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Executive Summary
We would like to think that the Cold War is over. But for the people of communist Cuba and the people who've fled it, the Cold War remains. In all of the coverage and controversy over the arrival and seizure of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, the media have taken the stark contrast between American liberty and Cuban tyranny and muddled it to the point that much of the American public thinks Cuba is no different than America, or worse, that Cuba is better than America. The Media Research Center has compiled a record showing how the national media built the public-relations rationale for Elian's eventual return to Cuba, and then justified the government raid on a private residence to insure a political victory for the Clinton administration and the communist regime of Cuba. Is it any wonder that the public told network pollsters that they approved of the seizure of Elian after being barraged with liberal arguments? Analysts identified four patterns of distinct liberal media bias:
1. The news media have deliberately undermined the moral legitimacy of Elian's Miami relatives specifically and anti-communist Cuban-Americans in general.
2. The news media have consistently praised the actions and "achievements" of Fidel Castro's Cuba, claimed it was better for children than America, and played up the paradise Elian could dwell in among the Communist Party elite.
3. The news media have justified Attorney General Janet Reno's actions and arguments, and lamented any resistance or delay in returning Elian to Cuba.
4. The news media have dismissed congressional criticism of the INS raid and calls for investigation as unpopular and unnecessary.
If the media were interested in a balanced presentation of the Elian controversy, they would have scrutinized the administration more than justified it; they would have explained the regimented reality of family life in Cuba; they would have balanced their questioning of the motivations of Elian's Miami relatives by questioning the motives of the reunification camp; and they would have encouraged more discussion and oversight instead of trying to cut it off.
Related videos:
The MRC's Tim Graham appeared on FNC's The Edge with Paula Zahn on June 5 to discuss Elian coverage
U.S. Rep. Ros-Lehtinen invited colleagues to learn about the MRC's Special Report on biased coverage of Elian.
Introduction:The Cold War Is Over, Thank Goodness
To the national media, the Cold War has long been over, and is best forgotten. But for those still living under communism in Cuba, the Cold War remains. When Elian Gonzalez was rescued last fall from a deadly boat ride that claimed his mother's life, the media grasped the dramatic possibilities of his rescue, but had no grasp of the political possibilities his mother had sought for her son.
Instead, reporters replayed an old soundtrack, as if the Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe had never collapsed; as if the suddenly liberated voices from behind the Iron Curtain hadn't declared their relief; as if the communist archives hadn't told telling tales of repression and subversion. Following the lead of thousands of predecessors, Elian and his mother boarded a rickety boat to leave Cuba behind in the hope for a life of liberty in the United States. As much as media coverage would insist the Elian dispute should not be politicized, this was a political act. But to the media, it was hysterical.
"In the end, the drama may reveal how fed up both societies are with the 'Dr. Strangelove' hysteria of U.S.-Cuba relations," declared Time Miami correspondent Tim Padgett. NBC reporter Jim Avila was perplexed by the escape: "Why did she [Elian's mother] do it? What was she escaping? By all accounts this quiet, serious young woman, who loved to dance the salsa, was living the good life, as good as it gets for a citizen in Cuba." Avila concluded that she'd made a terrible mistake in leaving: "An extended family destroyed by a mother's decision to start a new life in a new country, a decision that now leaves a little boy estranged from his father and forever separated from her."
In the interests of documenting national media trends from Elian's rescue at sea through the aftermath of the federal raid on the Miami home of Elian's Cuban American relatives, MRC media analysts compiled a record demonstrating how the national media built the public-relations rationale for Elian's eventual return to Cuba and then justified the government raid on a private residence to insure a political victory for the Clinton administration and the communist regime of Cuba. Analysts identified four patterns of distinct liberal media bias:
1.The news media have deliberately undermined the moral legitimacy of Elian's Miami relatives specifically and anti-communist Cuban-Americans in general.
Elian was rescued at sea on November 25, 1999. As the Elian story intensified during the five months of Elian's residence in Miami, the media crafted unfavorable images of "hard-line" Miami Cuban "zealots" who were excessively ideological, unlike the (unlabeled) liberals and Cuban communists insisting on an allegedly apolitical father-son reunion:
Newsweek's Joseph Contreras and Russell Watson were quick to recycle the communist spin on Miami's "extremist mafia," writing in the December 20, 1999 issue: "Castro claimed that the boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, had been offered $2 million by the 'extremist Cuban-American mafia' if he would move to Miami and live there with Elian."
CBS reporter Byron Pitts concluded his January 6 Evening News story by putting the burden for harming Elian Gonzalez on those who wish for him to stay in Florida: "Six weeks ago this community embraced a boy who had watched his mother die at sea. Tonight there is fear that embrace has become a choke hold."
NBC's Katie Couric championed the spin control of "some" people who wanted to suggest Miami was as tyrannical as Cuba, opening the April 3 Today: "Some suggested over the weekend that it's wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami. All eyes on south Florida and its image this morning. Another writer this weekend called it 'an out of control banana republic within America.' What effect is the Elian Gonzalez story having on perception of Miami? We will talk with a well-known columnist for the Miami Herald about that."
ABC's John Quinones also suggested on the April 4 World News Tonight that anti-communist Cuban-Americans had no tolerance for divergent opinions: "It seems like such a contradiction that Cubans, who profess a love of family and respect for the bond between father and son, would be so willing to separate Elian from his father. But in Miami it's impossible to overestimate how everything here is colored by a hatred of communism and Fidel Castro. It's a community with very little tolerance for those who might disagree."
Time's Tim Padgett threw out the old liberal "M" word in the April 10 issue: "ABC at first avoided showing the six-year-old saying he didn't want to go back to his father in Cuba—a statement that could have been coached. But Armando Gutierrez, the family spokesman and a veteran political operator with a heavy touch of Joe McCarthy in him, angrily accused ABC of reneging on a promise to broadcast that very statement. The next morning, the network aired it."
The New York Times headline on April 10 read: "Communism Still Looms as Evil to Miami Cubans. "Apparently, it's not evil any more at The New York Times.
CBS's Bryant Gumbel took to the soapbox on The Early Show April 14. He asked CBS News consultant Pam Falk: "Cuban-Americans, Ms. Falk, have been quick to point fingers at Castro for exploiting the little boy. Are their actions any less reprehensible?"
That same morning, Gumbel, the man who refused a reporter's request in May of 1992 to condemn the murderous Los Angeles riots, since "black people are being killed by the handfuls in that area on an ongoing basis, and basically America doesn't care," pressed Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to condemn Miami protests: "The Cuban-American community has been supporting clear disobedience of the law. How do you justify that?"
(Gumbel's distaste for Ros-Lehtinen came through much earlier, in a November 30 discussion during "co-op time," when most CBS affiliates are in local news. Gumbel cracked: "I'm amused, as I told you, I mean, if little Elian Gonzalez stops short, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's going to break her nose." His co-host, Jane Clayson, replied: "Yeah, I know. She's in every shot." Gumbel added: "The congresswoman from Florida. I mean, she is just..." Clayson finished the sentence: "All over him." Gumbel concluded: "Oh, God. I mean, it's...it's pretty disgusting.")
Newsweek's Evan Thomas and Joseph Contreras ended their April 17 dispatch by identifying Elian as a martyr for having to endure the grotesque Cuban Americans: "With the right nurturing, Elian Gonzalez may overcome his nightmares, but he has been scarred and prematurely aged, first by losing his mother in a terrifying accident at sea, then by the grotesque spectacle of his martyrdom in Miami."
