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Stage set for class action hearing of O'Bannon vs. NCAA
OAKLAND -- After existing for months as a series of legal briefings and exhibits, expert reports and depositions, procedural skirmishes and small-scale rulings, a potentially landmark anti-trust lawsuit against the NCAA returns to a courtroom Thursday for what could be a major turning point in the case.
Lawyers for each side will appear before U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken here for a hearing on whether the case should be certified as a class action. Lawyers involved with the case are not anticipating that she will issue a ruling Thursday, but her questions and reactions to each side's arguments may provide hints about her thinking on two separate, but related, issues: the immediate legal requirements for class certification and the broader merits of the plaintiffs' case.
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During these types of hearings, Wilken -- the chief judge for the Northern District of California – "tells you what it is she would like you to focus on," said Steve Williams, an attorney who handles anti-trust and complex civil litigation for the Bay Area-based firm Cotchett, Pitre and McCarthy and has appeared before Wilken but is not involved in this case. "This case has been briefed very exhaustively. I expect the court to be deeply familiar with the arguments on both sides. I expect she may have questions that, within the papers, the sides haven't fully formed themselves."
Currently the case involves former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon and more than a dozen other former college football and men's basketball players taking on the NCAA, video game manufacturer Electronic Arts and the nation's leading collegiate trademark licensing and marketing firm, Collegiate Licensing Co.
The plaintiffs allege that the defendants violated anti-trust law by conspiring to fix at zero the amount of compensation athletes can receive for the use of their names, images and likenesses in products or media while they are in school and by requiring athletes to sign forms under which they relinquish in perpetuity all rights pertaining to the use of the names, images and likenesses in ways including TV contracts, rebroadcasts of games, and video game, jersey and other apparel sales.
That's significant enough. It potentially brings into question the legality of the NCAA's longstanding system of allowing athletes to receive relatively few benefits beyond tuition, fees, room, board and books in exchange for playing games that, in the case of football and men's basketball players, generate billions of dollars for the NCAA and its member schools and conferences.
"Even if it's not on a class basis, it is still a very interesting challenge to the system and character of college sports," Williams said.
If the case is confined to O'Bannon and the other named plaintiffs only, the potential damages and systemic changes could be limited.
PREVIOUSLY:Commissioners to be deposed
However, if Wilken certifies the suit as a class action, it could allow thousands of former and current football and men's basketball players to join the case. That could create the possibility of a damages award in the billions of dollars. In addition, if the plaintiffs were to get everything they have said they are seeking, it would force the establishment of an entirely new compensation arrangement for current NCAA Bowl Subdivision football players and Division I men's basketball players -- one under which "monies generated by the licensing and sale of class members' names, images and likenesses can be temporarily held in trust" until their end of their college playing careers.
For any of those wide-sweeping potential impacts to be play, though, Wilken must determine that the case meets criteria for class certification that are set under the federal rules of civil legal procedure. The criteria basically require that there be questions of law or fact that are common to the prospective wider class and that those questions are greater in number than any questions that affect individual members of the prospective wider class.
While it would seem that the NCAA's rules about what athletes can receive for playing sports create an overriding common question, two of the named plaintiffs – former Connecticut basketball player Tate George and former Alabama football player Tyrone Prothro – said in depositions by lawyers for the defendants that star players should be paid more than lesser players. That creates individual questions.
How does Wilken go about deciding this? In part, by considering the merits of the plaintiffs' case against the NCAA and its co-defendants.
The NCAA says considerable weight should be given to the merits of the plaintiffs' case – and that the case is a poor one. The NCAA maintains that numerous prior federal court rulings have upheld and reinforced the legality of its system limiting what athletes can receive in exchange for playing sports. It also contends that the plaintiffs have made improper and unfair changes in their legal strategy, trying change the case from being one exclusively about former athletes to one that includes current athletes -- and even with the change, that only leads back to its contention that individual questions like the compensation of stars and reserves override the common questions.
"The way they've changed their case makes it even less likely that they should be able to get a class certified here," NCAA executive vice president and general counsel Donald Remy said in an interview last week.
The plaintiffs say the case should be decided on its merits primarily at trial, not at the class-certification stage. However, they maintain their case is solid. For instance, they have filed numerous e-mails to and from a wide range of NCAA executive staff members, university presidents and chancellors, EA employees and CLC employees that they say show that the defendants were well aware that they were infringing on the athletes' rights to their names and likenesses.
Among them is an e-mail chain relating to the lawsuit among then-Big 12 Conference commissioner Dan Beebe, University of Texas-Austin president Bill Powers and Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman. In it, Perlman -- a former dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law -- wrote in part: "This whole area of name and likeness and the NCAA is a disaster leading to a catastrophe as far as I can tell."
Steve Berkowitz is on Twitter@ByBerkowitz.


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You're reading this blog, so it's probably reasonable to assume you're aware of Jon Bonné. Possibly from just reading this blog, but more likely because of his excellent wine column in the San Francisco Chronicle.
He's an excellent writer, with an excellent palate, and above all else, he's a pro.
And, he likes to have a bit of fun with some archetypal end-of-year tropes; something I'm rather fond of as well.
Jon's most recent contribution to the EOY canon is a column entitled "The Ten Most Memorable Wines of 2012."
I like this. I like this because it calls attention to that which separates the wine from the drink, as it were. A drink is food, is culinary. It is tasted, it is savored, it is assessed, and hopefully, it is enjoyed. But a wine, when wonderful, is more than that. It is experiential. It is a moment. It is a memory in the making.
To remember a wine as memorable is to recognize it for what it is best able to achieve; to acknowledge that it has become a part of one's personal emotional and aesthetic history.
So I love this list. Because it's not necessarily about identifying the "best" wines per se, it's about identifying the wines that continue to live with you, that continue to move you, that continue to haunt you in the best ways.
A memorable wine is an experience, a night you'll never forget.
I encourage you to read Jon's list; it's a phenomenal compendium of experiences.
In the #3 spot are two Ridge wines; the 2009 Monte Bello, and the 1971 Eisele.
The 1971 Eisele.
A wine I'll never forget.
I first tasted this wine in May of 2009. You can find my tasting notes here:
I read back on my write-up now, and have to laugh at the nervous rigidity of my prose; in an effort to constrain my ebullience, I tightened up, and attempted to present straightforward tasting notes in as pro a fashion as possible. Ridiculous.
Eric Baugher, our VP of Winemaking here at Monte Bello, said it far better than I did:
"The '71 Eisele was awesome!"
Cheers Jon; to your memories, and ours, and everyone's!
To read Jon's full article, please click the following link:
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A Compilation of Environmental Education News from Across Louisiana
National Green Week (February 6-10, 2012)
National Green Week (NGW) empowers students to be leaders of their own sustainability campaigns. NGW kicks off February 6-10, 2012, and educators can choose any week between February 6 and Earth Day (April 22) to participate. Learn more
National Environmental Education Week (April 15-21, 2012)
The 2012 National Environmental Education Week's theme will be Greening STEM: The Environment as Inspiration for 21st Century Learning
The environment is a compelling context for teaching STEM as it provides teachers with a diverse range of real-world challenges that engage students in hands-on opportunities to apply and reinforce STEM concepts across multiple subject areas. To support this year's theme, EE Week will offer all registered participants:
• Free EE Week planning toolkits with information and grade-appropriate activities that incorporate STEM learning into popular environmental topic areas, such as school gardens, energy conservation and weather.
• A free educator webinar on using the environment as a context for teaching STEM, with school-based project ideas and opportunities for Q&A with experts.
• Discounts, giveaways and special offers from EE Week partners.
Learn more about EE Week and register your school or organization to be a 2012 NEEW partner today.
UWSP Spring 2012 Courses in Environmental Education
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will be offering four online courses in environmental education and natural resources from January 26 through May 4. Scholarships are offered for several of the courses. Learn more
Captain Planet Foundation Grants (Deadline: January 15)
The Captain Planet Foundation funds projects that engage students in active, hands-on activities that improve the environment in their schools and communities. Learn more
2012 Wildlife Conservation Youth Engagement Grants (Deadline: February 1)
Planet Connect, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency, invites high school students to develop an idea for a project that addresses a local wildlife or natural resources issue in their community. Students chosen as winners will win $500 to implement their project as well as a $500 stipend toward an 80-hour wildlife conservation or natural resource internship in their community. Learn more
2011 President's Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) (Deadline: December 31)
The PEYA program promotes awareness of our nation's natural resources and encourages positive community involvement. One outstanding project from our region (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX) will be selected for recognition. Projects are developed by young individuals, school classes (K-12), summer camps, and youth organizations to promote environmental stewardship. For more information and application, visit: www.epa.gov/peya Applications can be emailed to Bonnie King 6XA at email@example.com or mailed to: USEPA, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202-2733 Attention: Bonnie King 6XA. Application and postmark deadline is December 31, 2011.
Climate Stewards Education Project - Class of 2012 (Deadline: January 13)
NOAA manages an exciting national education initiative for formal and informal educators - the Climate Stewards Education Project (CSEP). The goals of this project are to provide educators with sustained professional development, collaborative tools, and support to build a climate-literate public that is actively engaged in climate stewardship activities. They are seeking 40 new educators to join the CSEP community in 2012. Please see the attached Project Invitation Letter and Application Agreement for more information. Application Agreements should be completed and emailed to: firstname.lastname@example.com by January 13, 2012. Applicants will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis. Applicants accepted into the program will be notified in early February.
Eco-Hero Awards (Deadline: January 15)
Action For Nature (AFN), a non-profit organization, honors the creative environmental projects of young people between the ages of 8 and 16. Winners receive cash prizes and a special certificate, as well as public recognition on the Action for Nature website. Learn more
Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education; Request for Nominations of Candidates for the National Environmental Education Advisory Council (Deadline: January 15)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education Staff Office is soliciting applications for environmental education professionals for consideration on the National Environmental Education Advisory Council (NEEAC). There are eleven vacancies on the Advisory Council that must be filled. Applications should be submitted by January 15, 2012. Learn more
The Volvo Adventure Competition (Deadline: January 31)
The Volvo Adventure is an education program that awards teams of 2-5 students aged 13-16 for an environmental project in their community. Finalists win an all expenses paid trip to Sweden where they compete for cash prizes. Learn more
CRCL Announces New Mississippi River Delta Website
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Environmental Defense Fund, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, National Audubon Society, and National Wildlife Federation announce the recent launch of www.MississippiRiverDelta.org, a new site focused on restoring the Mississippi River Delta. This site houses scientific information, public policy analysis, cultural and historical summaries, and Delta Dispatches, a news blog about restoration efforts in the delta.
