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Has anyone else had Rascal and the other blue children go to nursery school too? And when she goes to nursery school she does not chase anyone or cause mayhem, I still can't wait to convert her. She is so annoying, lost so many collectables and food because of her. Oh...thanks for all the help. When I get stumped I come here for help, now if I could just get that last totem tore down. Also I noticed my children are less scared of the heathens the further in the game I go, most will go hang out at the masoleum and just ignore the orange and red mask heathens.
First I would like to say you could use the bees for the hunger and rainbow totem, I honestly don't know of what kind of dyes everyone is talking about but I just used bees several times with all my builders and I dismantled these totems. I did the same for the death totem except with lightning too. Second I'm trying to see how far I could get into the game with the lite version and so far I'm almost done, bought all the tech, Dismantled all the totems and, made the eye. know I'm going to have to buy it to get more kids but when I ran out of all the males the game started giving me kids in events, such as a bundle of joy you just received 3 children, then the next day I got the same thing but this time the children preferred the heathens so I just converted then paused until they joined my tribe. Anyone know how much energy for the make young power?
ok i already need to convert the heathen chief to complete all the puzzles but he won't appear anymore .. there was a heathen on an event that wanted to join my tribe so i accepted him he was an esteemed elder already at the age of 50 master in all 6 attributes but after accepting him to the tribe the heathen chief won't show up anymore .. is this a glitch on the game or what?
Hey, this question is directed to grinnyp, but if anyone else has the answer it would be much appreciated. I have the maximum 90 population, all of my blue heathens converted, and all building built. I've maxed out all of the construction etc. and have done pretty much everything in the game (except that stupid Jenga achievement).
I just cant find a way to get the earthquake godly power, I have 793 energy and can't get it up, and it's the only way to convert the red and orange heathens.
Any tips?
Hi, I am hoping you all can help me.
I have completed all puzzles and converted all heathens including the master heathen but I cannot get the population higher than 90, it keeps giving me a message saying 'not enough housing to support a larger population'. How can I get it past 100 so I can receive the trophy for a population of 100?
Finally started playing the game again and I'm now up to 680 energy. How do I get more? Keep having a more babies? If so, I need at least 20 more! Completed all puzzles already.
Funny bug, got irritated with the Rascal so I keep giving him bees and he got stuck in the river and couldn't move for hours! It was a great relief! He's moving again and I'm going to give hiim more bees hoping he'll get stuck again! :D
Hey all the tips have been really helpful but how do i get master builders? I mean i have constructed all the huts and the statue and everything and there is nothing left for me to construct. I have only 1 master builder and 2 adept builders. I need 3 master builders to take down the pain totem so how do i make the other two master builders when there is nothing left to construct?
[If you assign builders to build, then they will find things to "repair", which improves their mastery at the skill even when there is nothing to actually construct. -Jay]
1. If you use timewarp on a pregnant mom you can significantly reduce the amount of time she nurses.
2. I was able to attack the mauseleum at the same time as the blocking totem. Using bees repeatedly locked all of the yellow guys in the river, blues were chased away by trying to convert them. Then I just moved builders back and forth between the totem and and the mauseleum, working at whatever place the red guys were not.
3. You need a population of 90 to get the highest energy level.
I have completed all the puzzles long ago, and I have 90 population, 1 relic is not found for almost 15 days, it's frustrating. I have 23 relics.. Is this some error? Or does it really take so much time? And I have been using earth quake very often to convert red and orange mask people.. Only 3 are remaining, how do I reach max population of 100 because when ever I drag a villager it shows I don't have enough housing for population?
I broke down the mausoleum right at the beginning of the game, but i didn't break the blocking totem. I've gone further though the game and I don't have any master builders to break down the blocking totem.
Very stuck O_o
I have nothing else for the villagers to build so they can't improve anymore.
Please help;O
Hi again, never mind my last question, i figured it out but now i have another issue. Im too many tach points away from lvl 3 construction or learning and so far those are the only building projects that i can think of but i really need a master builder right now. i was wondering if yours builders can increase their building exp. by fixing the huts.
Does anyone have trouble with the mausoleum? Well the trick is that you have to try to convert the heathens. Do try to convert them the second time and they will run away, then put all of you're villagers to work restoring the mausoleum!!!! I recommend converting the heathen master doctor first and restore the mausoleum at the very beginning of the game, because the blockage goes up to 1000, and that's so stupid. I made that mistake once never going back there again.
Help please!
For some weird reason, I was able to convert the violet heathen in the lab even before I was able to train Master Scientists. Now, I'm missing a necklace piece because there's no more violet heathen watching when I place a villager on the board in the lab. What do I do??? :(
Thanks so much!
The most easiest way to get rid of the rascal:
Put butterflies on the deep water near the mausoleum. Then wait for the rascal to go to the butterflies. Put bees and thunder. (if you want just remove the bees or the thunder) And then they will all go in the deep water. Remove your child villagers. The rascal will stay up to 30 mins or 1 hour.
If you have the food/housing to support the large population, you can absolutely wait until you've reached a 90 pop before converting heathens. In fact, that is one of the few ways to reach the max population of over 100 ! You can also complete collections to raise your population by 5 villagers per collection.
Keep a large female population at child bearing age, but make sure that you still have enough workers to sustain your village. Research Fertility to increase the rate of twins/triplets born. I'd suggest also keeping an eye out for mushrooms as often as possible, just to make sure your food stock never runs too low.

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NAACP enters BISD fray
"We can't unscramble the eggs, but we can move forward as a community if we have enough forward-thinking people across racial and denominational backgrounds to come together," the Rev. Oveal Walker III told reporters during a press conference called by the Beaumont chapter of the NAACP on Wednesday, March 5, sparked by concerns that the community is becoming increasingly more divided along racial lines in disputes over how business is being conducted at the local school district. Walker said that a committee of community members from multiple backgrounds and experiences having open, honest talks could help to produce the change in Beaumont that residents have been unable to exact at the polls.
Nearly two hours of dialogue was exchanged between the assembled ministers and their audience of mostly media representatives peppered with concerned citizens, both black and white. While some in the audience praised the service of the Beaumont Independent School District Board of Trustees during the meeting, the focus of the exchange centered on how to improve an obviously flawed system running amok at BISD.
Beaumont NAACP leader Paul Jones said he had three main concerns when it comes to BISD – unlawful or criminal activities by BISD employees/contractors, the quality of education afforded African-American children, and "unfair scrutiny and demonizing" of BISD. Additionally, according to Jones, rumors that the NAACP or the African-American community as a whole supports criminal activity are "outrageous" and insulting. Furthermore, he said, "We do not condone criminal or unlawful acts by anyone," black or white, he then noted.