Time's Nancy Gibbs claimed in the April 17 issue to like the idea of Elian's father Juan Miguel staying in America: "Republicans would welcome two new voters, the Clinton Administration would celebrate the rule of law, and the Cuban expatriate community in Miami would put to rest the impression that they fled one totalitarian state only to set up a satellite version across the Florida Straits. No one would be asked to choose between freedom and love."
After noting Elian's father thought the Miami relatives "had paraded his son in the streets and fed him to Diane Sawyer," Gibbs returned to moral equivalence: "The great challenge for Juan Miguel was that he was caught between a government with its own authoritarian rules and a family that was making them up as it went along...The law may not be on their side, but loads of local and national politicians—even a mutinous Vice President Al Gore—are." She also quipped that "Robinson Crusoe did not have the misfortune of washing ashore in a swing state."
Time's Tim Padgett began his April 17 article with insults: "The 'banana republic' label sticking to Miami in the final throes of the Elian Gonzalez crisis is a source of snide humor for most Americans. But many younger Cuban Americans are getting tired of the hard-line anti-Castro operatives who have helped manufacture that stereotype—especially the privileged, imperious elite who set themselves up as a pueblo sufrido, a suffering people, as martyred as black slaves and Holocaust Jews, but ever ready to jump on expensive speedboats to reclaim huge family estates the moment the old communist dictator stops breathing."
Like Gibbs, Padgett claimed "the older hard-liners despite their protestations of U.S. patriotism, are still steeped in the authoritarian political culture that existed in Cuba long before Castro took power in 1959." He concluded by rooting for anti-communism's decline: "As for liberating Cuba, the hard-liners have, in a perverse way, always been Castro's friends. 'The belligerent actions of the hard-line exiles in Miami simply keep giving Castro an excuse to crack down on us,' says dissident leader Elizardo Sanchez. Post-Castro Cuba, he insists will be government by moderates, not right-wing exiles. The same, perhaps, may someday be said of Miami."
After the raid, the Little Havana-bashing critiques didn't slow down:
Newsweek's Evan Thomas attacked the paranoia of the Miami relatives on Inside Washington the evening after the raid: "The Miami family is just obsessed with the idea that it had to be in Miami. They were afraid that if they went to Washington—this is literally what they were afraid of—that Elian would be put in the trunk of the car and shipped out to Cuba by diplomatic immunity....Their argument was the Justice Department couldn't stop it because the Cuban Interest Section would claim diplomatic immunity. This was a bogus, paranoid fear. But it is one of the reasons why these negotiations derailed." Twenty-fours earlier, he might have proclaimed it "paranoid" for the relatives to fear government agents would bust the door down armed with assault weapons and seize the boy.
Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief James Warren told the April 24 Washington Post that "Given the potency of television, that [AP photo of the gun in Elian's face] could be the lingering image, and it's a powerful one....It will ignite all the crazies....The focus on the Miami relatives and the Reno-bashers really grotesquely distorts the public response to this whole matter." He complained the Miami family didn't have a newsworthy case: "I'm not going to pitch [for a Page 1 story] the crazy family running around here all day and bitching on television, but it's going to be all over CNN and MSNBC and Fox."
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman deplored the Cuban American community's political clout and exaggerated on PBS's Washington Week in Review April 28: "I think the American public really got a taste of the degree to which not only Elian had been, in my view, you know kidnaped by these people, but American policy on Cuba has been kidnaped by a very active, vociferous minority."
ABC's Peter Jennings wrote in his promotional afternoon electronic-mail message on April 24: "The sorting of fact from fiction is, when we do it well, one of the most satisfying exercises in journalism. Sometimes, as you'll see tonight, the truth remains elusive. Other times you can nail it down." Terry Moran's subsequent "satisfying exercise" rebutted four assertions made by the Miami relatives.
Newsweek's Evan Thomas and Martha Brant found in the May 1 issue that a brood of hot-blooded Latinos required the government's use of force: "The fiery Marisleysis, who had been hospitalized at least eight times for stress, had told some community-relations workers that if the Feds came into the house, they could be 'hurt'….The hotheads around Lazaro had long warned that if Elian went to Washington, he risked getting hijacked by Cuban diplomats. 'They would put Elian in the trunk of a car with diplomatic plates, and the next thing we know he'd be back in Cuba. Taking him to see his father is like taking him to Fidel Castro,' said Ramon Saul Sanchez, a militant who led chants and organized human chains outside the bungalow."
Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom Watch" awarded the Miami relatives a down arrow in the May 8 issue: "Little Havana histrionics have worn so thin, even the cable news nets are sick of them." Elian rescuer Donato Dalrymple, who held the boy as the INS pointed guns at them, also drew an insult: "Old: Dalrymple was hero of the sea. New: Housecleaner turned publicity hound."
2.The news media have consistently praised the actions and "achievements" of Fidel Castro's Cuba, claimed it was better for children than America, and played up the paradise Elian could dwell in among the Communist Party elite.
In an April 12 discussion on Fox News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume, National Public Radio reporter Mara Liasson exclaimed about press reports lauding Cuba: "To make those kinds of assertions, that somehow his life would be better in Cuba. It's one thing to say that a child belongs with his father, it's another to say that growing up in a communist country is somehow better than being in Miami. I can't think of anyone in the United States who would agree with that." But that's what some reporters felt the public should believe: (With Real Video)
NBC's Andrea Mitchell boasted of an exclusive interview with Fidel Castro on the December 15, 1999 Nightly News. Clearly impressed by her hours with Fidel, Mitchell gushed: "What's astounding is how much Castro is personally micro-managing the Elian case. He's not just the country's head of state, he's the CEO, tracking every political development back in the U.S., even to the point of personally transcribing U.S. officials on the Sunday talk shows. Our meeting with Castro began in the middle of the night. He sizes us up by calling us to his palace. A dinner that lasts seven hours. The next night a second dinner even later, a call to be ready at midnight, a five-course dinner that doesn't begin until two in the morning. He ate little and talked a lot. He seemed old-fashioned, courtly—even paternal. But while appearing to be less confrontational, make no mistake: When it comes to ideology, he is still a communist."
ABC's Cynthia McFadden reported from Havana during ABC's live 24-hour coverage of the New Year 2000: "Part of what the children talked about was their fear of the United States and how they felt they didn't want to come to the United States because it was a place where they kidnap children, a direct reference, of course, to Elian Gonzalez. The children also said that the United States was just a place where there was money and money wasn't what was most important. I should mention Peter that, you know, as you talk about the global community, Cuba is a place because of the small number of computers here—in the classrooms we visited yesterday there was certainly no computers and almost no paper that we could see—this is a place where the children's role models and their idols are not the baseball players or Madonna or pop stars. Their role models are engineers and teachers and librarians—which is who all the children we spoke to yesterday said they wanted to be."
It's the educational wonder of Latin America, but it doesn't have any paper? Peter Jennings followed up McFadden by helpfully passing along more pro-Castro propaganda: "From the Cuban point of view, as everybody knows, I guess, education and participation in the Third World are very much what Cuba has stood for, at least in the developing world."
Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary visited Havana with a group of black columnists and came back to report on March 5 that there was nothing unsatisfactory about growing up in a dictatorship: "What I see are sweet-faced children—and intangibles that transcend all foolish materialistic arguments about who's better off where. I could see no reason why Patricia [a Cuban child she met] would be happier anywhere else than with her mother, even though her mommy doesn't have many 'worldly' possessions."
Singletary assured readers: "Now, I'm not naive about Cuba. Riding and walking around Havana, with its dilapidated apartment buildings and treacherously pothole-ridden streets, it would be easy to pity the people. But I'm not naive about poverty either. I've been there. And I can tell you that it is just as wrong to equate deprivation with misery as it is to equate prosperity with contentment." She's handled poverty, but what about tyranny?
NBC's Jim Avila was the most cooperative TV reporter in Havana. On the April 4 Nightly News, he touted the "Cuban good life" Elian could have: "If and when Elian returns, he will become a four-foot tall deity in a country that officially does not believe in God....Elian's future here likely to be the Cuban good life, lived by Communist Party elite with perks like five free gallons of gasoline a month for the family, a Cuban tradition called 'La Jaba,' the bag, which includes extra rice, beans, cooking oil and sundries like deodorant, shampoo, razors and shaving cream, about $15 a month worth of basics. Plus, invitations reserved for the party elite to cultural events, sports, discos and restaurants, access to the best medicine, expensive drugs like heart cures not available to everyone in Cuba."
Four nights later, Avila wondered why anyone would leave a "prestigious" job changing other people's sheets in a communist country: "Why did she [Elian's mother, a maid] do it? What was she escaping? By all accounts this quiet, serious young woman, who loved to dance the salsa, was living the good life, as good as it gets for a citizen in Cuba....In today's Cuba a maid, where dollar tips are to be had, is a prestigious job. Elian's life relatively easy by Cuban standards, living with Mom and maternal grandparents half of the week, in Dad's well-furnished home the rest of the time. Both Mom and Dad friendly to each other and caring towards their only child." Avila concluded by mourning: "An extended family destroyed by a mother's decision to start a new life in a new country, a decision that now leaves a little boy estranged from his father and forever separated from her." (With Real Video)
Newsweek's Eleanor Clift caused jaws to drop when she claimed on the April 8 edition of The McLaughlin Group: "To be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami and I'm not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously."
On May 1, Clift was asked on Fox's The O'Reilly Factor to defend her "lifestyle" remarks. She retracted nothing: "I can understand why a rational, loving father can believe that his child will be protected in a state where he doesn't have to worry about going to school and being shot at, where drugs are not a big problem, where he has access to free medical care and where the literacy rate I believe is higher than this country's."
ABC's Peter Jennings looked in vain for American advantages on the April 12 World News Tonight: "Beyond the questions of custody, the Cuban-American community in Miami has always argued, almost every day in fact, that Elian Gonzalez would have a better life here in the United States than in Cuba. It's been argued before, and there's not a simple answer."
Time's Nancy Gibbs boasted in the April 17 issue: "Altogether, in wages, tips and bonuses, he [Elian's father] earns more than 10 times Cuba's $15 average monthly salary—enough to afford to buy Elian imported Power Ranger toys and birthday pinatas fat with Italian hard candy and German chocolates....Elian enjoyed that rarest of Cuban luxuries: his own air-conditioned bedroom. And before Juan Miguel sold it to pay, he says, for calls to Elian in Miami, the boy's father even had a car, a 1956 Nash Rambler, in which Elian rode through town like a prince, while many people relied on horse-drawn carts."
Newsweek's Brook Larmer and John Leland used their April 17 article to compare Cuba favorably with these dangerous, uncaring United States: "Elian might expect a nurturing life in Cuba, sheltered from the crime and social breakdown that would be part of his upbringing in Miami. Because Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, works as a cashier in a tourist resort, the family already belonged to the nation's well-off stratum, who has access to American dollars. The boy's relatives in Miami can offer further support: Cuba now even has ATMs that dispense dollars from foreign banks. The education and health-care systems, both built since the revolution, are among the best in the Americas, despite chronic shortages of supplies."
Larmer and Leland concluded that if Elian returned to Cuba, "The boy will nestle again in a more peaceable society that treasures its children."
CNN's Martin Savidge promoted Elian's awaiting mansion and compared it favorably to his lesser Miami digs on the April 18 edition of The World Today: "This is the home Cuba says is almost ready for the return of the six-year-old in Havana's fashionable Miramar district, home to many international embassies. Even by American standards it's luxurious. By Cuban standards, almost unimaginable. The report on Cuban TV showed freshly painted rooms it says will house not just Elian, but his close family and 12 schoolmates, a stark contrast to the boy's Little Havana house, and that may be the point." (With Real Video)
NBC's Jim Avila couldn't let Savidge be the only shill on the tube that night, declaring on the Nightly News: "This is the state-owned guesthouse where Elian will stay when and if he returns to Cuba. It's a mansion by Cuban standards, but psychiatrists consulting the Castro government tell NBC News the boy's home town, Cardenas, is not the best place for his immediate transition into island life." He added without the slightest hint of skepticism: "Two stories, eight bedrooms, four-car garage in the upscale Miramar neighborhood—a section of Havana busy with new foreign companies and renovations. A far cry from most Cuban homes, it has a swimming pool in the backyard, satellite TV, air conditioning, a playroom. Specially built: a classroom and dormitory to accommodate twelve of Elian's Cardenas classmates, who will live with the Gonzalez family, and a medical team including psychiatrists. Cristobal Martinez heads the Cuban mental health team in charge of Elian's transition. He says Cardenas was ruled out because Elian is too big a hero to simply return to his family home."
CNN's Larry King asked Tipper Gore on the April 20 Larry King Live: "Tipper, one of the things that Elian Gonzalez's father said that I guess would be hard to argue with, that his boy's safer in a school in Havana than in a school in Miami. He would not be shot in a school in Havana. Good point?"
The sympathy for Cuba didn't stop after the raid:
CBS's Dan Rather lauded Fidel just hours after the raid: "While Fidel Castro, and certainly justified on his record, is widely criticized for a lot of things, there is no question that Castro feels a very deep and abiding connection to those Cubans who are still in Cuba. And, I recognize this might be controversial, but there's little doubt in my mind that Fidel Castro was sincere when he said, 'listen, we really want this child back here.'"
Washington Post reporter John Ward Anderson reported from Elian's hometown of Cardenas, Cuba on April 24, and wrote mysteriously that "Cuban exiles claim" children are imparted communist ideology, followed by noting children begin each day praising communism: "Starting in the first grade, all Cuban children are members of the Young Pioneers—a group that Cuban exiles claim imparts Communist ideology, but which parents say also teaches social skills and responsibility. Although they begin each day reciting, 'Pioneers for communism will be like Che!' [Guevara] few children give it much thought, parents said."
NBC's Jim Avila pontificated from Cuba on the April 26 MSNBC simulcast of Imus in the Morning: "The one thing that most, that I've learned about Cubans in the many times that I have visited here in the last few years, is that it is mostly a nationalistic country, not primarily a communist country."
3.The media justified Attorney General Janet Reno's actions and arguments, and lamented any resistance or delay in sending Elian back to Cuba.