NSF Offers Online Climate Change Resources
Earth science teachers and students often examine the connections between two related topics: energy and climate. For those wishing to take a closer look at climate change, the National Science Foundation (NSF) offers a useful web site. Click here to find an NSF report summarizing the current state of knowledge about climate change. The succinct format is enhanced with slideshows and videos.
Project Noah
Project Noah is an online and mobile location-based application that encourages people to reconnect with nature by documenting local wildlife. The tool harnesses the power and popularity of smart phones to collect important ecological data and help preserve global biodiversity. Learn more
DiscoverWater.org from Project WET is a free online resource for students and teachers about water and water related topics. Learn more
Tips from EnergyStar.gov to help save on heating and energy over the winter months:
• Teach kids (Cool Energy Games at this site!) about how becoming energy-efficient can help save our world
• Prepare an Energy Strategy for the Future
• Establish a comprehensive energy management program using ENERGY STAR's Guidelines for Energy Management and read the Energy Design Guidance for New Buildings
• Join ENERGY STAR
• Evaluate your school's energy performance with Portfolio Manager
• Learn about financing your energy projects
• Visit EPA's Indoor Air Quality for Schools Website and download Energy Efficiency and Indoor Air Quality in Schools
• Receive training through Online Training Sessions
• Purchase ENERGY STAR qualified products to save energy throughout your building
Find out about wetland outreach activities including symposiums, conferences, meetings, educational opportunities, volunteer opportunities, and related support material at the Louisiana Unified Coastal Community Calendar at http://lacoast.gov/calendar/
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Juliet Raffray, Environmental Education Assistant Coordinator, 225-765-0124, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Tilton Fenwick, Rec Room
Designers Suysel dePedro Cunningham and Anne Maxwell Foster teamed up to create this revitalizing rec room. The founders of the Tilton Fenwick design firm focused on a relaxed concept. This included a low-profiled grouping of green settees with tufted buttons, set back-to-back for a casual feel. Other pieces of small-scale seating—like poufs and swivel chairs—were scattered throughout the space.
Photography: John Bessler and Jonny Valiant
Atop the white bar table sits a brass lamp by Circa Lighting. Small accessories fill the shelves; an untitled black-and-white photograph by Nicholas Breslow hangs above.
Tilton Fenwick design firm founders Suysel dePedro Cunningham and Anne Maxwell Foster didn't overlook the little details when designing this rec room. "We're just in love with these smaller moments," agrees the design team.
Interior designers: Suysel de Pedro Cunningham and Anne Maxwell Foster, Tilton Fenwick, 15 W. 18th St., Suite 201, New York, NY 10011; 212/524-0010, tiltonfenwick.com.
Rec room—Sofas (custom): Luther Quintana Upholstery, 212/462-2033, lqupholstery.com.
Sofa fabric ("Gainsborough Velvet"/Moss #42863): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
Pillows on sofas ("Ultima"/Vanilla): Robert Allen, 800/333-3777, robertallendesign.com.
Pillow trim (#VL-8250-0013): Old World Weavers, 212/355-7186. Leather table between sofas (custom): Tilton Fenwick, 212/524-0010, tiltonfenwick.com. Leather fabric on table ("Exotica Ostrich"): Stark, 212/355-7186. Lanterns on table; game: HomeGoods, 800/888-0776, homegoods.com.
Pair of ottomans (custom): Luther Quintana Upholstery, 212/462-2033, lqupholstery.com.
Blue fabric on ottoman ("Ultima"/Caribbean): Robert Allen, 800/333-3777, robertallendesign.com.
Patterned pillow-tops on ottomans ("Esperanza"/Moss #F1260-05, by Designers Guild): Osborne & Little, 212/751-3333, designersguild.com.
Hanging lantern ("French Chateau Lantern"/Verdigris #CLA51/V): Vaughan, 212/319-7070, vaughandesigns.com.
Garden stool/end table: James Sansum Fine & Decorative Art, 212/288-9455, jamessansum.com.
Area rug ("Sisal Dune"/Blue, Barclay Butera Collection): Merida Meridian, 800/345-2200, meridameridian.com.
Wall covering ("Rivets"/Copper on Elephant Manila Hemp #5709): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 800/576-5455, phillipjeffries.com.
Tall cabinet ("Bookcase 9839"): Pearson Company, 336/882-8135, pearsoncompany.com.
Art over cabinet (Warm Water Shoulder, Nassau, by Bill Phelps): Robin Rice Gallery, 212/366-6660, robinricegallery.com.
Abstract painting to right of door (Summer Sky, byJules Cozine): Emily Amy Gallery, 404/877-5626, emilyamygallery.com.
Coffee table ("Tortoise Parchment Table" #60T-611, by Oscar de la Renta): Century Furniture, centuryfurniture.com.
Console table ("Peony Console Table" #7777-10, by Mariette Himes Gomez): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Ceramic lamps on console ("Garniture"/Prussian Blue): Christopher Spitzmiller, 212/563-1144, christopherspitzmiller.com.
Painting over console (La Fortuna Mexico Sunset 7:41 p.m., by Eric Cahan): James Sansum Fine & Decorative Art, 212/288-9455, jamessansum.com.
Sculpture on console (vintage): Stamford Antiques Center, 203/357-0622.
Chairs flanking console (vintage Colombian 1970s Inlaid Horn Armchairs): Darrell Dean Antiques, 202/333-6330, darrelldeanantiques.1stdibs.com.
Armless chairs (custom): Luther Quintana Upholstery, 212/462-2033, lqupholstery.com.
Striped fabric on chairs ("Ellora Stripe"/Aqua, Jade): Stark, 212/355-7186.
Green patterned fabric on chairs ("Chartreuse 3" #DEMB0153, by Muriel Brandolini): Holland & Sherry, 212/355-6241, hollandandsherry.com.
Bar area—White bar table (custom design by Markham Roberts): James Sansum Fine & Decorative Art, 212/288-9455, jamessansum.com.
Brass lamps on bar table ("Hargett Table Lamp" #SP3011, by Randy Powers): Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323, circalighting.com.
Lampshades (custom): Tilton Fenwick, 212/524-0010, tiltonfenwick.com.
Photo graph over bar table (Untitled, by Nicholas Breslow): Nicholas Breslow, nicholasbreslow.com.
Powder room—Fabric on skirted table ("Tamerlane"/Aquamarine #BR-79759.249): Brunschwig & Fils, 800/538-1880, brunschwig.com.
Ruffle on table skirt ("Ultima"/Taupe): Robert Allen, 800/333-3777, robertallendesign.com.
Table lamp (vintage, Prussian Blue lamp): flea market find. White chairs ("Round-Back Medallion Chair"/White Lacquer): Michael Tavano, 212/564-0034, michaeltavano.com.
Small table ("Bunching Table" #9651): Pearson Company, 336/882-8135, pearsoncompany.com.
Large art beside white chair (Untitled Nightfall, by Alex Schuchard): Space B Gallery, 917/518-2385, spaceb.com.
Aurélien Gallet, Game Room
There's no shortage of things to talk about in Aurélien Gallet's game room. From the "Red Mouse" painting by Gottried Helnwein to the crystal foosball table by B. Lab Italia—it can be immediately assumed this isn't a typical play space. Beautiful floors by Mirage Flooring wrap the whole space together. "This room was the perfect opportunity to curate functional furniture, decorative objects, and fine art within the leisure and sports sectors that seldom have a voice," says Gallet.
Gallet's goal was to create an atmosphere where adults could escape and revert back to their inner child. The light sculpture on the wall, "Nowhere Man 7" by Ivan Navarro, sticks to the sports theme while also giving a youthful vibe to the room.
A Jacques Adnet desk from France is adorned by little accents, such as the art deco ceramic vase by Ingrid Atterberg and the silkscreen artwork titled "How 31" by Nicholas Howey.
"This room was the perfect opportunity to playfully curate functional furniture, rare decorative objects, and fine art within the leisure and sports sectors that seldom have a voice," says designer Aurélien Gallet.
Interior designer: Aurélien Gallet, Aurélien Gallet, LLC, 259 E. 7th st., New York, NY 10009; 212/228-2281, aureliengallet.com.
Game room, toward Mickey Mouse—Wall covering, upper ("Soho Hemp"/Blue and Gray #5282); wall covering, lower ("Java Cork"/Natural 4758): Phillip Jeffries, 800/576-5455, phillipjeffries.com.
Mouse art (Red Mouse, by Gottfried Helnwein, oil acrylic on canvas, 2009): Friedman Benda, 212/239-8700, friedmanbenda.com.
Table to left of mouse art (vintage stool); lamp on table (brass desk lamp with perforated shade, 1940s, by Paavo Tynell): Wyeth, 631/604-1818, wyethome.com. Bench under mouse art (long bench, oak, France, 1940s, by Andre Arbus): Magen H Gallery, 212/777-8670, magenxxcentury.com.
Pedestal game table ("Slate Top Chip Carved Cone Table," American 1960s, by Phillip Lloyd Powell): Todd Merrill Antiques, 212/673-0531.
Chairs at game table (by Poul Kjaerholm, 1964): R20th Century, 212/343-7979, r20thcentury.com.
Lamp on game table (vintage desk lamp): Wyeth, 631/604-1818, wyethome.com. Sculptural metal stool by game table (Black Champaign Stool, by Forrest Myers, anodized aluminum): Friedman Benda, 212/239-8700, friedmanbenda.com. Flooring (Handcrafted Oak, 5-inch width; color "Chateau"; finish "Cashmere"): Mirage Flooring, 800/463-1303, miragefloors.com.
Game room, toward light wall sculpture—Table with football game (vintage); counter stool at football table (vintage): Wyeth, 631/604-1818, wyethome.com. Football game ("Green Teckell Foosball Table," 2011, by B. Lab Italia): RAREculture, 877/780-7526, rareculture.com.
