Revisionism
PBS cut its teeth on the Nixon administration by running live coverage during the day and repeats at night of the Watergate hearings. It ran Iran-Contra hearings live from start to finish. But the network with the motto "If PBS won't do it, who will?" went AWOL on the fundraising hearings.
Instead, the Friday night PBS show Washington Week in Review recently took the unusual step of devoting parts of four shows to an analysis of campaign funding. But instead of focusing on illegal fundraising, host Ken Bode promoted campaign finance "reform" — private-money restrictions followed by government- funded elections. For diverting attention from Democratic wrongdoing to promoting liberal "reform" proposals, Washington Week in Review earned the Janet Cooke Award.
In his first taped segment on October 17, Bode began with a state-level reform model: "Kentucky — where America's favorite vices are big business, fine tobacco, bourbon whiskey, and politics lubricated with lots of hard, cold cash. There was so much loose money in the legislature that the FBI couldn't help but notice."
An FBI sting caught 18 legislators and lobbyists, including the Speaker of the state House. Bode turned to Joe Wright, until recently the Majority Leader of the state Senate, who said: "The politicians gonna have to get ahead of the curve on this issue. They know what the problem is. They're a part of the problem. It's gonna be because of the result of some great scandal, and the kind of which we seem to be on the edges of now — in both parties, for that matter."
Bode asked: "You seem to be saying overall that it's — the problem is not what's illegal. The problem is what's legal." Replied Wright: "Sure it is. Legal contributions to campaigns are the greater problem than anything that anyone has found that was illegal, as far as I'm concerned."
Wright pushed through a "reform" bill that qualified candidates for Governor for $1.2 million in taxpayer matching funds once they raised $600,000. Bode asked: "How about the fact that many voters have doubts about using public money for political campaigns?"
Wright replied: "What the public has to understand: Their tax dollars are already being spent on the politicians. People are spending large sums of their personal money to have access. They get the special tax breaks through the legislation that's passed. Their tax dollars are already being spent. It's just not itemized as it would be if we had campaign finance reform." Bode added: "And it's probably costing them more this way than it would the other way."
In the first test of the new system, the 1995 gubernatorial race, both major candidates accepted restrictions and government funding. Declared Bode: "At least by the numbers, it was a success. The cost of the gubernatorial campaign dropped from $24 million to $10 million. So there was a lot less money for television ads."
Bode did not explore why the reduction of TV ads is self- evidently good, although it's obvious TV ads can dilute the power of media outlets to define elections on their own terms.
In between interviews with three crusading reporters and Wright, Bode brought on U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, "the leading opponent of campaign finance reform," to declare Kentucky's law "an abysmal failure...As a result of not raising enough money, the Republican candidate was simply unable to do the kind of advertising that he needed to do to win the race. I'm sure the Democrats love the system."
Bode came out of the segment declaring: "In Kentucky, it wasn't the people who cared, it was the political class that got tired of the way politics was done in the state. They got ahead of the people and did it."
On October 24, Bode listed some of the Senate hearings' revelations, and then returned to criticizing Republicans for hypocrisy: "For all the headline-grabbing excesses of the Clinton-Gore campaign, the Republican Party won the soft-money race hands down. In fact, Republicans have raised and spent more soft money than the Democrats in every single presidential campaign, and they remain the most vocal opponents of campaign finance reform."
On October 31, Bode turned to another state model, Vermont: "Like native son Calvin Coolidge, Vermonters are unpretentious and thrifty. It just seemed wasteful to spend all that money to run for public office. So the new law requires that candidates for Governor accept strict limits on what they can raise and spend. To qualify for public funding, candidates can only accept contributions of $50 or less."
Again, after filling the segment with "reform" activists, Bode allowed one soundbite from one opponent from the Vermont Right to Life Committee. On the Washington Week Web site, Bode declared in "Bode's Notebook" that Vermont presented "a good start for a small state and an important starting point for dozens of other states."
On November 7, Bode returned to those hated TV ads, critiquing an ad conservatives ran against Montana Democratic House candidate Bill Yellowtail. Bode brought in liberal academic Kathleen Hall Jamieson to denounce it: "This is guerrilla warfare in a political context in which a group with no accountability, including no require to disclose [sic], can walk into a television station, put money down on the table, and if the television station is not vigilant, can air something which is unfair, untrue, get it on and off the air before the press even has time to find it or to scrutinize it."