In a prepared statement to the press, Jones admonished community members who have promoted the reintroduction of at-large BISD trustee representation into the BISD election plan, a measure he believes to be a racially discriminatory voting scheme. Voters adopted the referendum to select BISD trustees via five single member districts with two at-large representatives voted on by the totality of the city.
"At-large elections are inherently discriminatory and disenfranchising to ethnic and language minority voters," Jones stated. "They are remnants of a broken past. They dilute and provide less representation to minority voters, and they're retrogressive compared to single-member district systems. I am very aware of the decision the Supreme Court made, which took away the coverage that only applied to a few states; however, they did not change the law, and therefore did not change what the at-large voting process is all about."
Jones went on to state that feuding over the election scheme could have contributed to the current state of BISD's affairs.
"Why have we spent time and money trying to take us back in time? Just imagine if we had spent all this effort on improving the district," he stated. "Maybe we would not be in this predicament regarding the pending accreditation issue. Our most valuable resources are our children and our teachers. There should be a collaborative effort of the entire community to help them be the best they can be. Be assured, if we do not, in the end, we will all pay, and pay dearly."
At the conference, Jones conceded that organizing talks between differing factions of the community could have also saved the district millions of dollars, and directly addressed the district's continued connection to contract electrician Calvin Walker, who admitted in a plea deal arrangement with federal prosecutors that he altered invoices submitted to BISD for payment that cost taxpayers more than $2 million. Had community members discussed their concerns in civilized discourse, a public outcry to facilitate the return of the $2 million Walker forfeited as part of his federal plea deal could have been reached, he said.
"The problem was we were not a united front then," Jones said. "If we'd approached it differently, the outcome would have been different."
The Rev. John Adolph, among the assembled ministers at the Wednesday press conference, said he tried on multiple occasions to arrange a manner in which BISD could retrieve the funds forfeited by Calvin Walker in his federal plea deal. Due to the community divide, Adolph said he was frustratingly unsuccessful in his quest.
"I tried, I really did," Adolph said, adding that the district not only needed the money, but also needed the public trust that would have come with citizens being able to see that district leaders were looking out for the best interest of the taxpayers and the children served by the school district. "We need that harmony back in our community – badly. If there are political hindrances to that, then we need to fix those political hindrances."
Adolph said that while it is best general practice for ministers not to become involved in any political arena, the controversies surrounding the local school district are so plentiful and detrimental to the community that the local clergy need to become involved.
"I just hope it's not too late for our community," he said. "If silence signals consent, then we sent the wrong signal.
"When you have millions missing and other serious allegation under investigation … the minority leaders in our community don't stand for that."
NAACP leader Jones said the elected leaders of BISD should "step back and take a look at themselves … put their personal interests aside and focus on the kids." However, he added, "I don't know if the current board can do that."
Whatever the fate of the current BISD Board of Trustees, Jones said, the community would still benefit from more all-inclusive exchanges of ideas and information.
"Do we have problems? Yes. That's why we're here to try to work through them," he said. "We do care about our kids. We do care about what's right.
"We feel like if we come together with solutions, we could come up with a better way."


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Away in a manger, no crib for his bed
The pope says believers are being misled
The stars in the sky look down where he lay
The pope says it didn't quite happen this way
The cattle are lowing; the poor baby wakes
The pope says the story is full of mistakes
I love thee Lord Jesus, look down from the sky
But even the pope knows the story's a lie
Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask you to stay
The stories are bogus; what more can one say?
Bless all the dear children in Thy tender care
Their number is zero… you really aren't there
Yeah, the pope has a new book out-volume three of his biography of Jesus. This one, "Jesus of Nazareth–The Infancy Narratives" (conveniently out in time for Christmas sales) would appear to be yet another salvo fired in the war against Christmas. That's right, against. All those nativity scenes in Santa Monica and elsewhere? Yeah, not so much.
According to the pope's research, there is also no evidence in the Gospels that the cattle and other animals traditionally pictured gathered around the manger were actually present.
He also debunks the claim that angels sang at the birth, a staple theme of Christmas carols.
I can't wait until Bill O'Reilly attacks him for being a grinch.


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Conrad Industries Announces 2008 Results
Conrad Industries, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: CNRD.PK) announced its fourth quarter and twelve months 2008 results. For the quarter ended December 31, 2008, Conrad had net income of $7.1m and earnings per diluted share of $1.09 compared to net income of $6.3m and earnings per diluted share of $0.86 during the fourth quarter of 2007.
The Company had net income of $23m and earnings per diluted share of $3.29 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2008 compared to net income of $19.2m and earnings per diluted share of $2.63 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007. The diluted shares for the quarters ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 and for the twelve months ended December 31, 2008 and 2007, are 6.5 million, 7.3 million, 7.0 million and 7.3 million, respectively.
Conrad's backlog was $71.8m at December 31, 2008 compared to $80.9m at December 31, 2007. At December 31, 2008, 61.3% of our vessel construction backlog was from other commercial contracts and 38.7% was from government contracts. This compares to backlog at December 31, 2007 of 55.3% other commercial, 4.1% energy, and 40.6% government. The backlog at December 31, 2008 includes two contracts with a total value of $15.5m for the construction of two z-drive harbor tugs. During the first quarter of 2009, the contracts for the two vessels were terminated by agreement between us and the customer.
Johnny Conrad, President and CEO stated, "We would like to thank our customers, employees, and vendors for helping make 2008 our most successful year in the Company's 60 years in business.
"Throughout the 60 years the Company has been in existence we have endured many business cycles and we have seen numerous ups and downs in volume of business and profitability. Throughout these business and economic cycles we've had to evolve and change with the demand of our customers and expand our geographical area and product mix in order to survive and prosper. Our customers comprise a very diverse group that crosses a wide range of businesses including the energy sector, dredging, construction, towing and bunkering markets, as well as the US Army Corps of Engineers, US Coast Guard and various state and local governmental agencies.
"We are optimistic about the long-term prospects of our business but we also take note of near-term risks. Current uncertain general economic conditions, tightened credit markets, substantially lower oil and gas prices, continued reduction in the Gulf of Mexico active rig count and fluctuating steel and machinery pricing lead to some uncertainty about our shorter-term demand and margins, and in the current economic climate, we expect demand, prices, margins and profits to decrease. We plan to continue to be responsive to changing market conditions and look for ways to continue to enhance shareholder value."
Conrad Industries, Inc., established in 1948 and headquartered in Morgan City, Louisiana, designs, builds and overhauls tugboats, ferries, liftboats, barges, offshore supply vessels and other steel and aluminum products for both the commercial and government markets. The company provides both repair and new construction services at its four shipyards located in southern Louisiana and Texas.