Drapery ("Gobi Linen"/Tumbleweed #34537-5, "Rimini"/Off-White #34381-1, and "Antigua"/Natural #34566-2): Clarence House, 800/221-4704, clarencehouse.com. Light sculpture on wall (Nowhere Man 7, by Iván Navarro): Paul Kasmin Gallery, 212/563-4474, paulkasmingallery.com.
Wingback armchair: Aurelien Gallet Home Collection, aureliengallet.com. Chair fabric ("Dundee"/Cedar #34218-41): Clarence House, 800/221-4704, clarencehouse.com.
Metal stool by lounge chair (Black Champaign Stool, by Forrest Myers, anodized aluminum); rocking chair ("Abilene Rocking Chair," by Wendell Castle): Friedman Benda, 212/239-8700, friedmanbenda.com.
Table lamp in shape of barbell (France, 1970s): R20th Century, 212/343-7979, r20thcentury.com.
Game room. toward desk—Writing desk (by Jacques Adnet, France): Magen H. Gallery, 212/777-8670, magenxxcentury.com.
Tall Art Deco ceramic vase on desk, left (by Ingrid Atterberg for Manufacture Upsala Ekeby); art on desk (How 31, by Nicholas Howey, silkscreen on paper, 2001): Maison Gerard, 212/674-7611.
Metal geometric art on desk (Geometry #6, by Alain Douillard, stainless steel, France, 1977): Magen H. Gallery, 212/777-8670, magenxxcentury.com.
Stool under desk (vintage): Wyeth, 631/604-1818, wyethome.com.
Black art on wall (Mao Dead, by Bill Beckley, 1976): Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 212/274-9300, tonyshafrazigallery.com.
Lower Landing by Lisa Hilderbrand & Jeanette Weldon
Designers Lisa Hilderbrand and Jeanette Weldon of Welhil Interiors turned the lower stair landing into a fully stocked bar—an old-school one, at that. A masculine palette and demilune bar added substance to the space.
Plenty of seating ensures conversation and an excuse to enjoy a martini or mixed drink from the bar. An array of bold colors ranging from coral orange to soft yellow is sprinkled throughout the space.
"The space needed impact and purpose," says designer Lisa Hilderbrand of the lower landing turned bar area. "Otherwise, it would have been a forgettable pass-through."
Interior designer: Lisa Hilderbrand and Jeanette Weldon, Welhil Interiors, 11 River Rd., Norwalk, CT 06850; 203/847-3870, welhil.com.
Lower landing toward stairs—Bar (antique): designer's collection.
Chandelier (round crystal chandelier, c. 1960, from Gaetano Scolari): BG Galleries, 617/901-4333, beyondgorgeosity.com.
Acrylic chair by bar ("Saturn"): Andrew Martin, 212/688-4498, andrewmartin.co.uk.
Chair-seat fabric (Sensuede Eco Suede #15278-548, Ultramarine); pillow on chair (Sensuede Eco Suede #15278-539, Banana): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com. Wall covering ("Drag" wallpaper, coated with water-based polyurethane): Farrow & Ball, 888/511-1121, farrow-ball.com.
Carpet ("Hemp Grass Matte"): Merida, 800/345-2200, meridameridian.com. Decanter, vintage bar accoutremnts: designer's collection.
Glassware ("Bubbles"): Saint-Louis Crystal, saint-louis.com.
Toward sofa—High-backed sofa (custom): Dmitriy & Co., 212/243-4800, dmitriyco.com.
Sofa fabric (#15286-206, Navy): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Sofa trim (1/4-inch Liège Linen Cord with Tape"/Cream #981-45772-01): Samuel & Sons, 212/704-8000, samuelandsons.com.
Striped pillows (#15092-651/Crystal, woven, and #15090-563/Lapis, velvet): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Pillow trim ("2-inch Desert Linen Border"/Midnight #977-42631-11): Samuel & Sons, 212/704-8000, samuelandsons.com.
Solid pillow (#32085-207/Cobalt, linen): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com. Pillow trim ("La Petite Silk Moss Fringe"/Teal Melange #983-36718-65, and "3/8-inch Braided Leather Cord with Tape"/Mahogany #973-39408-2); orange pillow ("Le Musee French Silk Marabout"/Poppy Melange #983-27897-664, colorway discontinued): Samuel & Sons, 212/704-8000, samuelandsons.com.
End table by sofa (George III mahogany cellarettes, c. 1780): George N Antiques, 212/935-4005, georgenantiques.com.
Floor lamp (brass, mid-century): Harborview Antiques, harborviewantiques.com. Red ceramic stool (pierced garden stool/Persimmon): Gump's, gumps.com. Magnifying glass; accessories: designer's collection.
Toward map—Map (custom): Welhil Interiors, 203/847-3870, welhil.com.
Table bases in front of map (consoles by Paolo Buffa, c. 1940): Thomas Gallery Ltd., tomthomas.1stdibs.com.
Table lamps ("Patricia"/Gold Lustre): Christopher Spitzmiller, 212/563-1144, christopherspitzmiller.com.
Stool in front of map (3-cushion pouf, mid-century): designer's collection.
Pillow fabric on stools ("Prana II"/Buttercup #190036H-610): Highland Court, 800/387-2533, highlandcourtfabrics.com.
Pillow trim ("Le Jardin Silk Chair Tassel"/Canary #976-41397-95): Samuel & Sons, 212/704-8000, samuelandsons.com.
Wall covering ("Drag" coated with water-based polyurethane): Farrow & Ball, 888/511-1121, farrow-ball.com.
Ceiling wallpaper ("Lacquered Walls"/Crème Lustre #3853): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 973/575-5414, phillipjeffries.com.
Trim paint ("Mountain Peak White" #OC-121): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Picture lights over map ("Frame Maker's 30-inch Picture Light"/Antique Brass #SL2708): Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323, circalighting.com.
Raji Radhakrishnan, Ladies' Lounge
Designer Raji Radhakrishnan chose to whitewash the paneling and drench the walls in bright white in her ladies' lounge. A mural of Queen Victoria within one of the panels rests above the deep-seated, low-slung sofa, together serving as the room's focal point.
The 19th-century giltwood-reeded mirror reflects parts of the room, while simultaneously making the ladies' lounge seem larger. Vintage French ceramics decorate the custom console, which also holds ingredients for the perfect after-dinner drink.
A tree lamp by Maison Gerard gives an organic feel to the peaceful rest space.
"I envisioned this room as a private lounge for a woman like Hilary Clinton or Margaret Thatcher," says designer Raji Radhakrishnan.
Interior designer: Raji Radhakrishnan, Raji RM & Assoc., 23015 Eagle Watch Court, Brambleton, VA 20148; 202/330-3866, rajirm.com.
Salon des femmes or ladies lounge—Paint ("Super White"): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Photo mural (custom); lucite and fur chair (vintage); area rug (jute); accessories: Raji RM & Assoc., 202/330-3866, rajirm.com.
Glass rod and metal cabinet (by Christophe Côme): Cristina Grajales Gallery, 212/219-9941, cristinagrajalesinc.com.
Sofa ("Jules"): George Smith, 212/226-4747, georgesmith.com.
Sofa fabric ("Omar"/Cardamon): Raoul Textiles, 805/965-1694, raoultextiles.com. Sofa pillows ("Butterflower"/Cassis #2008176.97): Lee Jofa, 800/453-3563, leejofa.com.
Patterned pillow fabric: Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
End table/coffee table (sycamore and blue lacquer, by Jean-Bérenger de Nattes): Maison Gerard, 212/674-7611, maisongerard.com.
Venetian glass floor lamp (20th-century): Lee Calicchio Ltd., 212/588-0841, leecalicchioltd.com.
Sculptural floor lamp ("Hans Ansem Floor Lamp"); wall brackets (vintage): Maison et Toi, LLC, 202/330-3866, maisonettoi.com.
Sculptural sideboard (by Dassi): Donzella 20th Century Gallery, 212/965-8919, donzella.com.
Toward mirror—Console (custom, by Giovanni Michelucci): Donzella 20th Century Gallery, 212/965-8919, donzella.com.
Mirror (19th-century giltwood reeded mirror): Lee Calicchio Ltd., 212/588-0841, leecalicchioltd.com.
Ottomans ("Ottoman Racer"): George Smith, 212/226-4747, georgesmith.com. Ottoman fabric ("Exoticus"/Elephant Leaf in Camel #410R32): Raoul Textiles, 805/965-1694, raoultextiles.com.
Ceiling light (plaster, by Marc Bankowsky): Maison Gerard, 212/674-7611, maisongerard.com.
Rush stools Raji RM & Assoc., 202/330-3866, rajirm.com.
Vintage French ceramics (by Robert and Jean Cloutier, Pol Chambost and Roger Capron): Maison et Toi, LLC, 202/330-3866, maisonettoi.com.
Inset of sideboard—Sideboard (by Dassi): Donzella 20th Century Gallery, 212/965-8919, donzella.com.
Tree lamp: Maison Gerard, 212/674-7611, maisongerard.com.
Eileen Kathryn Boyd, Pool House, Main Floor
The opportunity to design the pool house came at the perfect time for Eileen Kathryn Boyd. Her first fabric line with Duralee had just launched, featuring a collection full of color. Bright yellow takes the main stage and is accompanied by splashes of fuchsia and teal, which go well with the room's white woodwork and neutral rug.
Comfy seating layered with plush pillows takes in views of the pool area, and seashell artwork aligns with the summer beach scene.
Boyd was sure to include plenty of storage for pool toys, towels, and beach bags.
The Dutch Colonial-style pool house stretches 1,800 square feet and includes two full baths, a kitchenette, and a fireplace—making it the perfect Hamptons hideaway.
Designer Eileen Kathryn Boyd's favorite part of the pool house was the daybed. "It anchors the space and is perfect for lounging," she says.
Interior designer: Eileen Kathryn Boyd, Eileen Kathryn Boyd Interiors, 251 Main St., Huntington, NY 11743; 631/427-6400, ekbinteriors.com.
Fabrics: Eileen Kathryn Boyd for Duralee.
Window-seat area—Wall covering ("Manila Hemp"/White #5201): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 800/576-5455, phillipjeffries.com.
Ceiling paint ("Yellow Brick Road" #349): Benjamin Moore, 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Flooring ("Mandacaru"/City): Merida, 800/345-2200, meridameridian.com. Window shade and window-seat cushion fabric ("Feline"/Dune #15371-588): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Pillow fabrics, from left ("Giverney"/Buttercup #21009-610; "Huntington Stripe"/Smoke #15367-352; "Hingham Plaid"/Hyacinth #15362-618): duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Bags ("EKB Custom Tote Bag"): Eileen Kathryn Boyd Interiors, 631/427-6400, ekbinteriors.com.
