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The Date of Passover and the Pitfall of Inerrancy: Part 5
Part 3
Part 2
Part 1
Now it is time to critique proposition two which states:
2.) The reference in Jn 18:28 to the desire of the Jews to "eat the passover" most probably is a general reference to "celebrating the feast" which probably would have been the chagigah meal on the Day after Passover, namely, the day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. (2 Chron 30:21)
Kostenberger's argument here is essentially that phagosin tou pascha (to eat the passover) does not refer to the pesach meal which is celebrated on Passover day but refers instead to the chagigah feast on the day after Passover, the day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. He claims that "to eat the passover" would be a general phrase meant to convey a desire to "celebrate the feast" (which is itself a reference to the following seven days following the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chagigah being eaten on this first day). He cites 2 Chron 30:21 and Num 28: 18-19 to be cross referenced. Let's look at them briefly:
"And the people of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests prased YHWH day by day singing with all their might to YHWH. And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of YHWH. So the people ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to YHWH the God of their fathers." (2 Chron 30:21-22)
"On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no laborious work, but offer an offering by fire, a burnt offering to YHWH: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish." (Num 28:18-19)
It is not altogether clear why Kostenberger cites these two passages in support of his interpretation. Even reading them as they stand I do not see where Kostenberger gets the notion that these texts exhibit a tradition which uses the phrase "to eat the passover" as a circumlocution for "celebrating the feast" or more specifically, eating the chagigah. All that the first passage informs us is that the people ate food for the seven days of the feast and gave peace offerings. Likewise the second passage states simply what the people are to sacrifice on the first day of Unleavened Bread. Neither one of these texts indicate a tendancy to correlate "celebrating of the feast" with "eating the passover."
At this point, I need to make a clarication. In doing this series it may seem like I'm presenting Kostenberger's interpretations of these key passages as novel. But they are not. In fact, the first to propose the type of solutions that Kostenberger presents was Charles C. Torrey back in 1931 in Vol. 50, No. 4 (pp. 227-241) of the Journal of Biblical Literature. Thus it was Torrey who first suggested that in Jn 18:28 the phrase "to eat the passover" is a general reference to "celebrating the feast." Torrey is also responsible for seeing 2 Chron 30:21-2 as evidence for this. What he attempts to do there is to say that in vs 22 the Hebrew translates literally as "so they ate the feast" but then then says that the literal translation is too literal and that on the basis of the fact that the passage cannot mean they ate "through the feast" as some English translates the phrase. . Thus he retranslates it as "they celebrated the feast" and then states that this is equivalent in Greek to "ephagon to pascha" which is, except for a difference in tense , the same as Jn 18:28: "phagosin tou pascha." Why the translation move? Because Torrey argues that leaving it as "they ate the feast" "would imply too much eating, besides being untrue to the Hebrew" (240)
Is this convincing? Not at all. For even if we allow Torrey's shuffling around of the translations, it is still not clear at all that this passage is equating "to eat the passover" with "celebrating the feast" for no such equation is ever posited. Torrey is simply inferring this based on the fact that the previous context of 2 Chron 30 speaks of passover. The passage in its fuller context is as follows:
"And they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were put to shame, so that they sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of YHWH. They took their accustomed posts according to the law of Moses and the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites. For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had to kill the passover lamb for every one who was not clean, to make it holy to YHWH. For a multitude of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them saying, 'YHWH pardon every one who sets his heart to seek God, YHWH the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's cleaness.' And YHWH heard Hezekiah and healed the people. And the people of Israel that were present at Jersualem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness and the Levites and the priests praised YHWH day by day singinging with all their might to YHWH. And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of YHWH. So the people at the food of the festival for seven days..." (15-21)
Forgive me for quoting this passage at length but it was necessary to show one important thing, namely, that even if we grant Torrey's translation of the last sentence as "they celebrated the feast" the only time the passage uses the phrase "eat the passover" (v18) it is without a doubt in reference to the lamb which was slain for passover in v15. Moreover, the "eating of the passover" in verse 18 clearly takes place before the "celebration of the feast" in verse 21 because when the Passover was partaken of, it was done improperly which caused Hezekiah to pray for his people. It was only subsequently, after this prayer that the text tells us the people then celebrated the feast (or the seven days following the passover meal). Thus a distinction is made in the text between the passover meal and the subsequent feast of seven days. And, again, when we do find the phrase "eat the passover" it is without a doubt in reference to the lamb. There is absolutley no responsibly, exegetical way in which to argue from this passage that "to eat the passover" can generally mean "to celebrate the feast" so that Jn 18:28 can be interpreted as celebrating the feast of the chagigah.