The INS raid may have struck civil libertarians as illegal, unconstitutional, and terrifying to young Elian, but national reporters felt the raid was more than justifiable. It was overdue. The media's sympathy for a Castro-pleasing resolution to the Elian story was apparent before the INS raid:
ABC's Peter Jennings began the March 28 World News Tonight by implying that returning Elian to Cuba was the best, most civilized ending: "Good evening. In Miami today, immigration officials met with the Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez again and once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him."
Dan Rather lamented on the April 6 CBS Evening News that a free society had ruined the reunion of father and son: "[G]rown-ups near and far cooked his simple, tragic story into a thick stew of politics, legalities, ideology and raw emotion. Today's irony is that to get close to his son, this boy's father had to travel more than a thousand miles to a foreign capital and even then, even now, he must wait for the long-sought reunion. Such are the ways of politics and the law in a free society."
ABC weekend anchor Carole Simpson defended Attorney General Janet Reno in an April 16 commentary for ABCNews.com: "While I feel compassion for all parties involved, my deepest sympathies are with Janet Reno....It's hard to come up with the name of any cabinet secretary in history who has been more vilified than Reno. To some on the right, her actions against the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, have made her forever a murderer, a child-killer even."
Simpson continued that comedians should stop joking about Reno since "the Attorney General is now battling an incurable illness...In Reno's recent television appearances the tremors in her hands and arms seem to have worsened. Doctors say stress is a factor. But she has stood strongly before the lights and cameras, talking about Elian with tears in her eyes, her body all a tremor, and promising to operate under the rule of law and in the child's best interest. It is difficult to watch her visibly suffer emotional and physical distress."
These attitudes blossomed into full-throated support for the Clinton administration after the raid commenced.
Dan Rather declared just hours after the raid that Janet Reno shouldn't be criticized: "It's hard to see how she gets criticized for the way the operation was carried out. Yes, you can say, well, the marshals should not have been...armed that heavily. Put all that in quotation marks. But in the end it worked. The child was gotten out safely."
That same morning, Rather made it sound like the Associated Press photographer was more frightening to the boy than the INS gunmen, or at least the boy should be frightened in private: "If the photographer was in the house legally, which knowing the Associated Press would be very surprising if he wasn't, there is the question of the privacy, beginning with the privacy of the child. No one can look at these photographs and not think what this child is going through."
CBS reporter Jim Stewart also worked to soften criticism of the administration, adding during that morning that focusing just on this raid and the Waco raid would be unfair to Reno, who truly loves children: "[R]est assured that [AP photo with a gun pointed at Elian] will be the bookend on Janet Reno's tenure as Attorney General, that and Waco on the other end. It is appalling from her perspective because of the true compassion she has for children. If you've ever seen her around children, you know how much she truly cares for them, and this has got to be tearing at her."
Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas announced that night on the talk show Inside Washington that he found Reno's raid to be principled and apolitical: "I think that Reno really comes through this as somebody who may have made mistakes, but was principled about it, and unlike most people in Washington, who are trying to figure out the political aspect of it, seemed quite apolitical about it."
Almost exactly 12 years before, in the April 11, 1988 issue of Newsweek, reporter Evan Thomas presented Ronald Reagan's Attorney General in a much different light. While independent counsel James McKay had found no offenses to indict Edwin Meese, Thomas concluded: "But many in Washington believe that Meese's career is in serious jeopardy. The appearance of impropriety and the reality of his department's embarrassment are both powerful arguments against him—and though Ronald Reagan is still standing by the A.G., Meese may yet be forced to resign."
Thomas added with hopefulness: "New and damaging disclosures or further resignations at Justice could be the last straw; or Meese could be seen as an ever-larger political liability during the fall campaign....The outlook for No Problems Ed, in short, is very problematic, indeed." The cover read: "The Meese Mess: Struggling to Hang On—Again." The article's title reflected Thomas's hope: "Is This Finally It for Meese?"
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who began the Clinton years as a White House correspondent, provocatively proclaimed on April 25: "Yup, I gotta confess, that now-famous picture of a U.S. marshal in Miami pointing an automatic weapon toward Donato Dalrymple and ordering him in the name of the U.S. government to turn over Elian Gonzalez warmed my heart. They should put that picture up in every visa line in every U.S. consulate around the world, with a caption that reads: 'America is a country where the rule of law rules. This picture illustrates what happens to those who defy the rule of law and how far our government and people will go to preserve it. Come all ye who understand that.'"
Three days later, on PBS's Washington Week in Review, Friedman boasted: "You know, I just came from a trip from Venezuela to Bogota, Colombia to Moscow. I got to tell you, what people in Bogota, Colombia would give for five minutes of Janet Reno. What people in Russia today in these lawless, no rule of law societies, would give for five minutes of Janet Reno."
Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom Watch" box in the May 1 issue gave Reno a sideways arrow with the quip: "Better late than never. Waco. Ruby Ridge. The third time's the charm."
Time's "Winners and Losers" box called Reno a winner in the May 15 issue: "A.G. clears Puerto Rican protesters without a shot. Now just get the kid back to Cuba."
4.The news media have dismissed congressional criticism of the INS raid and calls for investigation as unpopular and unnecessary.
Within 48 hours of the raid, ABC and CNN/USA Today were conducting quickie polls. ABC found that 65 percent of Americans didn't want congressional hearings, and CNN/USA Today reported it was 68 percent. So the media's approach to oversight became that not only would they not press the administration for answers, they would also intimidate Congress out of pressing for answers.
CBS's Bryant Gumbel asked Cuban American Rep. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on The Early Show April 24: "Congressman, some of your colleagues have called for congressional hearings on this matter. I know you support such hearings. What would they accomplish besides just so much Reno bashing?"
NBC's Katie Couric shared Gumbel's disdain for hearings that morning, setting up Janet Reno with the inquiry: "The House Republicans say they want to hold hearings into the raid. Do you think they're exploiting this issue politically?" Talking with Tim Russert about NBC's poll on the raid, co-host Matt Lauer wrapped up: "And real quickly. One other point in the poll. 2 to 1, Americans are opposed to congressional hearings on this subject. Is that just because most people are tired of hearing about it?" Russert replied: "Absolutely. The issue has run its course. And they don't like to spend money. As we saw during the whole impeachment process."
Time's Margaret Carlson declared on the April 27 Good Morning America: "Elian Gonzalez, the less you say the better. Nobody wins, you know, saying too much on Elian Gonzalez, and I think she handled that just perfectly and Rudy being Rudy—and I take most of my, you know, I read Gail Collins [of The New York Times] all the time because she's following that race so closely—you know, when Rudy is pure Rudy, he's not good, and after, you know, being known for, you know, defending the police who've gunned down innocent people, for him to call this, you know, storm troopers and wade into the middle of it seems, you know, a political tin ear at best."
Carlson's "Public Eye" column in the May 8 issue chastised what she saw as perpetually failing Republican opportunists: "House Majority Whip Tom DeLay went ballistic over the government's 'jackbooted thugs.' He was far more publicly incensed by U.S. marshals using guns to forestall the violence of the Miami crowd than he ever was over guns used by children to slaughter their classmates." She concluded: "Waco hearings didn't work even though 80 people died. Impeachment hearings didn't work, although the President actually had sex with that woman. Trying to show that reuniting a devoted father with his devoted son is a miscarriage of justice because the son had the misfortune to wash up on the shores of a swing state? No wonder Democrats are happy."