Inset of tote bag—Bags ("EKB Custom Tote Bag"); tote-bag fabric ("Zsa Zsa"/Pool #15394-439, with "Butterfield"/Peridot #15374-579, by Eileen Kathryn Boyd): Duralee Fabrics, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Portrait—Fireplace treatment (custom design): Eileen Kathryn Boyd Interiors, 631/427-6400, ekbinteriors.com.
Flooring ("Mandacaru"/City): Merida, 800/345-2200, meridameridian.com.
Ceiling paint ("Nimbus" #1465): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Wall covering ("Juicy Jute Grasscloth"/Meyer Lemon #4822): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 800/576-5455, phillipjeffries.com.
Art (Nautilus 2003, by Robert LeBeau): Robert Burge/Twentieth Century Photographs Ltd., 212/838-4005, yaleburge.com.
Drapery ("Giverney"/Buttercup #21009-610): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Slipper chair ("Novi" #OS1650-010: Duralee Fine Furniture, 866/565-7731, duralee.com.
Slipper chair fabric ("Pulse"/Hyacinth #15378-618, by Eileen Kathryn Boyd for Duralee): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Cocktail table (vintage): designer's collection. Lantern ("Hampton Tall Metal/Glass Lantern" #2759): Arteriors Home, 877/488-8866, arteriorshome.com.
Pillow fabric ("Annette"/Pool #15396-439, paired in some photos with "Glowby"/Aegean #15398-246): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Pool house, dresser area—Wall covering ("Juicy Jute Grasscloth"/Meyer Lemon #4822): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 800/576-5455, phillipjeffries.com.
Portière fabric ("Giverney"/Buttercup #21009-610): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Chest of drawers (vintage): designer's collection. Ottoman ("Trent" #OS5067-000): Duralee Fine Furniture, 866/565-7731, duralee.com.
Ottoman fabric ("Noelle"/Buttercup #15361-610): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Lamp ("Sophia Lamp"/crackle finish; white flat drum shade): Mottega, 877/612-6688, mottega.com.
Art (Tree of Life, by Kerry Irvine): Kerry Irvine, kerryirvinecreative.com.
Daybed area—Flooring ("Mandacaru"/City): Merida, 800/345-2200, meridameridian.com.
Wall covering ("Juicy Jute Grasscloth"/Meyer Lemon #4822): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 800/576-5455, phillipjeffries.com.
Ceiling paint ("Nimbus" #1465): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Drapery ("Giverney"/Buttercup #21009-610): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Chairs ("Theo" #OS7347-015: Duralee Fine Furniture, 866/565-7731, duralee.com. Chair fabric ("Feline"/Hyacinth #15371-618): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Daybed (custom design): Eileen Kathryn Boyd Interiors, 631/427-6400, ekbinteriors.com.
Daybed fabric ("Lucchese"/Dove #15381-159); throw fabric ("Lucchese"/Dove #15381-159); throw trim ("Feline"/Aegean #15371-246): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Daybed pillows, clockwise ("Cameron"/Hyacinth #15379-618; "Giverney"/Buttercup #21009-610; "Annette"/Pool #15396-246); blue pillow on chair ("Annette"/Pool #15396-439, paired with "Glowby"/Aegean #15398-246): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Yellow pillow on chair (custom): Eileen Kathryn Boyd Interiors, 631/427-6400, ekbinteriors.com.
Art (White Heart 1, by Robert LeBeau): Robert Burge/Twentieth Century Photographs Ltd., 212/838-4005, yaleburge.com.
Cocktail table (vintage): designer's collection.
Chandelier ("1960s Murano Chandelier"): Lost City Arts, 212/375-0500, lostcityarts.com.
Floor lamp ("Bodega Distressed White Driftwood Floor Lamp" #75409-403): Arteriors Home, 877/488-8866, arteriorshome.com.
Slipper chair in foreground ("Novi" #OS1650-010: Duralee Fine Furniture, 866/565-7731, duralee.com.
Slipper chair fabric ("Pulse"/Hyacinth #15378-618, by Eileen Kathryn Boyd for Duralee): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Fireplace area—Fireplace treatment (custom design): Eileen Kathryn Boyd Interiors, 631/427-6400, ekbinteriors.com.
Flooring ("Mandacaru"/City): Merida, 800/345-2200, meridameridian.com.
Ceiling paint ("Nimbus" #1465): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667, benjaminmoore.com.
Wall covering ("Juicy Jute Grasscloth"/Meyer Lemon #4822): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 800/576-5455, phillipjeffries.com.
Art (Nautilus 2003, by Robert LeBeau): Robert Burge/Twentieth Century Photographs Ltd., 212/838-4005, yaleburge.com.
Drapery ("Giverney"/Buttercup #21009-610): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Slipper chair ("Novi" #OS1650-010): Duralee Fine Furniture, 866/565-7731, duralee.com.
Slipper chair fabric ("Pulse"/Hyacinth #15378-618): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Cocktail table (vintage): designer's collection. Chandelier ("1960s Murano Chandelier"); side table (Petal Side Table," by Richard Schultz): Lost City Arts, 212/375-0500, lostcityarts.com.
Accessory by fireplace ("Nantucket Driftwood Bowl" #5410): Arteriors Home, 877/488-8866, arteriorshome.com.
Pillow fabrics ("Maestro"/Hyacinth #15395-618; "Glowby"/Aegean #15398-246, with custom embroidery): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Inset of pillows—Pillows, from back ("Annette"/Pool #15396-439 paired with "Glowby"/Aegean #15398-246; "Giverney"/Buttercup #21009-610; "Maestro"/Hyacinth 315395-618); throw fabrics ("Lucchese"/Dove #15381-159 with trim in "Feline"/Aegean #15371-246): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Pool house exterior—Panel fabric ("Pavilion Sunbrella Stripe Outdoor Fabric" #15353-18): Duralee, 800/275-3872, duralee.com.
Plants and planters: Scarsella's Flowers Greenhouses & Home, 516/692-6222, scarsellas.com.
Inset of greenery—Succulents and vessels; stone objects: Scarsella's Flowers Greenhouses & Home, 516/692-6222, scarsellas.com.
Inset of bag, beige—Tote bag ("EKB Custom Tote Bag"); tote-bag fabric ("Katura"/Dove #15382-159, by Eileen Kathryn Boyd for Duralee): Eileen Kathryn Boyd Interiors, 631/427-6400, ekbinteriors.com.
Inset of stones—Stones ("Danish Sea Stones"): Lost City Arts, 212/375-0500. lostcityarts.com.
Inset of chandelier—Chandelier Chandelier ("1960s Murano Chandelier"): Lost City Arts, 212/375-0500, lostcityarts.com.
Brian Brady & Franco Biscardi, Pool House Rec Room
Designers Brian Brady and Franco Biscardi channeled every teenager's dream room when piecing together the pool house rec room. Sculptural furnishings in the lounging area and a sectional sofa provide seating, while iconic pop images hang on the wall.
Handcrafted Ping-Pong and foosball tables mix with head-turning modern art like this overscaled orange resin popsicle.
This room gives guests the freedom to relax, be themselves, and be as free-spirited as they desire, without disturbing anyone else," says designer Franco Biscardi.
Interior designers: Brian Brady and Franco Biscardi, Brady Design, 22 Main St., Southampton, NY 11968; 631/283-3111, bbradydesign.com.
Pool house—Sectional Sofa (custom, by Brian Brady, made to order): Brady Design, 631/283-3111, bbradydesign.com.
Sofa fabric (raw silk, from China): designer's collection. Green-patterned pillows ("Sahara"/Jungle Green on Tint #AC107-32, by Alan Campbell); brown-patterned pillows ("Ferns Uni"/Cinnamon on Tint #AC101-38, by Alan Campbell); orange-patterned pillows ("Edo Grande"/Orange on Tint #3070-07): Quadrille Wallpapers & Fabrics, 212/753-2995, quadrillefabrics.com.
End tables (Wormley for Dunbar, American, c. 1960): vintage.
Ceramic table lamps: R.E. Steele Antiques, 631/324-7812, resteele.1stdibs.com. Vinyl wall covering ("Bamboo Forest"): Phillip Jeffries Ltd., 973/575-5414, phillipjeffries.com.
Rug: Carpet Man, 631/283-0885, thecarpetman.net.
Shades (bamboo reed): Hartmann & Forbes, 888/582-8780, hfshades.com.
Wire chair ("Pigalle Lounge Chair"); coffee table/ottoman ("Capsule Ottoman"): Janus et Cie, 212/752-1117, janusetcie.com.
Industrial pendant: Laurin Copen Antiques, 631/537-2802, laurincopenantiques.com.
Photograph (The Day the Factory Died: Raquel Welsh 2010 + Marlon Brando, Brigitte Bardot, Marlon Brando on Motorcycle, by Christophe Von Hohenberg): Keszler Gallery, 212/774-1906, keszlergallery.com.
Toward bar—Bamboo bar, bar stools (courtesy of Tom Samet): vintage. Lucite coffee table ("Peekaboo Coffee Table"): CB2, 800/606-6252, cb2.com.
Lamp on bar (vintage): designer's collection.
Popcorn bowl: Laurin Copen Antiques, 631/537-2802, laurincopenantiques.com. Painting of Rolling Stones (Sympathy for the Devil #2): Boltax Gallery, 631/7749-4062, boltaxgallery.com.
Painting behind designers (Leaps Tall Buildings, by Peter Buchman, acrylic on wood, spray paint, resin): Sara Nightingale Gallery, 631/793-2256, saranightingale.com.
Toward art—Art of popsicle (Here Todady, Gone Tomorrow, fiberglass, wood and paint, 2010, by Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers): Dean Project Gallery, 212/229-2017, deanproject.com.
Beer pong table: designer's collection. Painted by Maggie O'Toole, through Brady Design, 631/283-3111, bbradydesign.com.
Judy Hadlock, Rear Terrace
A welcoming palette of soft mauves and grays mixed in with a Victorian iron bench and new sculptural pieces sets the tone of this rear terrace designed by Judy Hadlock.