He also screened a positive DNC ad that clearly promoted Clinton which noted "Republicans in Congress cut Medicare by $270 billion dollars," which was criticized for playing "fast and loose with the rules" — but not for its inaccuracy.
While Bode was busy promoting states he thought were models for liberal reforms, he did not report states with fewer "reforms." Virginia has virtually no contribution limits yet just held a scandal-free statewide vote. The Canadian province of British Columbia provides a preview of where Bode's rules might lead. As David Frum considered in the November 17 Weekly Standard, opponents of the socialist government were fined without trial for buying small ads denouncing the government's tactics. Can campaign "reform" lead to government policing of nonprofit groups in their attempts to persuade the public? PBS didn't ask.
The Washington Week Web site noted the special "reform" focus of the four shows was funded by the Ford Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Schumann Foundation, all liberal philanthropies heavily involved in the fight to drain private contributions from elections. If campaign funding unfairly influences politicians, how does liberal foundation funding affect public TV programs? That's another money question never asked on PBS.


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When Cardinal Hume died, it was generally observed, in obituaries and other assessments of his achievements, that he had "normalised" Catholicism, removed the lingering hostility towards the Church still felt at the beginning of his time in Westminster. The Queen spoke of him approvingly as "my cardinal". All seemed peaceful and unthreatening; we had finally settled in.
Some of us were not so sure; I, for one, felt that this "normalised" Catholicism had become acceptable because we were now thought to be harmless. I was not sure that this was such a good thing. It would be healthy, I thought, to have to face a little opposition: at least it would mean that we were taken seriously.
One should always, the old saw goes, be careful what one wishes for; for one's wish might be granted. What we were experiencing was the lull before the storm. The present wave of hostility directed towards the Pope and the Church may be utterly unreasonable; but its basis is a rejection of everything we stand for: and it is a rejection from which our culture had never really withdrawn.
It may all be unpleasant, even distressing; but difficult though it may be to realise it now, this present hostility is to be welcomed: it means that we are beginning once more to count for something.
The atheists' utter loathing, all the same, is at times a little frightening in its sheer vicious irrationality. These people are in the grip of a barely restrained hysteria. Take the current issue of the New Humanist, subtitle: "Ideas for godless people"; this issue gives a good idea of what it must be like being godless, and at least it makes you grateful not to be godless yourself. "If you were invited to address Benedict XVI during his UK visit," the New Humanist introduces its special issue, "what would you say to him? Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman, Claire Rayner, Ben Goldacre and many more take part in our Pope quiz."
Claire Rayner's offering gives a good idea of the tone and the rational level at which these contributions are conducted: "I have no language with which to adequately describe Joseph Alois Ratzinger, AKA the Pope. In all my years as a campaigner I have never felt such animus against any individual as I do against this creature. His views are so disgusting, so repellent and so hugely damaging to the rest of us, that the only thing to do is to get rid of him." (What that means is not explained).
This is all horrible for anyone who regards Pope Benedict with the admiration and love most Catholics feel for him; and I find myself almost wishing that the decision had been taken to beatify Cardinal Newman in St Peter's Square and not a muddy field, and for the Pope to be spared this dreadful business of a state visit.
But things are as they should be. As I remarked in my last post, nobody said that being a Catholic was easy. And when the Church is being faithful to her mission, this is how the world will regard her. Oh, and this has nothing whatever to do with child abuse; our enemies know that the evidence is that we are no worse than representative of society as a whole (shameful enough though that is) – see my previous post.
When things get rough, as they will, first say a quick prayer for the Holy Father, then say to yourself the magic words "Luke 6: 22"; or, if you have time, the whole verse: "Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." You might add (verse 26): "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! For so did their fathers to the false prophets."
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Mr. Vince Burlapp and his The Hollywood Extra Car Page brings us another mystery. This time it is a completely random image of what looks to be a Mazda6/Atenza coupe sketch. Burlapp claims this is a sketch from Mazda, so we'll go with that for now. It would make sense to us to bring a Mazda6 coupe to the world as all the competition seems to be doing it and Mazda has had an unfortunate excess of doors recently. Here are some pictures of the Mazdaspeed Atenza Concept, which seem to share similar touches.