Newsweek's Evan Thomas filed a May 8 article titled "Cashing In on Little Elian," in which he found the "vituperative postraid response of GOP lawmakers" was at odds with the public: "Most approved of the raid to return Elian to his father, and many people made clear that they were tired of the whole melodrama. On Capitol Hill, Republicans scheduled, then postponed, congressional hearings. That did not necessarily mean, however, that the exploitation of Elian was winding down."
Newsweek's May 8 "Conventional Wisdom Watch" began with the comment: "Just as the CW was trying to enjoy an Elian-lite week, the tone-deaf GOP kept trying to flog the soggy issue for political gain."
Conclusion: What a Balanced Approach Required
The media could have covered the rescue and seizure of Elian Gonzalez in a more balanced fashion.
1. The media could have scrutinized the administration more than justified it. Did federal agents bust down the door without knocking? Did the Gonzalez family offer any resistance? Were there any weapons in the house found in the raid? Was there any consideration of what the raid might to physically or mentally to Elian? Why was the NBC camera crew brutalized and threatened? Network anchors asked some of these questions in the first few days, but they often accepted without much resistance whatever answers they were given by the Justice Department.
2. The media could have explained the regimented reality of family life in Cuba. In the May 5 Wall Street Journal, Cuban refugee and human rights expert Armando Valladares explained: "If Elian returns to Cuba his father will have no authority whatsoever to make decisions related to his education. Cuban 'law' gives that authority to the communist government. Children are indoctrinated in Cuba from the moment they start to read. They are taught that the Communist party is owed loyalty above everything else. And they are taught they must denounce their parents if they criticize or do anything against the Revolution or its leaders....The Code for Children, Youth and Family provides for a three-year prison sentence for any parent who teaches a child ideas contrary to communism." In addition, "It is mandatory for all Cuban children over the age of 12 to do time in a Communist work camp in the countryside. Away from all parental supervision for nine months at a time."
3. The media could have balanced their questioning of the motivations of Elian's Miami relatives by questioning the motivations of the reunification camp. Was Elian's father really free to speak for himself? If so, why did he take so long to come to America for his son? Why wouldn't he go to Miami? Why would the National Council of Churches raise funds to send a boy back to a country that persecutes religious believers? Did Elian's father's lawyer Greg Craig have special bargaining power after he saved President Clinton from impeachment? How much was he getting paid and by whom? These questions were rarely asked.
4. The media could have encouraged more discussion and oversight instead of trying to cut it off. In their 1988 Iran-Contra book Men of Zeal, then-Senators George Mitchell and William Cohen advised: "Open debate is one of democracy's greatest strengths, its absence one of the great weaknesses of totalitarian societies. When covert action is necessary, there obviously cannot be an open debate." In the Reagan years, the media presented congressional hearings as American as apple pie. Now, they are presented as partisan thumb-screwing sessions which achieve nothing, even when this administration covertly plans a raid on a private residence. Has the nature of congressional oversight changed so dramatically since House and Senate majorities changed hands? Or is this double standard proof that the so-called disease of partisanship is just as infectious in the news judgment of the national media as it is at party headquarters?


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When Daft Punk wasn't bringing France's touch on Electronic music to the masses, they were putting their own touch on vocal takes. Daft Punk's singles have a character to them which feels human. The hooks are sung clear and coherent; nurtured by a funky kick you'd hear once and latch onto. But just how did robots connect into the hearts of red-blooded humanity?
While Daft Punk is made up of the humans Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, their albums are presented as music made by machines. As a robot, there is no sense pretending to be human, for one can see right through the perfection of it all. A machine designed to be flawless in calculation will never err, which is why electronic music sometimes turns people off — it's too "repetitive" i.e. where's the human-touch? Where is the flaw that I can relate to, as a fellow human?
The perfect response to this is found in their classic single, "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". "Perfect" may seem like too strong of a word, but any dance song which lasts beyond a decade deserves the acclaim. Indeed, the song maintains particular relevance, having been heard by most of the United States after Kanye West sampled the song in his 2007 #1-charting single, "Stronger". This is a song which repeats four lines for four minutes and by the end, it's just as much Soul music as it is House. The song gets so heartfelt, but why? What is it that makes it so appealing?
In the beginning of the song, the lyrics are sung crystal-clear — you, as a listener, can make out every word. By the end of the song, however, the track has elevated in pitch and the robots are no longer reciting a programmed phrase — they are singing. Yes, they are singing, because they are making mistakes. There are pauses between phrases — some phrases are not even sung during "Harder, Better…"'s frantic peak. Those four lines which the song had repeated with reassuring consistence now fade. It's difficult to make out what's being said; to decipher it, one has to rely on memory rather than the music itself.
Removing fractions of vocals to give the impression that this "robot singer" is flawed is, in itself, a robotic approach to making soulful music. This is the Daft Punk aesthetic: Music made not just by robots, but by well-intentioned robots; robots aware of, and trying to transcend, their robotic limitations.
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Amongst the background noise, the search for something real will rarely yield anything beyond a glimpse. These robots, in all their perfection, found their voice only as the song was coming to an end. What their "voice" translated to was distortion of perfection. The more chopped-up the vocals became, the more it seemed like these robots were capable of empathy. In addition to impeccable production, this is a major reason the song sounds fresh even eleven years after its initial release (March 2001).


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It has been some time since I posted here. As some of you may know from my earlier posts, my health has been challenged in a big way for the past five years. Actually, it began before that, about twenty years ago, but doctors couldn't determine what was wrong for fifteen of those years. By the time I was diagnosed, I was at Stage 3 out of 4. The autoimmune condition (Primary Biliary Cholangitis with Autoimmune Hepatitis overlap) is incurable, but a liver transplant can prolong life.
On November 23rd, 2015, I was finally transplanted, at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Miraculously, an anonymous living donor had come forward. This person is unknown to me. He or she had intended to donate to another person, and went through the health workups and evaluation, but the transplant did not happen. I do not know why not. The donor decided to go ahead anyway, donating a piece of his/her liver to a stranger in need. Because of my poor quality of life, my blood type and my relatively small size, I was chosen. I received the left lobe of the donor's liver, and the pieces grew back to almost full size very quickly for us both. My new liver grew to almost full size by eight weeks post-surgery!
At six months after the surgery I will be allowed to (anonymously) contact the donor through the clinic to express my gratitude. If all goes well, years will be added to my life. Transplantation is not a cure, for the problem does recur in some cases, but already the new organ has made a huge difference in my quality of life and well being.
Now I am recovering from the surgery. The most dangerous time, regarding rejection of the transplant, is in the first three to four months post-surgery. I have made it past that point with no rejection episodes. Hurrah! Full healing will take at least a year. But today, to celebrate Easter and enjoy this fine early Spring day, I walked in the woods with my husband, looking for signs of seasonal renewal.
This was my worship today, because being immuno-compromised by anti-rejection drugs, I am still avoiding groups of people in close quarters. This year especially, Easter is very meaningful to me, as I experience life anew, with energy, gratitude, and hope for the future.
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Our society is one that is pretty well defined by timeliness. TV programs start at a precise time, down to the second. Schools have elaborate timekeeping systems. Even church services are carefully timed. We know how fast we're going, and our GPS or phones tell us when we'll get there. And we're pretty confident that we will, in fact, get there.
Somehow this doesn't apply to our pickup.