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Study: No Singles Standard For Sleaze
When Attorney General Ed Meese resigned last year, he was found innocent of wrongdoing but the media still portrayed him as an example of what news accounts called the "ethical insensitivity" of the Republican administration. But less than a year later, when Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigned rather than face action by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, reporters assumed a new emphasis, growing concerned that an "ethics war" was damaging the political process. Meese was "the crown jewel of the sleaze factor;" Wright a "casualty of the ethics thunderstorm."
That's the double standard MediaWatch analysts documented by studying how the media covered Meese and Wright when each resigned from office. First, coverage of Meese's resignation focused on his personal ethics problems, while reports of Wright's resignation focused on the fate of the House in the midst of "mindless cannibalism." Second, the media used differing terminologies to report the controversies of Meese and Wright, focusing on the "sleaze factor" for Meese and "ethics war" for Wright. To measure these trends, analysts investigated print reports in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report, and viewed broadcasts of ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, CNN PrimeNews and NBC Nightly News.
1. THEMES. To study the dominant themes underlying both episodes, MediaWatch compared stories within the first four days of Meese's resignation announcement on July 5, 1988 and the release of special prosecutor James McKay's report on July 18. For Wright, we surveyed the first four days after his May 31 speech to the House.
a) Continuing ethical/legal problems. Although special prosecutor James McKay failed to indict Meese, 12 of 25 print stories (48%) and four out of nine network segments (44%) predicted further difficulties for Meese, most notably an investigation by the Justice Department'sOffice of Professional Responsibility. Despite possible Justice Department investigations against Wright, however, only two of nine network stories (22%) and two of 25 print stories (8%) speculated on further troubles. Not one newspaper account touched on further ethical problems for the Speaker, focusing instead on stories like the Los Angeles Times' "'Liberated' Wright Explains Why He Resigned."
b) Partisan atmosphere. The tenor of the Wright coverage was stringently critical of the "partisan bloodbath" that led to Wright's resignation. 21 out of 30 print stories (70%) and 7 of 12 broadcast reports (58%) described some form of "partisan rancor" on Capitol Hill when Wright quit. As Michael Oreskes led off coverage in The New York Times June 1: "The House to which Speaker Jim Wright announced today his plan to resign is a House beset with fear, one in which every rumor, every phone call from a reporter, every partisan spat could be the beginning of the end of a career." Although the investigation by the House ethics committee took more than a year to complete, the Los Angeles Times headlined a June 2 story "Rush to Judge Politicians Held Damaging to Nation." Out of this atmosphere, ABC's Jim Wooten could sympathetically report of Wright: "And if his moving speech today does not restore those decencies he so wistfully remembered today, then perhaps history remembered that at least he tried." But Meese got no such treatment. In 25 print stories, only one New York Times story (or 4 percent of articles) mentioned in passing that "old-line conservatives" thought partisanship might have been involved. None of the nine evening news stories raised the issue.
Headlines and subtitles were also a signal of the double standard. When Meese protested McKay's report, the Newsweek headline read "Meese Plays the Martyr." When Wright resigned, Time asked "Have We Gone Too Far?" Los Angeles Times subtitles were just as pronounced: in one Meese story, the Times used "'Became a Caricature'," "Other Failures," and "'Personal Obtuseness'." In Wright articles, subtitles included "Embraced by Colleagues," "'Hounded from Office'," and "Atmosphere of Mistrust."
2. TERMS. A comparison of ethics terminology illustrates how the media presented the debate to the Democrats' advantage on both occasions. "Sleaze factor" was used to describe Republican appointees accused of impropriety, whether they were eventually found guilty or not. But the martial metaphors of an "ethics war" over Speaker Wright implicitly charged Republicans with dirty pool and excused the Democratic corruption by portraying them as the victims of a "partisan bloodbath."
In 1988, reporters from newspapers and magazines made unattributed reference to the "sleaze factor" 56 times, mostly as a description of the Reagan Administration's "legacy of easy ethical virtue," as The New York Times put it. To media minds, the term related only to Republican ethics controversies. Thus, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen's deflated ploy to charge lobbyists $10,000 for breakfast "might blunt" or "make it tougher to exploit" the Democrats' use of the "sleaze factor" instead of being an example of the "sleaze factor." In spite of all the ethics coverage, reporters used the term only 6 times so far in 1989.
But in the aftermath of the Wright resignation, print reporters made unattributed use of a thesaurus of "ethics war" terminology (including "ethics purge," "ethics reign of terror," and "ethics epidemic") 37 times, often in headlines. Newsweek made "Ethics Wars" a section heading for all its Wright stories in its June 12 edition.
In contrast, conservative phrase coiners were stiffed. Only three print news stories in 1989 mentioned Newt Gingrich's pet phrase "corrupt liberal welfare state," and when they did it came with criticism: The Washington Post's Myra McPherson wrote "Newtisms have indeed appalled members on both sides of the aisle." In fact, print stories that included the words "corrupt" or "corruption" with unattributed reference to the Democrats, have appeared only 16 times so far this year, and most of them showed up in sentences like "Democrats tired of being lumped together as corrupt and venal will support Wright as a demonstration of their own self-worth." This sentence by Tom Kenworthy appeared in the only Washington Post news story to use the word "corrupt" anywhere near the name of Jim Wright since the beginning of May.
Impartiality in ethics coverage requires that scandals involving liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans be covered in a balanced fashion, with a single standard. Circumstances may differ, but to tar the accused conservative Republican in one case and then assail the conservative Republican accuser in the next is proof positive of a double standard.
NewsBites: Newsroom Liberals
NEWSROOM LIBERALS. Every few years a pollster asks reporters about their political views. Every time the answer is the same: most are liberal. A just completed American Society of Newspaper Editors survey of 1,200 reporters and editors at 72 newspapers across the country is the latest example. Nearly three times as many identified themselves as "Democrat or liberal" or "independent, but lean to Democrat/ liberal" (62 percent) as "Republican or conservative" or "independent, but lean Republican/conservative" (22 percent).
MANGLING MAGGIE. ABC's Barrie Dunsmore thinks "Thatcher's ultra- hard line is no longer so much in fashion at home or abroad." Dunsmore's June 1 World News Tonight story included clips of interviews with 7 people, all of whom criticized Thatcher. "On European issues," Dunsmore claimed, "Thatcher is opposed to everything from cancer warnings on cigarette packs to strict pollution controls on cars to teaching two foreign languages in schools." Gerald Kauffman, an "Opposition Spokesman," naturally supported Dunsmore's assertions, characterizing Thatcher as "shrill, obstinate, inflexible, unsympathetic."