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The FX network is delaying the return of its hit comedy "Louie" from summer 2013 to spring 2014.
The network announced Tuesday it had granted the request by the series' Emmy-winning star, Louis C.K., for what he labeled "a little breathing room."
According to the Hollywood Reporter, during a conference call with reporters FX president and general manager John Landgraf revealed the new timetable and spoke of the comic's ceaseless work schedule. "Louie has continued to raise the bar and recharge his batteries. I don't think there's anyone else in business who's produced, starred, directed and edited all but seven episodes," Landgraf said. "I'm not surprised he needs a bit of a break."
Along with performing in the show, the multi-hyphenate serves as creator, producer, writer and editor.
"The last three seasons have been this surge of fun and work and stories, and it's been great to share all this stuff, and I want to keep going," Louis C. K. said during the teleconference. "I want the show to keep getting better. That's my goal, and I don't want it to be making the doughnuts. I want it to keep being something that comes from somewhere fun and important, and I want it to stay funny. It's a luxury that I asked for, which is more time to create Season 4."
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Sick father finally gets to see his daughter wed her wife
WHO says you can't organise a wedding in a month.
Pamela Molloy and Billieann Bambrick have been waiting 25 years for this day.
Today, at 11am, Pamela, 58, and Billieann, 49, will be wed at Headricks Lane in Rockhampton.
It is understood the event will be the first same-sex wedding for Rockhampton, and possibly Central Queensland.
"We didn't plan it that way but we're honoured to have that title," Pamela said yesterday as the couple ran through the rehearsal.
The law for same sex marriage passed on December 8 in the Australian Federal Parliament after 61.6% of Australians voted yes in a national postal vote.
Capricornia was among the 133 electorates who supported the move with 54% of people voting "yes".
Pamela and Billieann never thought the day would come that the law would be passed.
"It was kind of surreal, we weren't convinced it had gone through," Pamela said.
"We'd been through it before in Canberra when it was passed for five days some years ago," Billieann said.
They thought buying a house would be as legally close as they could get.
"Buying a house is a legal contract between both of us and it was the closest we could legally be binded together," Pamela said.
A Notice of Intended Marriage must be lodged with the celebrant or minister 30 days beforehand; making January 9 the first date a same sex wedding could happen.
Pamela and Billieann lodged their intention quickly, allowing for them to get married today, on January 13.
"Who says you can't plan a wedding in a month," Pamela said.
"We haven't had any problem with anyone not wanting to cater for a same-sex wedding."
The couple will be surrounded by 60 friends and family.
"We're not young, we're not doing the white dresses, what we want is just public acknowledgement with our friends and family," Billieann said.
"It's only a simple wedding, it's come together quite easily.
While the couple were excited to get married, the rush was for another reason. So Billieann's father, Noel Bambrick, could see his daughter marry the love of her life.
The couple came up from Canberra, where they now live, to get married as Noel couldn't travel.
"Billieann's Dad has cancer, he is quite ill and we don't know how much time he has left," Pamela said.
"Mum and Dad are very keen to see us get married," Billieann said.
But being back in Rockhampton to get married is a sombre feeling for the couple.
Billieann grew up in Rockhampton while Pamela grew up in Mackay and the couple met in Rockhampton when they were both teaching at a catholic school more than two decades ago.
Their relationship created a scandal at the time and they felt they could no longer stay in Rockhampton.
"It's easy to be gay in the ACT, it wasn't easy to be gay in Queensland at the time when we moved," Pamela said.


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On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the year 1918, hostilities ended between Allied troops and Germany. At the time, Nov. 11 became known as Armistice Day signifying the end of the "war to end all wars."
Of course, history didn't play out that way. In fact, it was the children of the brave World War I veterans who were thrust into the largest mobilization of U.S. forces ever during World War II.
Some of that generation and the next saw war-time duty in southeast Asia. For their children, the primary area of attention was the Middle East. Today, we still have troops in Afghanistan -- but keep our eyes focused on many regions. Real and perceived threats exist in Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Far East, the Middle East and Africa.