This pickup, in case you're wondering, is a thing of… stories, shall we say. After a particularly frustrating experience with it one week (oh yes, the battle extended several days), I likened it to the Greek gods. And Terah had a good laughing fit when I began a sentence with "The reason there's a towel connecting the brake pedal to the steering wheel…"
But I guess the thrifty side of me won out, and somewhere along the line, I relented. My brother fixed up the carburetor. I got it a new battery. The flat tire is repaired. The starter broke, and I got it replaced. And I even got an oil change. Fancy, I know.
So today, when I needed to take some backbreaking junk off the yard, I was hoping the pickup would work. I hadn't driven it in months, and any manner of catastrophe could have struck it in that time. So I was mildly relieved when it started on the 6th try. That is, quite seriously, quite the improvement, and shows how skilled a mechanic my brother is.
The speedometer, of course, isn't working. The odometer stupidly reads "21531" or something like that (it was only a 5-digit odometer, broke long ago, so who knows how many miles it really has.) And I like to keep things like grease and heavy ancient air conditioners (one of the things I was hauling) away from my watch, so I wasn't wearing it.
The result: I have no idea what time it is, how fast I'm going, when I'll get there, IF I'll get there, or all those things.
I set out, and made it a good half mile before it died as I was rounding a corner at the bottom of the hill. Always a great place for a finicky old stick-shift vehicle to die, right? Anyhow, a few random adjustments to the choke later, and the thing sputtered then roared (and I do mean roared) back to life. A little lurching up the hill and I was back on my way. Now, I was stuck there in the middle of the road, but it was a country road, so I'd have probably had a good hour to get it fixed before worrying about blocking anybody's way.
My first stop: my great uncle's place. He has a "scrap metal for charity" project going on. He is looking for old motors, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, etc. He takes them apart, separates out the metals, sells them, and donates the result to MCC, a world relief agency. I knew I had an old dehumidifier in the basement, and thought I remembered seeing an old window air conditioner in the elevator. That thing is probably the single heaviest object I have ever moved without help. I have a bandaid to prove it. It was way too heavy to carry, so I kind of rolled it, side to side, from the side of the elevator on to the pickup. If you were watching, you'd have heard me making struggling noises, followed by "BANG rattle rattle rattle… pause… struggling noises…. BANG rattle rattle rattle" as I "rolled" it along the ground, and waited for the internal bits to settle after each quarter turn. So anyway, eventually I got it to the pickup, and then had the sickening realization: I have no way to get this thing up there. Oops.
I eventually placed it on top of an old tire rim, balanced it there as I knelt down, and somehow — still not quite sure how — managed to lift the entire thing a few feet until I could get some leverage to shove it onto the pickup. I later commented to my dad that it was a Chrysler brand air conditioner, somewhat to my surprise, and he said that it was probably my great-grandpa's. That was a surprise.
Anyhow, back to the pickup. I drove down the few miles to my great grandpa's place, not really knowing how fast I was going. I smelled the familiar smells of the old pickup: exhaust fumes, oil on hot surfaces it shouldn't be on, a touch of hot antifreeze. You never have any doubt about whether the engine is running.
It was sort of nice to not know, or particularly care, how fast I was going, or what time it was. Sometimes I'd idly wonder, but you know, it didn't really matter and there wasn't a thing I could do about it anyhow.
I got to uncle's place, unloaded the junk — sorta dropped the air conditioner off the back of the pickup with a terrific BANG, then rolled it all the way to his trailer — and got back in. On to town. I hadn't put gas in the pickup in a few years, and I suspected it was getting low. (The gas gauge, you guessed it, doesn't work right either.) Plus we had some large recyclables built up and it was time to get rid of them. And for that, I had to drive on the highway a ways. The speed limit there is 65MPH. I have no idea how fast I was going, but it wasn't 65. Maybe it was 45. I got passed a lot, but nobody looked particularly surprised that a pickup that looks like mine wasn't going 65.
Partway there, I smelled a different smoke smell. Not an oil smoke, but more of a grassy or wood smoke. Hmm, I thought. That's odd. Hope it's not coming from the pickup. I didn't really see smoke anywhere else, so I just drove on until I couldn't smell it anymore.
I unloaded the recyclables, then went to the gas station. As the pump readout neared $50, I decided: 1) the gas tank really was pretty empty, and 2) I just can't put more gas in it anymore. That would be more than the truck's worth. So I drove home.
The drive home was into the wind. My face got pretty cold – I always drive with the windows open to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning (remember the fumes?) I got home and prepared to pack up the pickup – close the windows, replace the bungee cord holding the brake pedal up, etc. I then thought I'd have a look under the hood to see if there was anything, well, on fire. Nope, but there was a packrat nest that fell down as soon as the wind hit it. Source of grassy-smelling smoke identified.
It's amazing what difference simple lack of knowledge makes sometimes. Not knowing what time it is or how fast I'm going means I don't have to worry about those things. I wonder how society has changed simply because accurate and cheap watches are available. I kind of like driving the old truck. It's a bit of an adventure, a bit of a challenge, a bit of randomness, and a bit of an escape from the normal and predictable. Not a bad deal for a $75 vehicle.


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Standard advice says to plant watermelons 5' to 7' apart in rows 4' to 6' apart. But watermelons aren't the space hogs they are often thought to be. "Ten square feet per plant is about right," says Scott NeSmith, a professor of horticulture at the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station at Griffin. "You can achieve that by planting in the center of a block that's 3' by 3', 2' by 5', or 3' by 4'. All will give similar results."
NeSmith has grown two varieties of watermelon at spacings of 3' by 3', 4' by 4' and 6' by 6'. At the closest spacing, total yields were always highest because more plants fit in the patch but it had no effect on fruit size or the number produced by an individual plant. The ideal, NeSmith thinks, is for the ground to be almost filled in with foliage by the time the first blossoms appear. If you want giant melons, let only one or two fruit form on a plant, rather than setting the plants farther apart.


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At the Democratic National Convention, John Kerry fired off one of the best one-liners of the entire event, saying, "Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'" It was a good line, and accurate on both counts. That prompted this absurd response from the Divine Miss Palin:
"I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name," Palin told Cavuto. "How does he even know my name? I mean, aren't these guys supposed to be these bigwig elites who don't waste their time on the little people like me?"
"Yeah, I did say in Alaska you can see Russia from our land base and I was making the point that we are strategically located on the globe and when it comes to transportation corridors and resources that are shared and fought over, Alaska and I as the governor had known what I was doing in dealing with some international issues that had to do with our resources that could help secure the nation," she insisted.So, it's funny he would take a potshot like that. It's funny he even knows my name."
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Jena Malone (Sucker Punch) has landed one of the major new roles in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The second installment in the trilogy has Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), and Hamish (Woody Harrelson) forced to compete with other previous winners in the 75th Hunger Games as punishment for Katniss' defiance in the previous Hunger Games. According to THR, Malone is in early talks to play Joanna Mason, another former winner from District 7 who's forced to compete in the new fight to the death. Mason is a fun character who wields axes and one-liners. I've always been a big fan of Malone, and I'm glad she's netted such a major role in what's certain to be one of 2013's biggest films. We previously reported that Malone was in the mix for the role, and she managed to beat out model-turned-actress Zoe Aggeliki (R.I.P.D.), who was tipped as the frontrunner last week.