To demonstrate her unpopularity in Europe, Dunsmore spoke to a French woman who said "She's not very European." Sounding like a Labor Party advertisement, Dunsmore reported that "the satirists have always made fun of her lack of compassion...Now the people on the street are saying it." One man declared "she's a very uncaring person," followed by another who agreed "she lacks compassion." Dunsmore admitted Thatcher "remains popular with the middle class Conservatives who elected her," but he concluded his diatribe against Thatcher, "the 'Iron Lady' is beginning to show signs of metal fatigue."
TEARS FOR TEENS. On June 20, NBC Nightly News commentator John Chancellor intoned: "We can and should agonize about the dead students in Beijing, but we've got a bigger problem right here at home." What's the "bigger problem," according to Chancellor? A Carnegie council report that says middle-school students are in "impersonal factories that don't meet the educational or emotional needs of teenagers."
So here's the news from the world according to Chancellor. While Chinese parents are mourning their children gunned down, run over by tanks, or executed in show trials, American parents should despair all the more. Their poor kids have to go to "impersonal factories" that don't meet their "emotional needs."
RIPPING REAGAN. Writing in the June 12 issue, Time's D.C. Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott mourned Jimmy Carter's Salt II agreement as the last strategic arms treaty and praised President Bush's recent arms control proposal for "restor[ing] a degree of credibility and seriousness to the American conduct of arms control that has been missing for a decade." A photograph accompanying the article showed pictures of Carter and Bush squeezing out Reagan with a caption reading "Restoring a degree of credibility." Denouncing Reagan and his "cadre of ideologues," Talbott charged that the threat to peace is not Gorbachev, but "the American right wing, which is ever vigilant against backsliding into the bad old days of detente."
PETER'S PUFFERY. When I.F. Stone, Marxist author, journalist, and publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly died on June 18, his passing drew attention from all four network news shows. The next night Peter Jennings took time to pay special tribute to Stone's career at the end of World News Tonight. Although Stone had called himself "half a Jeffersonian, half a Marxist," and had supported every leftist cause from Stalin to the Sandinistas, Jennings declared: "He generally found something useful to say...For many people, it's a rich experience to read or re-read Stone's views on America's place in the world, on freedom, on the way government works, and sometimes corrupts."
Jennings found Stone's novel definition of what journalism "was all about" particularly meaningful and recited it approvingly: "To defend the weak against the strong, to fight for justice, to bring healing perspectives to bear on the terrible hates and fears of mankind in the hope of someday bringing about a world in which men will enjoy the differences of the human garden, instead of killing each other over them." So much for objective journalism.
TWO VIEWS ON INTERVIEWS. "The Chinese may have sunk to new lows," reported anchor Susan Spencer on the June 17 Evening News. How? By "using pictures stolen off a satellite feed as evidence of a crime." Chinese students were American TV news sources one day, convicted criminals the next. "Stealing TV pictures off satellites may be the most sophisticated manipulation of the press so far," Spencer charged.
Concern about "manipulation of the press" is new to CBS News. Three years ago, CBS made a deal with the Nicaraguan Interior Ministry. According to a November 4, 1986 UPI story, the network agreed in advance to provide the Sandinistas with a copy of a 60 Minutes interview. The subject was American pilot Eugene Hasenfus, shot down during a Contra resupply mission. The communist regime used that videotape as evidence to convict Hasenfus.
AMNESTY YOU AIN'T. In a June 3 report, CBS West 57th correspondent Steve Kroft described Guatemala as "the most brutal of all Central American countries," "one of the most brutal in the world," with "an army that has been described as the most brutal in Central America." Kroft, soon to move up to 60 Minutes, asserted that "Guatemala, a loyal U.S. ally in the fight against communism, also has the worst human rights record in the Western Hemisphere." Whatever happened to Nicaragua?
Not only did Kroft's sense of comparison suffer, but so did his mathematics. Kroft claimed 1,000 people had been murdered for political reasons in the last year. In phone interviews with MediaWatch, human rights groups generally cited a figure under 500 for 1988, but noted it can be very difficult to measure whether deaths occurred for political reasons. Anne Manuel of the left-leaning Americas Watch told MediaWatch the West 57th team was in close contact with her group during preparation of the segment, but said "I remember watching that and wondering 'where did he get that figure?'"
ECONOMY OVER TROUBLED WATERS. The doomsayers in the media are specialists at finding the dark side of good news, and Lou Waters of CNN raised that practice to an art in a recent report on the unemployment rate. On Friday, June 2, the government announced a dip in the May rate to 5.2 percent. But Waters stressed that "the number of new jobs sputtered to a three year low." Although the economy added 101,000 new jobs in May, Waters described that performance as "anemic," since "that's well below the monthly average of 275,000, and the worst the country has seen since March of 1986."
TED COMES DOWN FROM THE MOUNT. The spiritual leader of the largest cable TV empire in the country, Ted Turner, has issued his political creed. According to the May 26 Washington Times, at the Hollywood Radio and Television Society's May 9 "Newsmaker" luncheon, Turner delineated the principles from which his TBS and TNT political productions emanate.
Known as the "Ted Commandments," Turner promises "to treat all persons everywhere with dignity, respect and friendliness. That worked with the Soviets for me." Respect thy mother and father? Well, not quite: "This is controversial for a man that has five children, but I had them 20 years ago, before I realized that they were the population problem. I promise to have no more than two children, or no more than my nation suggests."
Turner believes we should preserve this overcrowded world by using "as little toxic chemicals, pesticides and other poisons as possible, and to work for their reduction by others." Not only is Turner against killing, but he "rejects the use of military force, and backs United Nations arbitration of international disputes." To curb the harmful effects of any possible war, the cable mogul wants to see the "elimination of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction." Not forgetting the importance of recycling for our endangered planet, Turner pledged to "use as little non-renewable resources as possible."
LESS THAN HIGH ON SDI. On May 13, the Los Angeles Times showed their distaste for SDI enthusiasts, presenting a story headlined "New 'Star Wars' Chief: The Right Man for the Job--at the Right Time." The story focused on Air Force Lt. Gen. George L. Monahan and the man he replaced, Reagan SDI head Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson. Times Pentagon correspondent John Broder described Abrahamson as "a 'Star Wars' zealot and missionary who sold--some say oversold--the program as a talisman against nuclear holocaust. Monahan, by contrast, modestly describes himself as merely a 'program manager' who says that his job is not to be a promoter for 'Star Wars' but to run a 'sanity check' on the costly and controversial program."