In short, there has been no shortage of those willing to threaten these United States of America. Throughout it all, there also has been no shortage of our own men and women willing to take up arms in the defense of our great nation.
So many have died or been wounded that Armistice Day has transformed to Veterans Day in order to have a holiday large enough to accommodate generations of those who have served.
It is fitting to recognize military members past and present throughout the year. But like so many other aspects of life we tend to take for granted, we require a designated date to bring the memories to the forefront. So be it. Monday is when Veterans Day lands this year.
Military men and women take up the cause for a much larger purpose than a parade or a salute once a year. They do it for love of country. There is no other way to rationalize a willingness to endure the ultimate sacrifice.
Veterans Day should be observed primarily by those who have never donned a uniform. Thanks and gratitude should be offered to the armed services members -- dead and alive -- whose contributions allow all of us to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on a daily basis.
In the spirit of the original Armistice Day, it also should be a time for all citizens to help perpetuate peace throughout the world through good will and an understanding of others.
We salute every past, present and future member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard and their respective National Guard and Reserve components. America's freedoms have been paid for repeatedly by your courageous acts.
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With the SoCal Disc Golf Series winding down to a close, several division races are still very close coming down to the wire, and these last few events may be the deciders. Two SoCal events are on tap for October: the Green Valley Open, being held at Yucaipa Regional Park on October 6&7; and the Long Beach Open, held at El Dorado Park on October 20&21. Both events still have spots open and have online registration available through DiscGolfU.com. Click on the tournament names above to go to the registration site. Eric Audet's Oak Valley boys always deliver a fun event, but probably without the Sunday morning round in the snow at the Am tournament held this Spring. Reasonably-priced camping, available at the park, makes this a great event for the budget-conscious player. The Long Beach Open, presented by Jeff Spohr's West Coast Disc Golf, will feature separate Am and Pro days, which allows more players into the event. WDGC has reportedly put together a great player pack for Ams, and solid payout for top finishers on both days.
With just one month to go before the SoCal Championships, here's how the points series races are shaping up:
MPO: Steve Rico currently leads Philo Braithwaite by one point, 219 to 218, with Max Nichols in third (205). This race is so close it will definitely come down to the wire. Max still has a chance to catch up, especially since the SoCal Championships will be held on one course he helped design (Brengle Terrace) and one he has played very well on in the past (Kit Carson).
FPO: Indigo Brude has a very solid lead over Kimmy Jones – 82 to 50. There really aren't enough events left with big FPO fields to make up that difference.
MPM: Jerry Goff holds a 23-point lead over three players: Richard Hoffa, Dan Duron and Mike Bush, 138 to 115. They'll need a big field at SoCal Champs to catch him.
FPM & FPG: These two divisions share players – it really depends on who's showing up at each event to decide which division they'll play in. Emina Weaver leads Helen Wilson in FPM, 15 to 12; and Susie Horn (31 points) leads Suzette Simons (19), Helen Wilson (17) and Emina Weaver (16). The front-runners hold a distinct advantage.
MPG: One of the closesr, most-contested divisions. Marcus Cisneros (94) leads Steve Killian (91), Todd Banks (89) and Randy Wylot (87) by just a few points. This could be decided the final weekend.
MPS: Tom Clickner leads the division with 85 points. Glenn Triemstra (55), Phil Ganshert (43) and Mark Horn (41) could all catch him, but only if they play the final few events. Tom has played 5, the others only 2 or 3 (best 5 point totals count).
MPL: Bill Richards (34 points) has another title locked up.
MA1: A.J. Risley leads this large division with 143 points, ahead of Jeff Russell (132), Steve Valencia (131) and Patrick Paramore (123). Jeff and Steve could still catch A.J. if they were to finish at the top of a large field at the SoCal Championships, at least ten spots better than A.J.
FA1, FM1, FA2: Helen Wilson leads Karie Fisher in FA1, 32 to 15. Helen also has the FM1 title wrapped up with 44 points, while Karie will surely win FA2 with 33 points so far.