Malone is also starring in NBC's new TV series, 1600 Penn, so she'll have to balance her TV schedule with her shooting schedule on Catching Fire, which is scheduled to start filming in late September. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is due out on November 22, 2013. Hit the jump for a synopsis of the novel.
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. [Amazon]


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Tokyo, Japan, October 31, 2010 - Coming off wins against Costa Rica and Poland in their first two Pool A matches, Serbia kept their momentum going with a 3-1 (25-21, 16-25, 25-21, 25-18) victory over Peru in Tokyo on Sunday.
It was the second defeat in as many days for Cheol-Yong Kim's Peru side who showed signs that their tough late-night match against Japan on Saturday had taken its toll. Stefana Veljkovic led the scoring for Serbia with 14 points, supported by four other teammates in double digits. Peru captain Leyla 'Ley' Chihuan scored 18 points, including five blocks.FIVB Women's World Championship Japan 2010 official page
There was a sluggish start to the match although Sanja Malagurski attacked well for Serbia and Patricia Soto countered for Peru. The Europeans led 8-7 early on and Serbia captain Jelena Nikolic jumped in with a couple of blistering spikes to push her side further ahead at 17-13. The Serbs had some difficulty closing out the set as a number of unforced errors allowed Peru to claw their way back but eventually a fabulous kill by Nikolic at set-point wrapped it up at 25-21. Malagurski led the first-set scorers with seven points.In the second set, Yulissia Zamudio helped the Peruvians into an 8-3 lead, with great blocking on Jovana Vesovic who was struggling to get things going out wide. The change of momentum prompted Serbia coach Zoran Terzic to withdraw Nikolic and Malagurski. Eventually his team put together a run, scoring seven of 10 points, but a pair of spikes by Soto gave Peru the set 25-16 in impressive fashion, making it 1-1. Both teams made errors as the third set began, but Peru held a slight edge with Ley tipping superbly to put her team 8-7 up. A scorching ace by Jovana Brakocevic then put Serbia ahead 12-11, but no team led by more than one point until late in the set when Serbia stretched their advantage to 21-17 via an ace by Veljkovic. Good blocking by Natasa Krsmanovic and a spike by Malagurski, who had only recently returned to the court, helped Serbia take it 25-21.There was again little to divide the teams early in the fourth set, with the scoreboard reading 10-10 at one stage. But Serbia moved 18-15 in front thanks to five consecutive points and a sensational attacking spike by Brakocevic. Brizitka Molnar finally put away a spike to win the set (25-21) and the match after a wonderful dig by Suzana Cebic.


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I'm technically not a dry, flaky complexion kind of girl. I have combination skin and when it acts up, I have to treat it with anti-blemish, prescription-strength medication that's really drying.
Recently though, I was in the beauty closet doing some new product research and came across Circ-Cell Skincare Dew Hydrating PH Perfector, $55, circcell.com. The words "dew" and "hydrating" caught my eye, so I took it home over a weekend and used it religiously.
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Rewarding Wall Street addiction does not fit the equation… This only perpetuates more trouble down the future.
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For the American economy – and for many other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to bankers over the last five years. In the United States, the sum stands at an astounding $2.2 trillion.
Extrapolating over the coming decade, the numbers would approach $5 trillion, an amount vastly larger than what both President Barack Obama's administration and his Republican opponents seem willing to cut from further government deficits.
That $5 trillion dollars is not money invested in building roads, schools, and other long-term projects, but is directly transferred from the American economy to the personal accounts of bank executives and employees.
Such transfers represent as cunning a tax on everyone else as one can imagine. It feels quite
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by Rob Cox, May 28, 2010
5 ways to keep the heat in the swimming pool
Back in the day, when I was a pool serviceman, we had a customer in DC who would keep his pool open late into December. Heat cranked up, steam rolling off the surface. The steam looked to me like dollar bills with wings - and I would always turn the heater down a bit - only to find it cranked up again the following week.
If you have movie producer money, then this may not be the article for you. But if you are interested in reducing the cost of pool ownership, and reducing your swimming pool's environmental impact, please enjoy, my dear reader.
If you have a solar heater heating your pool, or a pool heat pump, the cost to heat your pool can be very low. If you heat your pool with fossil fuel, namely natural or propane gas, like an estimated 900,000 pool owners do, you may be interested to know ways to reduce your gas bill and reduce your pool's energy demand.
1. Use Liquid Solar Blanket:
Liquid Solar Blanket, or HeatSaver was invented by a Canadian company, Flexible Solutions, in the mid 90's. A proprietary mixture of Isopropyl Alcohol, Liquid Solar Blanket floats to the surface and creates a microscopic layer just a few molecules thick. This layer reduces heat loss through evaporation, is tasteless, invisible and completely harmless. After a swimmer stops disturbing the water they rush to reform a complete layer because they are molecularly organized and happiest that way. And most importantly - with Liquid Solar Blanket in your pool, evaporation is reduced by up to 50%.
2. Use a Solar Blanket:
Solar Blankets - whether they are blue, clear or pink, perform a two-fold job. One, they heat the water (unlike LSB) by focusing the sun's rays through the air filled bubbles of the solar blanket. Solar Blankets or Solar Covers can increase the temperature of your pool by 10 degrees. Secondly, a Solar Blanket will retain heat and prevent evaporation. Using a Solar Blanket is also a good idea on indoor pools, to keep humidity levels low inside the structure. Using a Solar Reel makes installation and removal much easier, although the large reel is to some, a bit of an eyesore on the pool deck.
3. Use Solar Sun Rings:
A relative newcomer to the heat retention marketplace, Solar Sun Rings are very unique. Extremely durable and heavy duty, they will far outlast the life of a regular solar blanket. Also easier to install and remove, no solar reel needed. Pull them off the pool individually and stack them up. The edges of Solar Sun Rings have magnets, so that they stick to each other. Independent tests rate Solar Sun Rings as providing more heat transfer than standard solar blankets, and they certainly are easier to work with.
4. Install Wind Blocks
Hedges, solid fences and structures provide a good wind block to reduce heat loss. Wind is the largest heat theif from your swimming pool, so if you have prevailing winds, blocking at least one side of the pool will reduce the wind at the pool surface level. As an added bonus, you can block the prying eyes of nosy neighbors. Even partial fences and low hedges can be useful in blocking the wind, just be sure not to block the view of the pool from the house, which can pose a safety hazard.
5. Install a Pool Cover
Winter pool covers, even mesh pool covers, dramatically reduce heat loss. A pool cover is the most recommended method for reducing heat loss, and should pay for itself in a short time. Automatic pool covers, made of solid pvc reinforced vinyl, really keep the heat in, while keeping the dirt and debris out. Using a winter safety cover on your pool during the summer is not very common, but is a great way to reduce your gas bill, keep your pool cleaner, and prevent unauthorized use of the pool.


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It's getting close!!!!!! The nature of software development is radically changing. At PDC2008 Ray Ozzie will lay out Microsoft's vision for cloud computing and building applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web and mobile devices. In our first keynote Ray will talk about the new world of Software Plus Services, with Bob Muglia…
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With 200 million miles shared on the Zimride platform, it's safe to say that
ridesharing is well on its way to becoming a mainstream form of transportation.
Since our 2007 launch, Zimride has grown steadily hitting our 100 million miles
shared milestone last July. One year later, thanks to the Zimride community, we're proud to announce that we've doubled that mark and have passed 200 million miles shared. That's the equivalent of driving around the world 8,000 times…but more importantly, that's a savings of over $100 million in car expenses.