E&P: LABEL US LIBERAL, TOO. The May MediaWatch study documenting the tendency of media foundations to earmark the vast majority of their political grants to liberal groups merited a story in the June 3 edition of Editor & Publisher. But a week later, an editorial in the magazine for newspaper executives proclaimed "We do resent...on the part of all the media--both print and broadcasting--efforts of that organization to pigeonhole media and media personalities as being 'liberal' or 'left-wing' and attaching a stigma to it." (Of course, the point of the study was not to attach any "stigma" to liberal groups, but to point out that media company political donations are flagrantly imbalanced.)
The editorial also attacked MediaWatch Publisher L. Brent Bozell III. "When he labels the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban Institute, the World Wildlife Fund, the National Audubon Society, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU Foundation, and others like these, as having a liberal bias to be deplored, then include us in the list--we'll accept the liberal stigma too."
Revolving Door: Hoosier Time
Hoosier Time. Democratic political activist Ken Bode, NBC's Chief Political Correspondent for the past several election cycles, picked up his last paycheck from the network in June. He's moving to Greencastle, Indiana for the slower pace of academic life as Director of the Center for Contemporary Media at DePauw University. Bode is not completely abandoning television: He'll serve as moderator of a new quarterly TV series, American Survival, produced by the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis. Bode was a top level strategist for liberal Democrat Morris Udall's 1976 presidential bid. In 1972, according to The Washington Post, he wrote the McGovern Commission delegate reform rules.
From Carter to the Times. Leon Sigal, a Special Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the State Department between 1979 and 1981, has joined The New York Times editorial board. As an editorial writer Sigal now works for Jack Rosenthal, Editor of the editorial page and a State Departtment official under President Johnson. A government professor at Wesleyan University before and after his government stint, Sigal has written two Brookings Institution books on arms control since leaving the Carter Administration.
Switching Sides. The Washington Bureau Chief of The Milwaukee Journal, John (Jack) Kole, has left the paper's D.C. office after more than 25 years. In June he jumped into politics as Senior Writer and press aide for liberal Congressman David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat he spent much of his career covering.
Matthews in the Morning. For the past year or so Chris Matthews, Chief of Staff to former House Speaker Tip O'Neill from 1981 to 1986, has served as "political columnist" for CBS This Morning. The network must like what he has to say. In May Matthews signed a one year contract to contribute a news story, interview or commentary every Monday.
Gunning for Lugar. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has named David Shapiro his new Press Secretary. For the past six years Shapiro has been an off-air national security affairs reporter for the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS.
Columbia Journalism Review's View. Just after becoming Publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) late last year, Joan Konnor assured readers she does not think the media are biased in any way. "I believe," Bill Moyers' former producer at PBS wrote, that reporters "have no theologies, no 'isms'" and there is "no time for fixed religions, no dogma." In early March Konnor selected a new Editor: Suzanne Braun Levine, a founder, Managing Editor and later Editor of the liberal Ms. magazine. So much for any articles in CJR, the nation's largest magazine of media criticism, about liberal media bias.
PBS: Only Liberals Allowed
Frontline, the weekly PBS public affairs show, often serves as a mouthpiece for trendy liberal causes. Two Frontline shows last year highlighted the far left Christic Institute's conspiracy theories about CIA and Contra drug running in Central America. PBS regularly provides Bill Moyers with specials and series that serve as a platform for his liberal views. Programs with a non- liberal perspective, however, are not so readily accepted. Just take a look at two shows turned down recently.
French historian Jacques Rupnik offered Frontline a six-part series on Eastern Europe he produced. The Other Europe avoids the glasnost hype surrounding most coverage of Eastern Europe, offering a more realistic look at the changing situation in the Warsaw Pact. Originally broadcast in Britain, the series will soon be shown in 12 European countries, including Hungary. Americans may never see The Other Europe. After six months of inaction, Frontline's Executive Producer, David Fanning, rejected the series as out of date.
In a conversation with MediaWatch, Rupnik countered Fanning by citing Frontline's Summer 1988 re-broadcast of the "Comrades" series on life in the Soviet Union, complaining that the series was produced before Gorbachev had come to power and reflected a "Brezhnevite" view of Soviet agriculture. Rupnik agreed with New Republic Publisher Martin Peretz, whose June 5 story characterized Fanning as a "leftist ideologue" who "especially didn't like Rupnik's views, which are unfashionably disapproving of the Soviets."
Soviets at the Crossroads, a five-part documentary on the victims of Soviet expansionism produced by Stoneaway Productions and South Carolina Educational Television, met a similar fate. The Southern Education Communications Association made the series available to all PBS stations. Only seven PBS affiliates in the top 5 markets contacted by MediaWatch planned to carry the series. Among the stations not airing it: the major PBS affiliates in Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Washington. On the other hand, Days of Rage, a pro-Palestinian documentary, will be carried by all 15 stations.
As if not already liberal enough, PBS chose to dig up old Bill Moyers productions. Under the title, Bill Moyers: A Second Look, during May, June and early July PBS aired 13 old CBS and PBS programs by Moyers. On June 20 PBS broadcast "People Like Us," a 1982 CBS Reports piece on the "victims" of Reaganomics. This one- sided, anti-Reagan diatribe caused an uproar when first seen.
Following the re-broadcast, Moyers insisted: "The documentary has held up as both true and sadly prophetic. While Congress restored some of the cuts made in those first Reagan budgets, in the years since, the poor and the working poor have born the brunt of the cost of the Reagan Revolution. The hardest-hit programs have been welfare, housing and other anti-poverty measures. Even programs that were not cut have failed to keep up with inflation. Meanwhile, rich people got big tax breaks. And the middle class kept most of their subsidies intact. As a result, the Reagan years brought on a wider gap between rich and poor."
Shows like "People Like Us" have led PBS to give Moyers $2.2 million, the largest grant in the 1989-1991 budget, to produce five more documentaries. According to PBS Vice President Barry Chase, "Moyers and public television are a nice marriage, and we need to keep it going."
Boos for UPI
How can an innocuous editor's re-write of an article change a story's spin -- and create a very different news report? Here's an example.
When Vice President Dan Quayle delivered the West Point commencement address on May 24, UPI reporter Michael O'Malley filed a story. His report included this sentence: "A slight wave of boos and hisses from the Corps of Cadets greeted Quayle when he was introduced at the 191st Commencement Ceremonies."
UPI's national desk changed the story to read that Quayle, "dogged during last year's campaign by suggestions that he was a draft dodger, was booed by West Point cadets...The boos and hisses arose from the corps of cadets, West Point's under-graduates, when the Vice President was introduced with a mention of his Vietnam-era service in the Indiana National Guard." The UPI angle gained credibility when CNN and CBS afternoon news briefs picked up the report of Quayle's humiliation and NBC Nightly News ran the story.