"The concept was to have a place to greet the morning and bid the night farewell," says designer Judy Hadlock of her rear terrace.
Interior designer: Judy Hadlock for Old Town Crossing, 46 Main St., Southampton, NY 11968; 631/283-7740, oldtowncrossing.com.
Rear terrace—Iron settee (antique); seat cushions, pillows (Outdoor Fabrics by Chella); end table by settee (stone-topped end table, Belgium); wood chair by settee (silvered teak chair); pair of chairs (iron); bar cart (antique, France, 1880, with original mercury glass); area rug (custom): Old Town Crossing, 631/283-7740, oldtowncrossing.com.
Chair with oval open-work back (custom); high-backed chair (custom); coffee table (custom); round end table by oval-backed chair (custom); tall console table (custom): from Handcrafted Iron Line, Old Town Crossing, 631/283-7740, oldtowncrossing.com.
Umbrella: Hildreth's, 631/259-8888, hildreths.com.
Kerry Delrose, Pool Terrace
Kerry Delrose designed what is arguably the most popular space in the showhouse: the pool terrace. Comfy seating and white canvas umbrellas by Gloster Furniture urge guests to put up their feet and 7-foot-tall lanterns encourage late-night swims.
Bold Trina Turk blue-and-orange hued fabrics dress the pillows and furniture perfectly for taking in pool views.
"We wanted the pool terrace to be fresh and stylish, but still comfortable," says designer Kerry Delrose.
Interior designer: Kerry Delrose, Delrose Design Group, 212/593-8081, delrosedesigngroup.com.
Pool terrace—Armchairs ("Havana Deep Seating Armchairs"); sofas ("Havana"); tables ("Havana Round Conversation Table"); parasols ("Large Parasols"/White Canvas): Gloster Furniture Inc., 434/575-1003, gloster.com.
Sofa-cushion fabric ("Soleil L.A. Print"/Aqua #174730); orange pillow, plain ("Caribe"/Tangerine #51692); turquoise pillow, plain ("Caribe"/Lagoon #51694); patterned pillow on sofa ("St. Tropez"/Mango #62903); striped fabric for chair cushions ("Doppler"/Sorbet #62913); throw pillows in armchairs ("Sunglass Print"/Pool #174293, and "Sunglass Print"/Orange #174292, by Trina Turk): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
White molded floor lamp ("In/Out Floor Lamp"): Hinson Lighting through Donghia, 212/935-3713, hinsonlighting.com.
Extra large nickel-plated lanterns: Homenature, 631/287-6277, homenature.com. Stone bench seat; dark brown planters; stone console table; wire sculptural ball; large stone star: Mecox Gardens, 631/287-5015, mecoxgardens.com.
More 2011 Hampton Designer Showhouse
A special thank-you to the showhouse sponsors: Benjamin Moore, Bevolo, California Closets, Century, Circa Lighting, Georg Jensen, Gloster, Hickory Chair, Lillian August, Mirage Floors, and Schumacher.
Be sure to also tour the showhouse's first floor as well as the second floor.


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Oh.My.God. I have been reading about Barney Butter on various blogs over the past few months and didn't really think much of it. I had tried almond butter in the past and while it was good, it didn't really "do it" for me. I liked my Peanut Butter & Co Dark Chocolate Dreams as my "go-to" PB. But, what put me over the edge into the "I have got to try this" category was a free shipping special that I saw advertised on Hangry Pants a few weeks back. All I had to do was enter a code and order 2 jars and I got the free shipping. Since you can't find this in local stores, at least here in Ohio, I went for it. Boy, I am NOT sorry in the least! Now I see what all the fuss is about. Wow!! I am in love!! Not only does this product say "Gluten-Free" on the label, but it has the about the same calories and MORE fiber than the PB I had been eating daily for breakfast.
So, instead of my Dark Chocolate Dreams on my rice cakes in the morning, I have been having the BB with some blueberry fruit spread. I also had it on a Van's Wheat Free Waffle yesterday with the blueberry spread for a snack….OMG…that was delightful!
Verdict…try this if you get a chance. A little pricey, but a great treat every once in a while if you can afford it (and hide it from the kids or don't let them try it to start with 😉 ). I don't have anything bad to say about this stuff at all, except that I wish one of my local stores carried it. Maybe I can call Raisin Rack & see if they would get it in for me?? Hmmmm……
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CG History
Coast Guard History
The Coast Guard is really an amalgamation of five formerly distinct federal services. The following timeline reflects the establishment of those services and when they became part of what is now the United States Coast Guard.
- 7 August 1789 The service, eventually to be known as the US Lighthouse Service, was established under the control of the Treasury Department (1 Stat. L. 53)
- 4 August 1790 Congress passed 1 Stat. L. 145, 175 creating a service to enforce customs laws. Alternately known as the system of cutters, Revenue Service, and Revenue-Marine this service would officially be named the Revenue Cutter Service (12 Stat. L., 639) in 1863. This service was placed under the control of the Treasury Department.
- 7 July 1838 Service to provide better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam is established under the control of the Justice Department(5 Stat., L. 304). This service later became the Steamboat Inspection Service.
- 14 August 1848 Congress appropriates funds to pay for life-saving equipment to be used by volunteer organizations (9 Stat. L. 321, 322).
- 30 August 1852 Steamboat Act established Steamboat Inspection Service under the control of the Treasury Department (10 Stat. L., 1852).
- 18 June 1878 U.S. Life-Saving Service established as a separate agency under the control of the Treasury Department (20 Stat. L., 163).
- 5 July 1884 Bureau of Navigation established under the control of the Treasury Department (23 Stat., L. 118).
- 14 February 1903 Department of Commerce and Labor is created (32 Stat. L., 825). Bureau of Navigation and the Steamship Inspection Service transferred to new department.
- 28 January 1915 Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service combined to form the Coast Guard (38 Stat. L., 800).
- 6 April 1917 With the declaration of war against Germany the Coast Guard was transferred by Executive Order to the control of the Navy Department.
- 28 August 1919 Coast Guard reverted to Treasury Department with President Wilsons Executive Order 3160.
- 30 June 1932 Steamboat Inspection Service and Bureau of Navigation combined to form the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection (47 Stat. L., 415). The new agency remained under Commerce Department control.
- 27 May 1936 Public Law 622 reorganizes and changes the name of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection Service to Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (49 Stat. L., 1380). The Bureau remained under Commerce Department control.
- 1 July 1939 Lighthouse Service became part of the Coast Guard (53 Stat. L. 1432).
- 1 November 1941 President Roosevelts Executive Order 8929 transferred the Coast Guard to Navy Department control.
- 28 February 1942 Executive Order 9083 transferred Bureau of Marine Inspection temporarily to the Coast Guard under Navy Department control.
- 1 January 1946 In compliance with Executive Order 9666, the Coast Guard returned to Treasury Department control.
- 16 July 1946 Pursuant to Executive Order 9083 and Reorganization Plan No. 3 the Bureau of Marine Inspection was abolished and became a permanent part of the Coast Guard under Treasury Department control.
- 1 April 1967 Executive Order 167-81 transferred Coast Guard to the newly-formed Department of Transportation.


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Clinton Library - ArtworkView all artwork in Sno-Isle Libraries
The Storyteller
A bronze rabbit with its arms outstretched is telling a story to three bronze squirrels. Georgia Gerber, born in 1955, grew up in Chester County, Pa. She studied sculpture and bronze casting at Bucknell University, and attended graduate school at the University of Washington. Georgia lives on Whidbey Island, Wash. She and her husband operate their own studio and foundry in Clinton. She primarily works with life size animal and human figures, often incorporating architectural or abstract elements into the design. A career emphasis has been the creation of accessible public artwork that encourages viewer interaction.
|History / Background:
|This sculpture, dedicated to all who enjoy the Clinton Library, is a gift from Eric and Linda Falken and the Library's many generous friends. The Falken's contribution is in memory of Eric's aunt, Edith Falkenstein, a dedicated children's librarian for 42 years.
|Installation Date:
|September 2007
|Funding Source:
|Eric and Linda Falken and community donations.


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Katherine Willow says: "This is my beautiful Blue Crowned Conure, Marcello Demitri, testing out a new hat. He's a wonderful bird, and without him I honestly don't know where I would be right now, he's helped me through so much and can always make me smile after a tedious day."
Take a bow Marcello! You look smashing in your new hat and have made us all smile.
Do you have a squee pet that you want to share with the world? Send us your pet pictures and stories, and they could end up on Daily Squee!


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She may be a MILF but you would never know it from how she acts. Penny Barber is the ultimate brat; mouthy and willful no matter what is happening to her body. Well, we'll see if some time getting double teamed with cock will take her down a peg. We'll see how much talking she does with 10 inches of Big Black Cock shoved down her throat. We'll fuck the sass out of her....
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I am interested in improving this plot:
which I produced with the following command:
dat // ListContourPlot[#, ContourShading -> False,
ContourStyle -> ColorData[10] /@ Range[10], Contours -> Range[21]/8,
ContourLabels -> None, FrameLabel -> {x, y},
DataRange -> {{-7, 2}, {-15, 15}}, PlotLabel -> "Contour plot of ϕ(x,y)"] &
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dat is available here; the edge corresponds to zero values (though, it could be set to something else).
I would like Mathematica to identify the edge of the contours and do a region plot to avoid the ragged line, or alternatively, to draw a thick line over it to make it publication-friendly.
I guess I know how to find the edge:
dat2 = dat // Image // EdgeDetect // ImageData // Position[#, 1] & // Sort;
On the other hand, these points are not sorted correctly:
I supposed I could use 2D neighbours as a criterion for sorting, but I feel there is a smarter way to achieve my overall goal(?)


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Adds face on X Y plane in selected groups or components. Useful for imported 2D drawings to better see their position in 3D space.
Rotate entities freely around point. Fast rotation in 3 dimensions. Snap to edge from radius.
When cuts that aren't flat are desired the model can be manually divided into groups representing each side of the cuts. This script helps putting the cut geometry on its own layer so it can be hidden when the model as a whole is shown.
Toggle whether edges should break or not when drawn edge intersect another edge.
Deletes both the selection and all its bounding edges that doesn't bind anything else.
Splits every selected face to smaller ones and randomly moves around endpoints to make it look more like a natural terrain.