MM1: Roger Snider (90 points) may ride his win over the series' largest field at the Wintertime Open all the way to the title. His 90 points will be hard to catch for Anthony Bassett (81) and Jon Ventress (79).
MG1: Mark Hauser leads Gary Abraham 78 to 72 so far. In order to catch Mark, Gary needs to win an event with a large field…and have Mark stumble.
MS1: Jeffery Brown has this locked up.
MA2: Justin Proffitt (136 points) leads Joshua Fisher (124) and Aaron Hagner (123), and once again, they need to beat a large field and have him falter or not show up in order to catch him.
MA3: Matthew Garber and Troy Coffin are tied, with 111 points apiece! A strong showing in the last few events will decide the title. Indigo Brude (104) has a slim outside chance.
MA4: Another close one. Mike Ventress (33 points), Steve Reinhard (32) and Corbin Brown (30) could each take the title.
MJ1: Caleb Phillips leads Martin Arcos, 17 to 15.
Many of these series titles depend on the last few events of the season, most notably the neck-and-neck Men's Open battle between Rico and Braithwaite. Let's pack these last few tournaments!


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Every Wednesday: Elizabeth Breeden and the art of living
Ever been to a party where Charlottesville insiders one-up each other by remembering the lineage of various restaurants around town? Who knows what preceded Guadalajara across from the Rec Center? What was on West Main before the Blue Bird?
A true insider, however, is one who can boast of going to weekly suppers at Biscuit Run back in the '70s– since May of 1974, to be exact. That's when Elizabeth and David Breeden began the tradition of "open house"– serving dinner to anyone who showed up at their big art-filled country place on Old Lynchburg Road on Wednesday nights.
Over the years, the visitors have changed as people moved in and moved out, and as Charlottesville morphed from a sleepy little town with duck races behind Carroll's Tea Room to America's Number One place to live.
One thing that hasn't changed is Elizabeth Breeden herself– who hatched the idea of a Wednesday night open house in honor of the weekly Paris atelier gatherings of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein. She has presided over them for 30 years, through the birth of five children and the expansion of husband David's career as sculptor and stained glass master.
However, it's probably as founder and primary promoter of the highly visible community project ArtinPlace that Elizabeth is best known.
"Charlie and Blake Hurt came to my house for dinner," (on Wednesday) she remembers. "They said, 'How come there's no art on the streets of Charlottesville?' And thus ArtinPlace was born."
From that idea has sprung an organization which works, she says, "only because of the efforts of volunteers including a business person, a manager, a construction expert, an organizer"– that's Elizabeth– "and someone who drums up volunteers."
But while art seems to be the defining medium of her life, Breeden has her fingers in a surprisingly large number of other pies. Armed with a master's degree in counseling from UVA, the Louisville native also works at a center on West Main street that uses peer counseling– which she calls "the wave of the future" in mental health treatment– to help clients live "on our own."
Some non-art preoccupations also compel her attention: She's a board member of Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church on Rugby Road where "I bury people," she says almost cheerfully. "I dig the holes in our memorial garden with help from children and grandchildren of the deceased people, the way it used to be done."
And she's about to launch another project– Pacem, a combined effort of local churches to provide a place for homeless people to sleep this winter. "This is the first time churches have gotten together to help house the homeless," she says. "Each church will provide space for us to set up our cots, which will move from church to church from week to week."
Such a hectic schedule of community activism, which would exhaust even the most intrepid volunteer, seems to energize this funny, self-described "cross between a vixen and an old lady."
And there's no hope of a respite in the near future, although, "We're trying to plan a trip to Europe," she says, "before U.S. Air goes belly up and we lose our frequent flyer miles."
But that will have to come later, after an art show of Biscuit Run works at Gravity Lounge, after receptions for the new ArtinPlace artists, after all the busy activities of her whirlwind life. Are you free for dinner on Wednesday?
Age: 55
Why here? I came to graduate school and stayed. You always feel that if you put in the energy, you can influence anything in Charlottesville.
Worst thing about living here? Where are jobs for my children where they can feel fulfilled?
Favorite hangout? Outside on the Downtown Mall
Most overrated virtue. Good art
People would be surprised to know? I'm shy.
What would you change about yourself? The giant foot stuck in my mouth while I'm shoving the other in as fast as possible.