But the boos never actually occurred. In fact, O'Malley was the only reporter on the scene to report such a reaction. An outraged Lt. Gen. Dave Palmer, Superintendent of the Academy, wrote UPI President Paul Steinle. "From my vantage point overlooking not only the entire corps of cadets and the other 15,000 or so who attended the ceremony I heard no boos and no hisses," he charged, "to say that Vice President Quayle was 'booed and hissed' by the corps of cadets appears to be, purely and simply, an outright fabrication."
In response, Steinle apologized for the report, admitting that "clearly, UPI overstated the reaction." But Steinle ignored one of Palmer's suggestions: "A member of the United States Corps of Cadets who is found to have lied is subject to dismissal. No less stringent a standard should obtain among those who inform the American people than among those who are sworn to defend them." MediaWatch thanks retired Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham of High Frontier for alerting us to this item.
Rather Unfair
In the midst of media-driven controversy over the RNC memo, CBS News anchor Dan Rather delivered a spurious shot at the GOP. In the June 11 "Presidential Portrait," a minute long prime-time public service series, Rather blamed the Republican Party for the death of President Andrew Jackson's wife. Rather explained "the victim of the political mudslinging" in the 1828 race "was the Democratic candidate's wife, Rachel, who was slandered as an adulteress." Jackson went on to "a sweeping victory, but the strain of the campaign was too much for Rachel. She died of heart failure." Rather concluded: "Rachel's husband never forgave his Republican opponents."
Rather neglected to explain there was no connection between opponent John Quincy Adams' National Republican Party of 1828 and the modern Republican Party formed 26 years later.
Neutering Newt
Less than two weeks after House Speaker Jim Wright resigned, The Washington Post came to the aid of House Democrats by running a disparaging "Style" section profile of House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. The June 12 story was little more than a 5,000 word repetition of every derogatory charge ever made against Gingrich, the man Democrats in Congress fear the most.
"Many are troubled by Gingrich's scorched-earth policy as he boasts that more Democratic heads will roll," Post staff writer Myra MacPherson charged. "David Obey dismisses him as a 'poor imitation of Joe McCarthy' for impugning the 'patriotism' of his colleagues." MacPherson found that "Republicans also express dismay," including "Iowa moderate Jim Leach," who is "disturbed by Gingrich's 'very divisive statements.'" Just about everyone Gingrich has ever met seems to think little of him. Gingrich's "smears" caused a "former colleague of Gingrich's at West Georgia College to mutter that 'Newt doesn't take the low road--he takes the tunnel.'"
As for his political views, MacPherson described Gingrich as "a politician who knows that contradictions between voting records and words, between reality and a hyped version of reality, scarcely matter in the world of the 15 second sound bite." She cited a speech in which Gingrich "railed at the 'cynical compassion of the left, which shows it cares about the homeless by sleeping on a grate under TV lights,'" yet "Gingrich voted against bills to help the homeless."
MacPherson called Gingrich a "spiritual adviser" to the Conservative Opportunity Society PAC which sent out a fundraising letter reading: "Liberals in Congress abandoned the cause of freedom, leaving Russian gunships to mop up the young men and woman of the Nicaraguan resistance." A "peculiar claim," MacPherson thought.
Proceeding to his divorce, MacPherson quoted the minister who counseled the couple: "You're looking at an amoral person. That's what you're looking at."
But the Post is not so critical of all congressional leaders. "Rep. Tony Coelho (D-Calif.) spent his last day in the House yesterday doing what he always did best: adroitly shaping a message," reporter Tom Kenworthy began a June 16 story. Kenworthy praised the liberal Democrat for how he "has managed to cut the cord with his usual surgical precision, jauntily heading into a new life with what he said is enthusiasm and no regrets."
Janet Cooke Award: TIME: Atwater Assault
"What one does in Washington behind closed doors generally stays out of the paper. But the persistent rumor that one of the potential 1988 presidential candidates has a homosexual past is testing the unacknowledged code of silence among reporters." -- Margaret Carlson in Esquire, November 1985.
"An effective smear has at its core an outrageous charge that would be devastating if true. The author must be both coy and cowardly: he must make the charge stick while retaining deniability." -- Margaret Carlson, "How to Spread a Smear," Time, June 19, 1989.
Who better to cover a story about a smear, Time editors must have thought when they assigned Margaret Carlson to the story about malicious rumors regarding House Speaker Thomas Foley's alleged homosexuality.
But Time's June 19 article never did examine the true sources of the rumors. Instead, Carlson and editors openly broadsided the Republican Party, even calling for the firing of RNC Chairman Lee Atwater. For its frenzied partisan attacks, Time magazine earns the July Janet Cooke Award.
The uproar centered around a memo circulated by the RNC's Mark Goodin to GOP leaders. "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet" compared Foley's liberal voting record to self-proclaimed gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). Democrats labeled it a smear of Foley's character. Goodin was forced to resign with Democrats aiming next at Atwater.
Despite what the Democrats claimed, neither Goodin nor the RNC had any smear tactic in mind. Dan Casey, Executive Director of the American Conservative Union, explained to MediaWatch that the RNC originally planned to compare Foley's record to that of Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey. The RNC decided to use Frank instead after conservatives pointed out that Frank's liberal voting record was far better known than the more obscure Markey's.
So where did the rumors about Foley being gay originate? As Hodding Carter, former Assistant Secretary of State under President Carter, stated on the June 11 This Week with David Brinkley: "The story, the innuendo, the smear on Tom Foley as everybody in our business knows didn't start with Lee Atwater. It started with some Democrats and it started as an attempt to make sure that nothing bad happened to the Speaker of the House...Jim Wright."
Carlson took a different angle, beginning her piece: "'Have you no decency sir?' That was the question Army counsel Joseph Welch asked Joseph McCarthy 35 years ago when the Senator ruined the lives of those who did not agree with him by impugning their character and patriotism. The same question could be posed to RNC Chairman Lee Atwater, his communications director Mark Goodin, and Congressman Newt Gingrich."
Furthering the Democratic scenario, Carlson continued: "Acting directly or through subordinates, this trio last week worked to spread a long-standing unsubstantiated rumor designed to humiliate new House Speaker Thomas Foley." Without mentioning that Democrats began the rumor, Carlson went on to say that "For days, an aide to...Gingrich had been calling more than a dozen reporters trying to get the homosexuality rumor into print."
Focusing next on Atwater, she added: "Although Goodin, Atwater's friend of a decade, took the fall, the tactic bore the unmistakable Atwater stamp. As Bush's 1988 campaign manager, Atwater specialized in character assassination."
Time abandoned all pretense of balance in a bolded summary box surrounded by Carlson's main article: "From his early campaigns in South Carolina through the 1988 presidential election Lee Atwater has displayed a talent for smearing opponents and then either apologizing or suffering memory lapses about his role." The insert box titled "'Sorry' Is Not Enough" demanded: "If Bush really wants to prove himself a political environmentalist in search of a kinder, gentler America, he should sack Atwater."