Finds groups and components only containing one layer, resets content to Layer0 and assign layer to container instead.
Moves the camera to look at the same object from the opposite side.
Saves all materials in model to external file so they can be added to another model. Useful to get all materials from master model into sub models for smaller parts.
Add all boolean rendering options to menu. Can be used to create custom shortcuts for e.g. toggling endpoints or color by layer.


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Great Southern Treasures
a region of Western Australia Explore the attractions
From mountain ranges to wide open spaces, from grand old homesteads to luxurious hotel suites, from mouth-watering fresh produce to award-winning wines, the Great Southern has something for everyone. Take the road less travelled and visit this incredible tourist destination on your next trip south from Perth.
June 2019
Escorted 4WD tours along the Holland Track from Albany via Broomehill & Hyden to Coolgardie & the goldfields.Discover More
May 30 to June 14
The Katanning Gallery is please to host an exhibition show casing the amazing work achieved at the Katanning Arts & Craft Society. Come in and see water colour paintings, pottery, quilt making, card making, jewellery, knitting and much more. All of it created here in Katanning by our local artists and crafts people. Inspired? There will also be an opportunity to join the society.Discover More
Explore the towns that lie within the Great Southern region, and discover the diverse attractions that make these places so special.


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Finance & Development, June 1990
- National Saving and the World Economy
- Long-term Macroeconomic Effects of Aging Populations
- Why has US Personal Saving Declined?
- Lower Birth Rates = Higher Saving in LDCs
- Why Saving Fell in the Nordic Countries
- Why Are Saving and Investment Rates Correlated Across Countries?
- Mobilizing Resources for IDA: The Ninth Replenishment
- Managing the Debt Crisis in the 1990s
- Stages in the Recovery of Latin America's Growth
- The Changing Role of Macroeconomic Policies in China
- Why did the Italian Stabilization of 1947 Succeed?
- Do African Countries Pay More for Imports?
- The Growth of the Korean Capital Market
- After the Metals Market Boom
- International Migration: Who Goes Where?
- Private Investment Rebounds in Developing Countries
- Books
- Books in brief
- Letters
The Changing Role of Macroeconomic Policies in China
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
- Published Date:
- January 1990
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It wasn't long ago that U.S. Treasuries were considered a "risk-free" investment. But the financial crisis, hulking budget deficits, political gridlock, and the Standard & Poor's debt downgrade have changed that perception – forever .
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Since surging to a record high $1,917.90 an ounce earlier this month, the price of gold has slipped on profit taking. But don't let that minor correction fool you into thinking gold's bull run is over. The yellow metal's best days are still ahead.
How do I know? Because, unlike U.S. debt, gold can't be downgraded. It has inherent value that's more reliable than the word of even the most powerful country on earth.
Gold was used as currency for centuries. In fact, it's still being used for transactions in places such as China, India, and much of the Middle East – regions that are eager to diversify away from the beleaguered U.S. dollar.
But now gold's also usurping the role U.S. Treasuries have played for the better part of a century – that of the ultimate investment safe haven.
Just take a look.
The World's Real Risk-Free Investment
From July 21, 2009 to mid-July of this year, the correlation between Treasuries (as represented by the iShares 20-Year Treasury Bond ETF (NYSE: TLT)) and gold (as represented by the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (NYSE: GLD)) was 0.5 – meaning that only half the movement of one coincided with the other.
However, in the period ranging from July 21, 2011 to Aug. 16, 2011, the correlation jumped by 78% to 0.89. That means gold and 20-year Treasuries are moving in near- perfect lock step.
What's the catalyst for this shift? I believe traders are using gold to hedge their holdings against the systemic solvency risk of a global banking failure. Simply put, they're looking to cover their bets should the worst happen.
Far fetched? Not really.
If the banking system crashes, it will take the developed world's financial system down with it. And when that happens, it's very likely that cash withdrawals or cash transfers will be frozen, as will the credit markets.
Thus, gold may be one of the few assets that's still actively traded, meaning there's still an independent pricing mechanism in place.
You will, for example, be able to price gold at the local pawnshop – just as easily as you'll be able to cut a deal on the corner of the street (though hopefully not at gunpoint).
At an institutional level, this is already happening, albeit with a slightly different twist.
ICE Clear Europe Ltd. – a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (NYSE: ICE) and one of Europe's top derivatives- clearing companies – is accepting gold as trading collateral. Earlier this year, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) also started accepting gold as trading collateral.
The advantage gold offers is incontrovertible . Bonds – be they U.S. T reasuries or other types of securities – are limited by their sovereign backers. That means they are only as solid as the country that's backing them.
But that's not true of the yellow metal.
The lesson here is clear: You can't downgrade gold; and that makes it the world's only risk-free investment.
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Executive Summary
For years, liberal environmentalists have insisted that only tough regulations on economic activity can prevent the climate catastrophe of human-induced global warming. So far, these activists' biggest policy success has been the 1997 Kyoto Protocols, which would have forced the United States to cut industrial emissions to seven percent below 1990 levels, or 30 percent lower than current levels. But if the gloom-and-doom predictions of environmental activists' are exaggerated or wrong, such severe cutbacks — which would have increased energy prices and drastically reduced economic growth — are not necessary.
This debate has been going on for years, of course, but it moved to the fore this spring with President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto treaty and its onerous economic regulations. To judge the networks' reaction, the MRC's Free Market Project (FMP) reviewed all of the 51 global warming stories that aired on five early evening cable and broadcast news programs — ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, CNN's Inside Politics, the Fox News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume, and NBC Nightly News — from January 20 (Inauguration Day) through April 22 (Earth Day).
Major findings:
The view that human-induced global warming is leading to catastrophic climate change received six times as much attention as the views of scientific skeptics who argue that such gloom-and-doom scenarios are either exaggerated or wrong.
There were only seven references to the existence of global warming skeptics. Six of those were on the Fox News Channel, while the other was a single reference by a CNN correspondent to a statement by President Bush about "the incomplete state of scientific knowledge."
The three broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, totally excluded the views of global warming skeptics from their coverage.
In spite of unanimous opposition to the Kyoto treaty in the U.S. Senate, the networks provided Kyoto supporters with more than twice as much airtime as backers of Bush's decision to scrap the treaty (69% to 31%).
By a nearly two-to-one margin (65% to 35%), the networks also skewed the debate over Bush's decision not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions in favor of his critics.
Free market opponents of new restrictions on industrial activity such as those included in the Kyoto deal were outnumbered 20 to 3 by spokesmen for environmental groups, none of whom were ever labeled as "liberal."
By refusing to show any of the thousands of scientists who are skeptical of environmentalists' belief that only regulatory schemes such as the Kyoto Protocol could halt the climate damage they say is being caused by industrial burning of fossil fuels, the networks — apart from Fox News — made the President's actions appear to be short-sighted economic decisions based on unsound science. Furthermore, by showcasing the President's critics in the aftermath of each decision, these networks created the impression that Bush's actions were environmental errors, not reasonable policy choices.
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For years, liberal environmentalists have been insisting that only strict regulations on economic activity can prevent the climate catastrophe of global warming. According to their version of the global warming story, industrial burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil is filling the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The build-up of these gases would then increasingly trap heat from the Sun and cause the Earth's climate to warm dramatically, triggering drastic weather changes, including hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and severe coastal flooding, as the polar ice caps melt and raise ocean levels.
While such scary scenarios are unsettling, they are crucial to professional environmentalists' efforts to increase government regulations on private economic activity. Global warming activists' biggest policy success had been the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, an international agreement requiring developed countries to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases to levels five percent lower than where they stood in 1990. Because the United States is routinely branded the world's largest polluter, we were required to cut our emissions to seven percent lower than 1990 levels, or 30 percent below where they are today.
But environmentalists have been robbed of that victory, now that President Bush has refused to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants and then to not implement the Kyoto agreement reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Limiting emissions from power plants would drive up electricity costs even as the western U.S. is wrestling with a power crisis. The Kyoto deal which Bush rejected was forecast to "push up energy prices, inflation, and interest rates and lead to lower consumption, investment and net exports," according to a 1999 study by the Center for the Study of American Business.
Such painful steps would be unnecessary if the environmentalists' doomsday scenarios are exaggerated or wrong, and there are some good reasons to doubt their claims. Temperature data gathered by satellites and upper-atmosphere balloons have failed to show the same warming trend found by surface measurements taken over the past 20 years. The planet did warm by about 0.6° Celsius over the past 100 years, but that's only about half as much warming as should have occurred if the models which project severe warming for the next 100 years are correct. Given the uncertainty over long-term warming projections, a wide range of scientists and free market economists argue that the riskier approach is to enact severe economic rules now in order to limit greenhouse emissions which may not be a serious problem in the future.
This debate has been going on for years, of course, but it moved to the fore this spring with Bush's decisions against imposing new regulations on American industry. Fair and balanced reporting of these issues would have greatly aided the public's understanding and helped obtain informed support for whatever steps are ultimately chosen by policymakers. But a review of global warming coverage shows the news networks, with the exception of the Fox News Channel, have superficially presented only the global warming arguments of liberal environmentalists, and have heavily tilted their coverage to favor critics of the two Bush decisions.
The study by the MRC's Free Market Project (FMP) reviewed 51 stories1 on five early evening cable and broadcast news programs — ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, CNN's Inside Politics, the Fox News Channel's Special Report, and NBC Nightly News — from Inauguration Day (January 20) through Earth Day (April 22). Twenty of these were lengthy field reports that focused on global warming, while an additional 11 were brief anchor-read items. The researchers analyzed another 20 stories that were not specifically focused on the global warming debate, but which contained comments about Bush's actions on Kyoto, carbon dioxide regulations, or climate change in general.
Except on Fox News, No Debate Over Global Warming
Four years ago in "Facts Frozen Out," a Special Report by the MRC's Free Market Project, Timothy Lamer reported that an examination of ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC's coverage from 1993 to 1997 showed a wide majority of network news stories on global warming (81%) "simply assumed that science supports warming theories," and that any human-induced warming that might be forthcoming over the next century would be destructive.
Yet despite the obviously lopsided tilt in favor of those who argue that industrial emissions are causing catastrophic global warming, Lamer managed to find a handful of network stories that informed audiences about the many scientists who are skeptical of those theories. Now, four years later, experts who depart from liberal environmental orthodoxy have been completely erased from the picture at those same networks; only the Fox News Channel (which was not available for the previous study period) conveyed both sides of the global warming debate to viewers.