Along with this milestone, we're excited to bring Zimride to the East
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – This is the third update on former Georgia College student-athletes working their way through the world of professional baseball.
Michael Antonini (2007)
Pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Double-A Southern League, affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers … Has compiled a 2-4 record thus far, with a 3.31 ERA in 35 1/3 innings of work … Antonini has a fantastic strikeout-to-walk ratio, currently sitting at 4-to-1 … He took the loss in his most recent start, lasting 5 2/3 innings, allowing three earned runs and fanning three against the Mississippi Braves May 5 … Opponents are hitting just .253 against Antonini this season.
Andy Reichard (2007)
Pitcher for the San Jose Giants of the Class A Advanced California League, affiliate of the San Francisco Giants … Reichard has thrown in six games with two starts, compiling an ERA of 1.96 in 18 1/3 innings of work … Opponents are struggling against Reichard, only hitting .235 off the righty … His most recent start was a great one, going 5 2/3 innings with no earned runs in a victory over the Bakersfield Blaze May 6.
Alex Burkard (2010)
Burkard is in rookie ball pitching for the AZL Angels … Their season has yet to get underway.
Martin Dewald (2010)
The righty has signed a contract to play for the River City Rascals Independent Frontier League … The regular season begins next week.
Sean Harrell (2010)
The outfielder has signed a contract to play for the Southern Illinois Miners of the Independent Frontier League … The regular season begins next week.
Brendan Malkowski (2010)
The right hander has also signed on to play for the Southern Illinois Miners of the Independent Frontier League … The regular season begins next week.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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US Air Force12 years ago, the World Health Organization released the World Health Report 2000. Inside the report there was an ambitious task — to rank the world's best healthcare systems.
The results became notorious — the US healthcare system came in 15th in overall performance, and first in overall expenditure per capita. That result meant that its overall ranking was 37th.
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The results have long been debated, with critics arguing that the data was out-of-date, incomplete, and that factors such as literacy and life expectancy were over-weighted.
So controversial were the results that the WHO declined to rank countries in their World Health Report 2010, but the debate has raged on. In that same year, a report from the Commonwealth Fund ranked seven developed countries on their health care performance — the US came dead last.
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GOP's black market: Anti-incumbents
The highest-profile Republican insurgents of 2014 have had a few things in common: They've all run against longtime incumbents whom they accused of going native in D.C. They've all relied on super PACs to buoy their campaigns.
And in three of the biggest primaries of the year, hard-right candidates have hired the same general consulting firm: Cold Spark Media, a small, Pittsburgh-based company led by former advisers to Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey.
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Not that long ago, consultants say, it might have been a professional death sentence to sign up with even one candidate targeting a veteran incumbent like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell or Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran. These days, Cold Spark is only one of a limited but growing number of Republican firms that operate heavily in the black market of anti-incumbent campaigns.
The Pennsylvania company took in an eye-popping sum from the campaigns of Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, Idaho attorney Bryan Smith and Kentucky investment manager Matt Bevin. Hopping from one anti-incumbent race to the next, the firm collected a total of $2.4 million for services including ad production, digital strategy and data analysis.
( POLITICO's full coverage of the 2014 elections)
Thanks to an explosion of outsider Republicans running for office and the Supreme Court's loosening of campaign finance rules, the economics of political consulting have shifted. Suddenly, there's enough anti-incumbent work to sustain not just a skeleton crew of mercenary consultants, but a full-fledged cottage industry of ideological renegades — interlocking firms that pop up in one divisive primary after another, often working together or for different entities in the same race.
That makes it harder than ever for party leaders to stamp out internal challenges or deter strategists from taking on sitting officials by cutting them off from the elected officials and party committees on which so many firms depend.
"There is a small band of brothers who are very skilled campaign practitioners who take on these races," Jon Lerner, the veteran conservative operative who has long advised the Club for Growth, explained in an email. "The biggest factor drawing them together is an iconoclastic unwillingness to be pushed around by the traditional power sources within the party."
Republican media consultant Stuart Stevens, who worked against Cold Spark in the Mississippi race, said the firm — and others like it — have plainly staked out a "niche." "In the McDaniel campaign, it would seem they were the professionals that kept a very low profile with a very unprofessional campaign," Stevens said. "It's an increasing niche that you'll have when you have large amounts of outside money being spent."
( Also on POLITICO: Study: Record-low turnouts in some primaries)
Lerner's core "band of brothers" is a select group: In four of this year's most heated incumbent-versus-challenger primary races, a group of four firms have engaged in a kind of musical chairs, trading off responsibilities from one race to the next.
Altogether, the four companies — operating in Idaho, Mississippi, Kentucky and Kansas — have taken in some $8.5 million from anti-incumbent campaigns and super PACs just in those states, a review of campaign finance records shows. (That's revenue, not profit; Federal Election Commission reports don't break down how much money goes to operations versus fees.)
Red Sea LLC, Lerner's firm, was paid $3.2 million working for the Club for Growth and Senate Conservatives Action, the super PAC arm of Senate Conservatives Fund, in three of those races. The West Coast firm Target Enterprises took in $1.1 million from the Club and SCA in Mississippi, and from SCA in Kansas.
Jamestown Associates, a firm publicly denounced by the McConnell campaign, consulted for the SCF and SCA in Kentucky and the Club in Idaho; in Mississippi, it worked for both of those groups as well as for the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund. The company now works directly for Milton Wolf, the conservative radiologist challenging Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts.
The firm's total intake across those four races comes to $1.8 million. Federal Election Commission documents filed over the weekend show Jamestown is also producing ads for an outside group supporting Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander's primary challenger, conservative state Rep. Joe Carr.
The exact responsibilities of the firms differ from race to race. In Mississippi, Jamestown produced campaign mail for the Club for Growth, while Red Sea did the group's TV advertising and Target worked on digital ads. In Kansas, Jamestown is consulting for Wolf's campaign while Target places ads for Senate Conservatives Action ahead of the August Kansas primary.


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Burglars hit nonprofit Veronica's Voice
Group reaches out to women involved in prostitution
A group that helps victims of the sex trade get off the streets has become a victim of crime itself.
Police said Veronica's Voice was broken into early Monday.
Officers said they got a call that the organization's office door had been kicked in.
Founder and executive director Kristy Childs said the intruder used a rock to smash the windows of an outer door and then broke through a metal security gate behind in.
"The glass was just shattered everywhere," she said.
The thief stole a small amount of cash and several laptop and desktop computers. Childs said the computers were new and are supposed to help them reach out to women who work in prostitution to help them get off the streets.
She said the thefts will be a setback.
"We take enough hits as it is just because of the work that we do," she said. "But then to take this on top of it is kind of unsettling. But you know, we're troopers, we're warriors. We will push forward. We'll get through it."
Childs said that her group gives women purses with personal supplies and water, along with descriptions of men who have assaulted women involved in prostitution. She said she didn't think the burglary was some sort of revenge for those descriptions, but a crime of opportunity.
Childs said the nonprofit group would install an improved security system.
"I don't think anyone's worried about coming to work," she said. "I just don't want them coming back to finish us off."
When asked whether she thought burglars would find any sensitive personal information on the computers, Childs said that it's not something that creates a big worry for her because they were able to make password changes to minimize the risk.


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