In an interview with MediaWatch, Carlson defended both her 1985 Esquire article and what she wrote on Atwater.
MediaWatch: "You spread a smear in 1985 in Esquire. Isn't it hypocritical to come back now and write this?"
Carlson: "I don't think I was spreading a rumor about Jack Kemp. I wasn't thinking of Jack Kemp. There were at least fifteen candidates at the time who might run for President. It was an analytic piece about the press and how they deal with this issue of homosexuality in public life. We [in Esquire] had the decency not to mention anyone by name. Atwater didn't have the decency not to name Tom Foley. One politician trying to smear another by name, a direct hit, is very different."
MediaWatch: "Isn't your recent article just another example of how Time has come into blatant editorialization lately?"
Carlson: "I think the facts are put into some sort of context and that analysis sometimes turns into opinion. I think there is more characterization of the facts than there used to be."
MediaWatch: "Sounds like opinion to me."
Carlson: "I already admitted there's a fine line. You're right, one person's characterization of the facts is another's opinion. But it's not an editorial, it is not taking a position [like] 'I'm for flag burning or I'm against flag burning!'"
MediaWatch: "Yet you are for or against Atwater and you come out very definitively against him."
Carlson: "[Against] the incident."
MediaWatch: "Against Atwater too."
Carlson: "Well, yes. That's true, that's true."
If the rumor really was started by Democratic opponents of Foley, why didn't Time pick up on that issue? "I'm not protecting Democrats -- I know your point here," she assured, "We didn't have it at the time -- honestly. If we did, believe me, we would have published it." But consider what Time's competitor, U.S. News & World Report, relayed that same week: "This is a story about a bad rumor and its sorry consequences. Democrats probably started it. Republicans gleefully fanned it. And the press ultimately gave it full-blown legitimacy..."
The article blamed the RNC and the GOP for lending full credence to the smear, but U.S. News pointed out the role of Democrats, including Congressman Jack Murtha (D-Penn.), and their "cloakroom chitchat" in initiating the rumor. How did Carlson account for the U.S. News spin and its different facts? Grudgingly she admitted: "I guess they just outreported us."
Still, the most blatant bias came in the box, which Carlson declined to discuss. So who, then, is writing these inserts anyway? Senior Editor Robert "Terry" Zintl confessed that it is usually not the writer of the article: "That was written by Larry Barrett," the National Political Correspondent. More to the point, Zintl admitted the inserts are editorials: "We do these boxes to be provocative, to make a little editorial point. They are supposed to have a point or opinion to them. The magazine has gotten more opinionated on certain subjects. That's the function these boxes play."
So, there you have it. Time is now officially a magazine of opinion. Carlson had free reign to attack Atwater, Gingrich, and the Republican Party. But to get the complete look at how Time writers view the world, read the insert boxes. It seems any Time writer can freely express political views. Move over National Review and The New Republic -- your competition has arrived.


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Following up our presentation of Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen 1, here's the other UFC fight where Anderson Silva looked less-than-invincible, at least momentarily. This was Silva's third middleweight title defense, back at UFC 82 in March 2008, and Dan Henderson dominated the opening round, taking Silva down about two minutes into the fight and grinding down on him with punches for the rest of the frame. Henderson also puts a good deal of effort into covering Silva's mouth and nose with his hand, a cheap breathing-obstruction trick that occasionally bleeds into gouging/fish-hooking territory. (Side note: Skip to the 14:07 mark, and you'll see the rough draft of the front kick that Silva used to dummy up Vitor Belfort.)
Silva got even in the second round, brawling a bit with Hendo before letting his precision striking take over. At the 21:16 mark, Silva nails Henderson with a knee, kick, and punches that the challenger is never able to recover from. Silva gets on top of Henderson and works his jiu-jitsu until he sinks a particularly nasty rear-naked choke. After the fight, Silva takes a moment to explain that Henderson was good, but he's no Rich Franklin. A real…class act? Anyway, the Ohio fans loved it.
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Casey Anthony Detectives Overlooked Google Search
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The Florida sheriff's office that investigated Caylee Anthony's death says it overlooked a computer search for suffocation made from the little girl's home on the day she was last seen alive.
Orange County sheriff's Capt. Angelo Nieves said Sunday that the office's computer investigator missed a June 16, 2008, Google search for fool-proof suffocation methods. The oversight was first reported by Orlando television station WKMG. It's not known who performed the search. The station reported it was done on a browser primarily used by the 2-year-old's mother, Casey Anthony.
The girl's body was found six months after she disappeared.
Casey Anthony was acquitted of her daughter's murder in 2011. Her attorneys argued that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family pool and that Casey Anthony's father helped her cover it up.


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It may be Christmas Eve tomorrow, but comic stores will still be opening their doors and selling new comics same as ever. What new releases should you be looking at as potential stocking stuffers?
Unsurprisingly, there aren't that many big-ticket items being released the day before Christmas, but that's not to say that a visit would be entirely without value for any last-minute shoppers; Image Comics are putting out not only a more=beautiful-than-it-has-any-right-to-be Spawn: Book Of The Dead handbook, but also a paperback collection of the first seven issues of classic 1980s SF series American Flagg for the Communist-loving American Imperialist in your life. Marvel, too, are going for the patriotic angle with their Captain America: Theater of War: America First! special and, sadly, that really is the title. More expensive and filled with colorful characters and the least-expected Black Panther ever is the hardcover collection Ultimates 3: Who Killed The Scarlet Witch?, which also manages to spoil its first chapter with that title. Well done, Marvel!
Dark Horse manages to get in on the ideal last-minute present for the geek in your life game with Star Wars: Rise Of The Sith Omnibus, a collection of stories about everyone's favorite abusers of the Force, while aesthetes and noir fans alike will find value in the first issue of Mister X: Condemned, a new series by series creator Dean Motter. If you'd rather relive one of the greatest hours of television ever made in comic book form - and, really, why wouldn't you, aside from that whole "Because it was a great television episode" thing - then IDW release the first issue of a three-part adaptation of the "Smile Time" episode of Angel, but I'd be much more comfortable pointing you in the direction of the first issue of Boom! Studios' Farscape, the official continuation of the TV show by creator Rockne S. O'Bannon that is sure to make many a yuletide bright.
(Of course, if you just can't leave the store without a Christmas-themed comic, there's always Army of Darkness: Ash's Christmas Horror...)