During the 2001 study period, FMP researchers catalogued 49 statements from network reporters or news sources either affirming liberal environmentalists' dire global warming scenarios or professing skepticism. Of those, 86 percent expressed the view that climate change was a real threat, compared with only 14 percent — just seven statements — that challenged that assumption.
But six of those seven statements were on the Fox News Channel. (See chart.) Looking only at ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC — the four networks that were included in the 1997 study — a nearly unanimous 97 percent of all comments reflected just the liberal side of the global warming debate. ABC, CBS and NBC totally excluded skeptics from their coverage during the study period, while the only hint CNN gave that science had not yet settled all of the key questions was on March 14, when environmental correspondent Natalie Pawelski cited a statement from President Bush in which he referred to "the incomplete state of scientific knowledge" of the causes and solutions to global warming.
Pushing the premise that the regulation of industrial emissions is the only way to avoid more climate damage, CBS's John Roberts opened his March 28 story on Bush's Kyoto decision by summoning images of weather disasters: "Global temperatures on the rise, glaciers retreating, storms more frequent and severe — a looming crisis, say many scientists, of the greenhouse effect. Yet, claiming potential harm to the economy, the White House today confirmed it will abandon the global accord to curb emissions of carbon dioxide, the number one greenhouse gas."
Even in stories that were not focused on the politics of global warming, reporters asserted the environmentalists' line on global warming. On April 13, for instance, CNN's Jonathan Karl reported on new technology that reduces the amount of "traditional" pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide, that are emitted when coal is burned. But, Karl explained, "what most concerns environmentalists now about coal power is carbon dioxide, or CO2, the gas that causes global warming....Coal can be made to burn cleaner, but it will still be a leading contributor to global warming."
In a March 29 report, CBS's Mark Phillips peddled environmentalists' fears as fact and wrongly labeled greenhouse gases as pollutants: "Other [critics] point to severe weather conditions around the planet: flooding, for the second consecutive year, in Mozambique; drought and famine in the Sudan. And, they say, the U.S. is substantially to blame. With only about four percent of the world's population, the United States famously produces about 25 percent of the world's harmful greenhouse gas pollution."
For the record, the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, is not a harmful pollutant, as Phillips claimed. As the science books they use in elementary schools explain, all green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere. Far from being dangerous, carbon dioxide is necessary for life to exist.
FNC was the only network to offer balanced coverage of these claims. Special Report anchor Brit Hume was alone in mentioning a Boston Globe item about the graduate class at Columbia Journalism School being taught by former Vice President Al Gore. Hume reported that Gore "suggested that they [the students] should ignore the views of scientists who have questioned the dire global warming forecasts which, Gore says, have been accepted, quote, 'by the vast majority of the world's scientists.'... Students said after the class that Gore had suggested it was a cop-out for journalists to include such skeptical views in their coverage of global warming." (With Real Video)
Presumably, most network reporters have not had the benefit of Gore's tutoring, but their one-sided coverage seems to indicate that they nonetheless agree with the former Vice President. In contrast to much of the media's unanimity, many thousands of scientists reject the view that severe global warming is a settled fact and that immediate changes are needed to end mankind's destructive influence on the environment. The state climatologist of Oregon, George Taylor, publicly wrote about his increasing doubts about the need for strict new regulations. His comments were posted on the January 14, 2000 edition of junkscience.com:
Ten years ago, I believed the [climate] modelers that global warming was a serious problem that needed attention and intervention. As I studied the issue year by year, I became less and less convinced that the "problem" was truly serious. My current bottom line: while human activities doubtless influence climate (on a local, regional, and even a global scale), the human-induced climate change from expected increases in greenhouse gases will be a rather small fraction of the natural variations. I don't foresee global warming causing big problems. I believe if we controlled every molecule of human emissions we would still see substantial climate change, just as we always have.
Since the Kyoto treaty was signed in December 1997, more than 17,000 scientists — including more than 2,600 physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers and environmental scientists — signed a petition stating that there "is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing, or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate." But not one of these scientists was ever shown on ABC, CBS, CNN or NBC, which instead led audiences to believe that the scientific debate about the causes and extent of global warming was over.
All Gloom and Doom Forecasts
In his book, The Costs of Kyoto, Fred Smith of the Competitiveness Enterprise Institute noted that if there is indeed a shift towards warming, "it will largely occur at night, in the winter, and at higher latitudes. Such a warming pattern would lengthen growing seasons and, by reducing temperature variations over time, tend to reduce extreme weather events. Furthermore, higher levels of carbon dioxide increase plant growth and thus increase agricultural production."
University of Virginia climatologist Patrick Michaels made the same point in testimony before the House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs in 1999. Michaels recounted that global temperatures rose by about 0.6" Celsius (or 1" Fahrenheit) during the last century. "Crop yields quintupled. Life span doubled, in part because of better nutrition. Winters warmed. Growing seasons lengthened. The planet became greener. Increasing carbon dioxide had something to do with each and every one of these," Michaels explained. "There is simply no reason to assume that doing the same, this time in 50, instead of 100 years, will have any different effect in kind."
But the notion that global warming could be anything but the disaster predicted by the environmental establishment was completely ignored on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, whose coverage of this aspect of global warming during the time period covered by the study focused on a sensational summary of a much longer United Nations report predicting catastrophic climate changes in the next 100 years.
NBC's Tom Brokaw offered only the most extreme scenario on January 22: "A new report from a United Nations conference says that global temperatures could rise as much as 10 degrees this century. That's the biggest rate of change in the climate in 10,000 years." On the February 19 CBS Evening News, reporter Byron Pitts cast climate catastrophe as just retribution: "This is punishment, say scientists, for sins of the past, the end result of years of pollution....In the Midwest, deadly heat waves and severe droughts. And in the Northeast, what is now precious waterside property could one day be underwater. Scientists say it's no longer a matter of if, but when."
With the exception of the Fox News Channel, the networks treated the U.N.'s "Summary for Policymakers" as above reproach. "Because it's a sensitive issue, government representatives went over it line by line," explained ABC's Peter Jennings on February 19, adding that the report predicted "more freak weather changes, including cyclones, drought and floods, massive displacement of populations." But Jennings didn't need to be convinced by the U.N. — four days earlier, the ABC anchor had relayed without challenge the claims of the World Wildlife Fund that global warming is melting ice caps in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, threatening to flood villages. "The Wildlife Fund calls it a time bomb," Jennings intoned.
The Fox News Channel's David Schuster was the only reporter who did not present the U.N. report as a call to action. Schuster uniquely pointed out the politics behind the U.N. paper: "The report comes just two months after international negotiations on industrial emissions broke down and, with U.N. scientists openly admitting they're trying to get everybody back to the negotiating table, critics of the report are having a field day, claiming the numbers have been cooked." Schuster then quoted climatologist Richard Lindzen, who participated in the U.N. process but who argued that the summary was highly exaggerated. "It came from having scenarios with horrific and unimaginable emissions and putting them in the most sensitive [climate] model," Lindzen said.
Another American scientist who participated in the creation of the U.N. report also repudiated the spin of the "Summary for Policymakers." Dr. John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, told the London Times on February 20 that "there are 245 different results in that report, and this was the worst-case scenario. It's the one that was not going to happen. It was the extreme case of all the different things that can make the world warm."
But network correspondents seem truly convinced by environmentalists' gloomy global warming forecasts. A Nexis search revealed an interesting exchange on CBS's The Early Show on April 18, just before Earth Day. During "co-op time" — a discussion among the CBS morning personalities made available to those few stations that don't offer local news during scheduled breaks, host Bryant Gumbel asked if the rest of his show colleagues believed in global warming; all affirmed that they did. While not included in this study of evening news programs, the Early Show conversation revealed both an unquestioning belief in the assertions made by some of the most fervent global warming activists, and horror that President Bush would pursue any policies that were not endorsed by liberal environmental activists. (See box).
Genuine disagreement within the scientific community exists about whether anything human beings are doing is really changing the planet's climate and whether such changes would be positive, neutral or negative. For reporters, the most basic requirement is to report on all sides of a debate. While FNC fulfilled that expectation, the three broadcast networks did not, since not one of the global warming stories they produced this year even hinted at the existence of climate scientists skeptical of catastrophic global warming, let alone offered viewers a chance to hear their contrary views.
Scolding Bush on Carbon Dioxide and Kyoto
In addition to their nearly complete one-sidedness on the scientific questions, the networks also heavily skewed the debate over President Bush's global warming policies in favor of his environmental critics. The President's first major decision, announced on March 13, was his refusal to include carbon dioxide among a list of gases whose emissions would be strictly regulated by the government. The Bush administration cited a study conducted by the Department of Energy last year when Bill Clinton was President; that report concluded that such rules "would lead to considerably higher energy prices for consumers." ABC and FNC mentioned the Energy Department study in their coverage, while CBS, CNN and NBC did not.
On the March 14 Evening News, CBS's Dan Rather darkly hinted that the decision was rooted in campaign cash, not the national interest: "President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big-money contributors, big-time lobbyists and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened."
Overall, the networks gave critics of Bush's anti-regulatory stance twice as much airtime as supporters. Only FNC and CNN showed soundbites from individuals other than Bush administration officials supporting the decision not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. When all statements from reporters and sources are considered, the three broadcast networks offered the most skewed coverage, where Bush's critics outnumbered supporters by a nearly three-to-one ratio. Those who wanted more regulation also dominated CNN's coverage, although by less than a two-to-one margin, while FNC's presentation was the most balanced. (See chart at right.)
After the President's decision on the Kyoto Protocols was announced, only CNN and FNC informed viewers that Bush's decision was more of a formality than a radical break from past policies. "Only one nation has ratified that treaty," CNN's Candy Crowley explained on March 28, "and in 1997 the U.S. Senate signaled unanimously it wouldn't agree to it anyway."
But NBC's Campbell Brown ignored those facts, instead trumpeting that "the outcry over the President's decision on global warming is not just coming from Democrats but also U.S. allies, and the President is expected to hear more complaints tomorrow when he meets with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder."