Proudest accomplishment? When I notice someone needs something, and I can give it to them
People find most annoying about you? My acerbic mouth
Favorite book? Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There must Be More to Life by Maurice Sendak
Causes you to rant? People who see that someone needs help and then rant about how the system should help them but don't try help out themselves
Biggest 21st century thrill? Email, the wonder of history TV, weirdness of reality TV, how stars get closer and atoms are visible
Biggest 21st century creep-out? Self-righteousness and war
What do you drive? Self decorated PT Cruiser
In your car CD player right now? Simon & Garfunkel, Peter Paul and Mary, Judy Collins, Joan Baez compilation
Next journey? Mexico, I hope
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? Trouble only counts if you're a kid... putting a slug in the gumball machine at Noper's Drug Store and telling my brother
Regret? More adventure when I travel. I'm timid.
Favorite comfort food? Dark, dark, chocolate
Always in your refrigerator? Cheese
Must-see TV? Early West Wing, Dead Like Me
Favorite cartoon? "Devil's Panties" "Puppetry"
Describe a perfect day. Today
Walter Mitty fantasy? I want to be a firewoman. I want to fly with my arms. I would love to be a really good child psychologist. I want to be a forest ranger. I want to be an industrial psychologist. I want to be a diplomat. There's lots more but...
Who'd play you in the movie? Baby Huey
Most embarrassing moment? I streaked John Tuck's wedding when I was eight months pregnant. There used to be pictures in the phone booth at the Gaslight.
Best advice you ever got? Listen
Favorite bumper sticker? Jesus is coming. Look busy.
Elizabeth Breeden


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Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
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An alternative to Zafir Andum's approach on determining right click on the header control is to use the HDM_HITTEST message in order to determine on which header item the user right clicked. This saves you the "for" loop for the determination of the column.
BOOL CMyListtCtrl::OnNotify(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, LRESULT* pResult) { if( wParam==0 && ((NMHDR*)lParam)->code ==NM_RCLICK) { POINT Point; GetCursorPos (&Point); ScreenToClient(&Point); HDHITTESTINFO HitTest; HitTest.pt.x = Point.x; HitTest.pt.y = Point.y; // Send the Hit Test Message GetHeaderCtrl()->SendMessage(HDM_HITTEST,0,(LPARAM)&HitTest); } }
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4 dead, 34 injured in Nangarhar bus plunge
4 dead, 34 injured in Nangarhar bus plunge
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Four children died and 34 people including women and children injured when their bus plunged into a deep ravine in Pachiragam district of Nangarhar province, officials said on Saturday.
Qari Hijratullah, the Pachiragam district administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the coaster bus fell into a ravine from a hilltop in Kuwanj village near the Tora Bora mountainous area late on Friday.
The people onboard were heading to attend an engagement ceremony and the accident occurred due to driver's recklessness, he said.
The vehicle was parked on the roadside, but it moved on itself because the driver had not pulled the handbrake up, Hijratullah added.
He said four children were killed and 34 others people including, women, children and men were injured in the plunge.
Governor's spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, said the injured were evacuated to a local health center in Pachiragam district and to Jalalabad Civil Hospital for treatment.
An eyewitness, Sardar Khan, said he saw many people injured in the accident being shifted by cars and ambulances to hospitals.
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I don't remember if I have ever covered this topic, but even if I have, it must be time to discuss or repeat it. Over the past few months, I have heard people express a belief that someone with dementia is using the illness as an excuse for rude or irrational behavior and being manipulative.
Honestly, this never occurred to me. Given that most, if not all, of those who are aware of their diagnosis go to great lengths to hide it from others until they feel they have to disclose for various reasons (job loss, giving up driving, decreasing social activities, and even awareness of personality changes), it is counterintuitive that those same people would then, at great personal risk, "use" that diagnosis to justify embarrassing behavior. It seems far more likely to me, that as a way to try to understand what happened themselves, the person with Alzheimer's disease would say, "I have Alzheimer's." Meaning, if I did not have this illness, I would be in control of what I do and say — but since I do have Alzheimer's, please understand (and accept) that I do not have control and may not even be aware of what I do or say.