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What's News: Apple's stock price falls below $400, a two-month low. Neiman Marcus files to go public. Rafael Nadal loses in first round at Wimbledon. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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By Karen Freifeld
NEW YORK (Reuters) — A New York state
judge on Friday approved most of Bank of America Corp's <BAC.N> $8.5
billion settlement with investors over toxic mortgage securities,
but left a caveat that could complicate the bank's efforts to
implement the deal.
Justice Barbara Kapnick ruled that Bank of New York Mellon <BK.N>,
the trustee representing investors, had acted mostly in good faith
in agreeing to the settlement. But she withheld her approval for one
part of the settlement where she said the trustee had not acted
A spokesman for Bank of America said the bank did not expect that
Kapnick's exclusion would hold up the accord.
But a lawyer for American International Group Inc <AIG.N>, which led
investors that opposed the settlement, said the insurer foresees a
long legal fight ahead.
Bank of America agreed to the settlement in June 2011 to resolve the
claims of investors who had bought $174 billion of mortgage-backed
securities issued by Countrywide before the U.S. housing crisis. The
investors said Countrywide misrepresented the quality of the
underlying home mortgages, which went sour in the crisis.
Countrywide, based in Calabasas, California, was the biggest home
mortgage lender in the United States until the housing market
collapsed, specializing in so-called subprime loans, most of which
it packaged into securities and resold to investors. It was bought
by Bank of America in 2008.
A group of 22 investors supported the settlement, including
institutions such as BlackRock Inc <BLK.N>, MetLife Inc <MET.N> and
Allianz SE's <ALVG.DE> Pacific Investment Management Co.
But investors led by AIG <AIG.N> objected, arguing that they were
cut out of negotiations and that there was no evidence the
settlement was big enough.
In her ruling on Friday, Kapnick wrote that, at the time the
settlement was reached, it was clear Bank of New York Mellon was
concerned that Countrywide would not be able to pay a future
judgment that approached $8.5 billion, and believed it was
reasonable to lock in a one-time payment.
This was especially so, given that it was "uncertain, at best"
whether Bank of America would be held responsible for Countrywide's
liabilities, she wrote.
Kapnick found that "the trustee did not abuse its discretion in
entering into the settlement agreement and did not act in bad faith
or outside the bounds of reasonable judgment."
Kapnick made one exception in her ruling, withholding her approval
from settlement of claims relating to certain loans that Countrywide
had modified. Bank of New York Mellon should not have settled those
claims without investigating their potential worth, she said.
It was not clear what impact the judge's exclusion would have on the
"The issue has the prospect of adding another wrinkle in the timing
of the next steps and eventually in determining when the cash flows
get paid to bondholders," analysts at Barclays said in a report for
The loan modification question was raised by Triaxx funds, which
argued during the lengthy proceedings that Bank of New York Mellon
failed to investigate claims by investors relating to the modified
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"We're still assessing the impact of the carve-out," John Moon, a
lawyer representing the Triaxx entities, said of Kapnick's
Bank of America shares closed down 1.1 percent to $16.75 Friday.
Representatives of Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon both
said they were pleased with the decision.
"We believe any outstanding issues raised in the opinion can be
addressed without undue delay," said Lawrence Grayson, a spokesman
for Bank of America.
A lawyer for AIG, Mark Zauderer, took the opposite view. He said the
insurer was pleased by the judge's exception for modified loans but
disagreed with the other aspects of the ruling.
"This case is very far from over because the settlement will not
take effect until many potential post-trial motions and appeals are
resolved," Zauderer said in a statement. He also called the loan
modification issue "critical."
Kathy Patrick, who represented the institutional investors who
supported the deal, did not return a call for comment
The settlement is part of Bank of America's efforts to put
liabilities for the financial crisis behind it. It has agreed to pay
more than $45 billion to end disputes that came from the financial
crisis, including the $8.5 billion Countrywide settlement.
Bank of New York Mellon sought judicial approval of the settlement
two-and-a-half years ago.
As the case dragged on, the number of opponents dwindled. Among
them, the attorneys general of New York and Delaware, who intervened
in the proceeding in 2011, said last May they would no longer block
the accord.
Kapnick oversaw a months-long proceeding to determine whether to
approve the settlement, which ended on November 21. [ID:nL2N0J5203]
Her ruling on Friday came just days before she was to take up a new
post on a New York state appeals court on February 3.
The case is In re Bank of New York Mellon, New York State Supreme
Court, New York County, No. 651786/2011.
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For most people, the uniform is a instant recognition for the team that they see on television or in person at the stadiums. The Phillies unifom has changed over the years but every now and again, the team will wear a throwback uniform just for the fun of it, and maybe to sell some other merchandise related to the older jersey. There was a special edition jersey issued last year by the team where the numbers and names of the players were highlighted in gold stitching on the home white jersey. The 2010 season, (on May 14th vs. Milwaukee in Milwaukee) will see the Phillies wear their 'powder blue' road uniform for the first time in many years. The current lineup of uniforms looks like those in the graphic below:
source: Wikipedia
For a lot of fans of the Phillies especially with all of their postseason appearances of late, it will be the first time that the fans see the team wearing their 1970's colors that they wore right up until the mid to late 1980's. These were the colors of the Phillies road jerseys for many, many years. The 70's uniforms looked like this one with Steve Carlton (note is has the zipper instead of the buttons):
No official unveiling of the uniform that the Phillies will wear on the 'retro' night that the Milwaukee Brewers will host on the May 14 –16th dates in 2010 but we're sure that it will amaze certain Phillies fans who have been longing to see their favorite players of today where the older style jerseys. This seems like something the Phillies should do at home to treat their own fans to a weekend of 'retro' uniforms. Here was the home Phillies jersey style in the 1970' and 1980's:
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Impressionist artist Edgar Degas is known primarily for his paintings of dancers. No other artist has such an association with the art form. Critics however, have claimed that Degas was a 'chocolate box' artist – his work is pretty to look at but lacking in depth.
The current exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, challenges these assumptions – showing that his portrayal of movement was extremely experimental and radical. The artist successfully used photographic techniques and challenged established ideas of both subject and artistic technique.
Working with the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Opera House Insights developed an event to bring art to life in the ballet studio and explore how the art form has developed over the past 150 years. The event proved hugely successful, selling out within a matter of hours. We wanted offer all those who missed out on tickets a chance to catch up with an edited version of this entertaining and informative event. You can watch it here.
At the Royal Academy of Arts, prima ballerina Darcey Bussell joined Kevin O'Hare (Administrative Director, The Royal Ballet) to talk about her career in front of the lens. She recalled working with world famous photographers such as Mario Testino and the challenges of capturing the essence of dance in one still image - a conundrum Degas faced throughout his career.
You've got until 11 December to catch the exhibition - don't miss it!
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