On this issue, the networks were tilted even more in favor of Bush's critics. CNN was the most balanced, followed by FNC, which gave Kyoto proponents twice as much airtime as Bush supporters. Once again, however, the three broadcast networks were the most one-sided, showing a total of 14 condemnations of Bush's decision on Kyoto compared to only 4 positive statements. (See chart on right.)
One reason the debate on both of Bush's decisions was so lopsided: pro-regulatory comments from environmental activists vastly outnumbered statements from free market opponents of new restrictions on economic activity. While the number of quotes from Congressional Democratic critics roughly equaled statements from Bush and other administration officials, representatives from environmental groups — such as the Wilderness Society, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Environmental Trust — were shown 20 times, compared to just three soundbites from two conservative groups, the Competitiveness Enterprise Institute and the industry-backed Global Climate Coalition.
The environmentalists featured by the networks were uniformly critical of Bush's actions. For example, the CBS Evening News on March 29 showed Robert Higman of the group Friends of the Earth claiming, "What we're seeing here is oil man Bush putting his, the interests of his particular backers — Exxon Oil Corporation and other fossil fuel producers — over and above the interests of the U.S. economy, over and above the interests of the people of the world at large, and over and above the future of the planet." On March 14, a story by reporter Brian Wilson on FNC's Special Report showed Dan Becker of the Sierra Club protesting that "the polluters got what they paid for in electing President Bush."
However, that same story by FNC's Wilson also showed Myron Ebell, a representative of the free market Competitiveness Enterprise Institute, explaining the Bush administration's reasoning: "They realized with the new information from the Department of Energy that [the carbon dioxide regulations] will be extremely expensive and that it would eat up between 35 and 70 percent of the tax cut."
While the Fox News Channel offered a balance of praise and criticism for Bush's position, CBS chose to just pile on the criticism. In his March 29 report, correspondent Mark Phillips quoted an official of Britain's Labor government who joined in Higman's complaining of Bush's Kyoto decision: "This short-termism and this isolationism is profoundly flawed and misplaced." (With Real Video)
The President's policy choices were also criticized as political errors. "The Bush administration is looking for ways to clean up its image," CNN's Candy Crowley reported on April 3, "following a series of high-profile decisions on the environment involving carbon dioxide, arsenic levels in water, and an international treaty on global warming, all decisions criticized as hostile to the environment." Crowley found a former Bush aide, Ed Gillespie, who she said agreed with the point that the political rollout of Bush's policy decisions wasn't well organized. But Gillespie's sound bite made a different point: "The liberal side and some of their charges, some of which were unfounded and false, got out ahead of us."
Indeed, those liberal critics of the President's global warming policies were granted favored access to the airwaves in the wake of each of those decisions, while scientists who supported Bush's anti-regulatory stance were not. In a letter to the Wall Street Journal published April 19, Frederick Seitz, a past president of the National Academy of Sciences and current chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute, commended Bush's decision to scrap the Kyoto Protocols.
"The science of global warming tells us this self-inflicted economic damage is unnecessary," wrote Seitz. "According to enhanced greenhouse effect theory, when CO2 in the atmosphere increases, the earth's atmosphere always warms more rapidly than the surface. But actual temperature measurements show the atmosphere is not warming more than the surface; in fact, there has been no significant atmospheric temperature change over the last two or three decades."
Similarly, climatologist Fred Singer, head of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, praised Bush's rejection of environmentalists' demands for greater regulations. In a column published in Canada's National Post on March 17, Singer wrote:
Scientists skeptical of the science behind the Kyoto Protocol were greatly encouraged by the statement in Mr. Bush's letter that the science of global warming is "incomplete," by which he meant that it was insufficient as a basis for taking action. This is a position that many of us have maintained for some years, pointing out that the actual observations do not support the climate models that predict a strong warming in the future
The evidence against a warming trend is overwhelming: Weather satellite observations, the only truly global measurements, independently confirmed by weather balloon data, show little if any rise in mean temperature. The well-maintained network of U.S. stations, after removal of urban heat-island effects, shows no appreciable rise since about 1940! Non-thermometer data from various "proxies," like tree rings, ice cores, ocean sediments, etc., all show no warming trend in the past 60 years.
Yet neither Singer nor Seitz nor any other scientist who disagreed with the environmental establishment was given a chance to lend their weight to the point of view that neither the carbon dioxide rules and the Kyoto limits on emissions were foolish restrictions that would harm Americans' standard of living for no good reason. Instead, the networks gave favored treatment to environmental critics complaining about Bush's decisions, and then blamed the President for the damage to his image.
"Fairly or unfairly," Dan Rather told viewers of the April 17 CBS Evening News, "critics of President Bush's environmental policy believe the only green policy he's displayed is the color of big business money." The story, by John Roberts, explained how the President's image came to be tarnished: "Activists have pummeled him for diluting rules on arsenic levels in drinking water and abandoning curbs on carbon dioxide emissions."
Many independent scientists and free market economists would have argued that Bush's decision to spare the United States the heavy costs of the Kyoto Protocols was neither a policy error nor a political error, but was in fact a reasonable and meritorious act. The heavy tilt of the coverage in favor of Bush's critics created the misleading impression that his anti-regulatory steps had few supporters outside of the ranks of his own government, when in fact the U.S. Senate's unanimous (95-0) rejection of Kyoto's main elements indicated that his opposition to the treaty was more "mainstream" than the environmentalists' support for it.
Recommendations For the Networks
With the exception of the Fox News Channel, the networks stacked the deck when it came to this year's debate over global warming policy. By refusing to show any skeptics or critics of environmentalists' belief that only regulatory schemes such as the Kyoto Protocol could halt the climate damage they say is being caused by industrial emissions of greenhouse gases, the President's actions seemed (at best) to be short-sighted, unscientific decisions designed to offer near-term economic benefits at the risk of long-term harm to the climate. By showcasing the President's critics in the aftermath of each decision, the networks created the impression that Bush's actions were environmental errors, not reasonable policy choices.
By revealing the existence of scientists and other experts who disagree with the liberal environmental orthodoxy on global warming, the Fox News Channel was different. As a network, FNC was hardly an apologist for the Bush administration; like the others, FNC gave more airtime to environmentalists who were critical of the President's anti-regulatory moves. But on the other networks, the theory of human-induced global warming was undisputed; on FNC, it was more properly treated as just another opinion that had supporters and opponents.
Here are just three steps that the networks could take which would improve future coverage of this important issue:
Because the political and economic debate over global warming policy is also a scientific debate, the networks need to tell viewers about scientific findings and arguments that cast doubt on environmentalists' global warming theories. When reporters pretend that science has settled every important question about human effects on long-term climate, they are being more than superficial — they are twisting the facts to favor one side of the policy debate over the other.
Include all salient facts. Environmentalists were given considerable airtime to attack President Bush's decision that the United States would not implement the Kyoto agreement, but ABC, CBS and NBC never balanced those attacks by telling viewers that Kyoto has essentially been a dead deal for the past several years. Instead of helping these activists frame the issue in a way that helped their side, network correspondents need to make sure that viewers have all of the necessary background information they need to judge the merits of both sides' arguments.
Balance the comments of environmental activists with the views of free market experts. One major reason why the network coverage of this debate was so heavily lopsided was because pro-regulation activists outnumbered conservative experts by 20 to 3. Network news is supposed to inform viewers about all major points of view on public issues, not serve as a public relations office for the environmental movement. The networks need to do a better job of reporting the views of free market experts — and stop giving liberal environmentalists a free ride.
1CNN's Inside Politics and FNC's Special Report were selected for inclusion in the study because they provided regular coverage of political issues, making them the cable programs most similar to the early evening news broadcast offered on ABC, CBS and NBC. To further ensure direct comparability, unique features of the cable programs — journalist roundtables and lengthy interviews with newsmakers — were excluded from the study, which only examined traditional field reports and anchor-read briefs.


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Randy Monroe has resigned as head men's basketball coach at UMBC, effective immediately, Director of Athletics Dr. Charles Brown announced today. Aki Thomas, who has served the five previous seasons on the Retriever basketball staff, has been named acting head coach for the 2012-13 campaign.
UMBC will be actively evaluating the men's basketball program to determine its future direction.
Monroe completed eight seasons (2004-2012) as head coach at UMBC after spending the previous ten seasons as an assistant coach with the Retrievers. He led UMBC to its lone America East Conference title and NCAA Tournament appearance in the 2007-08 campaign as the Retrievers finished with a school record 24 (24-9) victories.
Monroe directed the third-most games (245) of any head coach in the 45-year history of UMBC men's basketball and finished with a career mark of 85-160.
"We appreciate all that Coach Monroe did for our basketball program and our community during his long tenure at UMBC," Dr. Brown said. "We wish him nothing but success in his future endeavors."
Thomas came to UMBC in the summer of 2007 and has been a member of the Retriever coaching staff for five previous seasons. The New York, N.Y. native was also serving as the staff's recruiting coordinator.
He had previously worked as an assistant coach at Howard University from 2004-07.
"Aki brings an excellent playing and coaching background to the position," Dr. Brown said. "He has strong communication skills and will fit into our program in a very positive way. I am confident that he will be able to support our student-athletes during this time of transition. I am excited about this year's men's basketball team and feel that we can compete for the America East Conference title."
Thomas, age 33, played professionally in Venezuela before accepting the position at Howard under then-head coach Frankie Allen. Prior to that, Thomas was a standout for the Bison in 2000-01, when he helped lead the team to an 18-13 mark and the finals of the MEAC Tournament. Thomas averaged almost 12 points and eight rebounds per game en route to being named to the All-MEAC second team.
Before Howard, Thomas played for three seasons at the University of Colorado. His tenure with the Buffaloes was highlighted by a selection to the All-Tournament Team of the 1998 Puerto Rico Shootout. He was a member of a pair of CU teams which earned berths to the NIT, and he was selected to the Commissioner's Big 12 All-Academic Team.
Thomas was a two-time league rebounding champion in the Venezuelan LPB League (2003-04) and earned the same title during a stint in the Colombian Federation Cup League (2004). He played his prep ball at New York city's Manhattan Center, where he was selected All-City his junior and senior seasons. He was also named Manhattan PSAL Player of the Year and Honorable Mention All-America during his senior campaign.
Thomas received his degree in sociology from Howard in 2002. He married the former Gayna Lacy in 2009 and the couple welcomed a son, Lexington Luther in September of 2011. The Thomases reside in Laurel, Md.