When caregivers watch the disease progress and see their loved ones become increasingly irritable and argumentative with them, but not necessarily with other people, they may believe it is personal and intentional and respond emotionally. I believe they create more stress for both themselves and the person with dementia (PWA), and that this is a losing battle. Early in the disease, caregivers and friends often disbelieve when we forget. They will go up against the individual or discount that person as being overly dramatic, manipulative, attention-seeking, and taking advantage of their illness. While there probably are situations where that is true, the vast majority of the time, it is not. Because the disease and personality changes progress at different rates with different types of dementing illnesses and some affect personality much more than others, someone can be rational at times and irrational at other times, but they don't remember being irrational. When they are irrational, the best thing to do is to learn to either steer the subject away from the hot topic or to not take it personally, because quite honestly, it is not about you. It is about a battle inside our minds, where we are confused and we feel attacked with information that doesn't match what we are thinking. We will lash out at anyone. The battle is inside and it becomes external.
My advice: Step away. Step away and do not engage in any manner. I understand from caregivers that this is very hard, but this skill can be learned and developed with the help of caregiver and dementia peer support groups. When a caregiver or friend is faced with this and it is relatively early in the illness, the blaming and shaming of the person that lives with dementia is unhealthy and can destroy the relationship, or at least erode levels of trust and respect that will then have to be built back up on both sides.
This is a long journey, and we need to salvage every scrap of dignity and trust that we can. I am grateful to see other caregivers step up and encourage a person who is feeling manipulated to look at it from another angle, try different coping mechanisms, and even to see that it may be time for him or her to step away on a more consistent basis. It's better for all of us if we get out of the house occasionally without each other, whether you go out and get someone to watch the PWA, or have the PWA go to the park or lunch with a responsible person. No one should live with that constant pressure of "When is the next confrontation going to happen?"


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the Video Unit 13
Unit 13
Pre-Viewing Activity
and Discussion (30 minutes)
Before viewing the video, discuss the following questions:
Watch the Video
(30 minutes) and Discuss (30 minutes) [Top]
The video includes three segments:
1. John Kennedy in West Virginia
Like most candidates who run under their party's label, presidential
candidates must run a two-strategy race. The first strategy is to
gain the party's nomination by winning enough party delegates in
the primary and caucus elections. The second is to win enough votes
among all voters in the general election. In order to accrue delegate
support, candidates must determine the states where they will focus
their efforts, and those they will ignore or only nominally contest.
Because the electorates are different in each state, a candidate's
particular campaign strategy for each state will also differ. This
story covers the campaign of Senator John F. Kennedy for president
in 1960, as Kennedy stumps in West Virginia before the state's primary
Discussion Questions
Post-Viewing Activity
and Discussion (30 minutes) [Top]
Try the Critical
Thinking activity for Unit 13. This is a good activity to
use with your students, too.
1. Low Voter Turnout: Causes and Possible Remedies (20 minutes)
Voter Turnout in the U.S.: How Bad Is It?
Voter turnout is the rate by which people vote in elections. The
simplest way to calculate a given election's turnout rate is to
compare the actual number of voters with the voting-age population.
Compared to other industrialized representative democracies, the
United States ranks low in terms of voter turnout. For example,
voter turnout in U.S. presidential elections remains around 50 percent
of the total population of eligible voters. In off-year gubernatorial
elections (i.e., election years without a presidential election),
turnout can drop down into the 40 percent range and in off-year
congressional elections, down to the middle 30 percent range. In
primary elections, voter turnout can drop below 30 percent, while
in local elections, turnout often drops below 25 percent of eligible
voters. These voting rates place the United States near the bottom
of industrialized nations, many of which experience much higher
voting rates. For example, over 80 percent of eligible citizens
typically vote in Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands, Austria,
and Germany. Why is turnout so low in American elections? Do any
of the explanations offered seem satisfactory? Using the explanations
offered below, develop a plan to counter low voter turnout.
Who Votes in the U.S?
Voters in the U.S. come from all demographic groups, including the
young and old, and the rich and poor. However, those who vote most
often are older, have higher incomes, and are more educated. Wealthier
citizens are more likely to believe they have a personal stake in
the election and in the political process in general than less-wealthy
voters. In addition, wealthier voters also tend to be more educated.
Typically, the more educated you are, the more likely you are to
understand how the election system works. Also, people with more
education have a stronger sense of obligation to vote. Like voters
with higher rates of education, older citizens are more likely to
feel they have a stake in the election and a duty to vote. Many
older citizens also feel they have more time to vote than younger
Why Is Turnout So Low?
While scholars continue to debate the most important reasons for
lagging turnout in U.S. elections, most agree on the following as
contributing reasons:
How Should We Increase Turnout?
For those who feel we should try to increase voter turnout, there
are several potential changes to consider. One change would be to
adopt same-day registration procedures at voting places. This would
allow those who decide to vote late in the campaign the option of
voting. Such a move would build upon the 1993 Motor Voter Law that
allows citizens to register to vote at their Department of Motor
Vehicles and other public agencies. Another option would be to make
it easier for voters to cast an absentee ballot. While the practice
of absentee voting has risen significantly in the last decade, many
states still require that voters apply in person and far in advance
of the election. Streamlined absentee ballot procedures could bring
more voters into the process. Still another change to increase turnout
would be to keep the polls open longer, perhaps for 48 hours instead
of the average 12 to 15 hours that are usually available for voting.
This change could help particularly busy people get to the polls.
A final change might be to make election day a holiday. People would
have the day off from work, which would eliminate one common excuse
for not voting. And following the tradition in some European countries
where election day is a time of festivals, speeches, and feasts,
an election holiday might help foster a sense of celebration about
exercising our voting rights.
2. What Are the Effects of Low Voter Turnout? (10 minutes)
People disagree over the effects of voter turnout rates in the U.S.
Some people argue that because nonvoters tend to be poorer, less
educated, and minorities, elected politicians can more easily disregard
their interests when formulating public policy. Also, since the
Democratic Party tends to attract more people who fit these profiles,
higher voting rates might result in additional support for Democrats,
or for candidates from other parties that appeal to voters with
lower socio-economic status characteristics. Other people dispute
these assumptions. They argue that higher voting rates would not
change the overall makeup of the electorate enough to cause significant
change in election outcomes and public policy. A study of this question
by Raymond Wolfinger and Benjamin Highton, for example, found that
the overall group of nonvoters largely mirrors the diverse and ideologically
divided population that already votes. What is your view of this?
Should we be concerned about low voter turnout or simply assume
that those who are not voting are generally satisfied or at least
willing to accept the way things are?
Homework [Top]
Read the following Readings from Unit 14 to prepare for next week's
Read next week's Topic Overview.
Classroom Applications
You may want to have your students do the post-viewing activities:
Low Voter Turnout: Causes and Possible Remedies and What Are the
Effects of Low Voter Turnout? They are provided for you as blackline
masters in the Appendix of the print guide.
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Freese and Nichols was presented with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award during a ceremony on Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C.
The ceremony was presided over by U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson and Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Robert Pence, president and CEO, and Cindy Milrany, CFO, accepted the award on behalf of Freese and Nichols, the only engineering and architecture firm to ever receive this recognition.
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The Bluffton High volleyball team continued its stellar postseason play Thursday night.
Fresh off a straight-sets victory against Goose Creek in their opener, the Bobcats eased past White Knoll 25-16, 25-17, 25-9 in the second round of the SCHSL Class AAAA tournament.
Bluffton will visit Wando on Tuesday in the Lower State semifinals.
"It was even better (than the Goose Creek match) because it was against a better team," Bluffton coach Al Stern said. "They're just playing so great."
Stern said Tuesday he thought the Bobcats were peaking at the right time and they proved him right against White Knoll.
Grace Collins had three aces during an eight-point run early in the first set. Haley Kohler added a pair of late kills to finish off the nine-point victory.
The Bobcats trailed 7-6 in the second set before Collins served out another big run. They scored 11 consecutive points, five of them kills by Jordan Franklin, to take control.
Bluffton's most dominant set was the clincher, which it closed on a 7-0 run. Franklin had three kills and a block, including the match-winner, during that stretch.
Check Sunday's Bluffton Today for more on Bobcats volleyball.