At this point some of you may be recalling the fact that in a previous post (here) I argued that by the time of the first century some Jews, as evidenced by the gospels and Josephus, began to conflate the Day of Passover with the First Day of Unleavened Bread. If this is the case then it seems at least a possibility that the phrase "to eat the passover" could have come to refer to the chagigah feast since there was a tendancy to conflate these feast days. But let us grant that this is in fact the case and that in Jn 18:28 we should translate "to eat the passover" as "celebrate the feast" so that Jesus is crucified on the Feast of Unleavened Bread. However, recall Luke 22:7 which says:
"Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the passover lamb had to be sacrificed."
What's the problem? The problem is that as it stands in the biblical text there would still be a contradiction because Luke (and his synoptic counterparts) would be presenting Jesus as being crucified on the day after Passover/Feast of Unleavened Bread whereas John's Jesus would then be crucified on the day of Passover/Feast of Unleavened Bread. Either way you end up with a contradiction in dates. Therefore, though it initially appeared this might help Kostenberger's case in actuality there would still be a contradiction in dates between the Synoptics and the Gospel of John.


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Nine of
Ten Washington Reporters Voted for Clinton; Are Liberal by 6 to 1
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When Americans went to the polls in
1992, 43 percent voted for Bill Clinton and 38 percent for George
Bush. But the results were very different in another America, the news
media's Washington bureaus. A poll of 139 bureau chiefs and
congressional reporters discovered 89 percent pulled the lever for
Clinton and seven percent picked Bush.
In mid-April the Freedom Forum released
a report examining media-congressional relations. Buried in the
appendix were "a few final questions for classification purposes
only." These were part of a 58 question Roper Center survey completed
by mail in November and December 1995.
Asked "How would you characterize your
political orientation?" 61 percent said "liberal" or "liberal to
moderate." Only nine percent labeled themselves "conservative" or
"moderate to conservative." The poll also found that 59 percent
considered the Contract with America "an election-year campaign ploy"
while only three percent thought it was "a serious reform proposal." A
decisive 85 percent admitted they were "very" or "somewhat" surprised
by the 1994 GOP win.
So do these views affect the news?
Study chief and former Chicago Tribune reporter Elaine Povich told the
April 18 Washington Times: "One of the things about being a
professional is that you attempt to leave your personal feelings aside
as you do your work." Boston Globe Editor Matthew Storin insisted on
CNN's Reliable Sources April 21: "I think, actually, those figures are
a great endorsement for the professionalism of our business. Has
anyone looked at the coverage of Bill Clinton's administration? I
mean, it's been, almost from the get-go, negative."
On the April 28 Fox News Sunday Linda
Chavez opined that people realize reporters' personal views influence
their reporting, prompting Wall Street Journal Executive Washington
Editor Al Hunt to coun-ter: "If that poll is correct, it basically
reaffirms the argument that Linda just argued against. Which is, would
anyone argue that Bill Clinton has gotten an easy press the last three
years? If 89 percent voted for him, he's gotten an awfully tough
press." Later he asked incredulously: "You think his health care
proposals got a good press?"
One reporter on the CNN show realized
the impact. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz explained: "Clearly
anybody looking at those numbers, if they're even close to accurate,
would conclude that there is a diversity problem in the news business,
and it's not just the kind of diversity we usually talk about, which
is not getting enough minorities in the news business, but political
diversity, as well. Anybody who doesn't see that is just in denial."
To moderate its new Sunday morning public affairs
show, Fox News Sunday, the network tapped Tony Snow. Those hired by the
media who have liberal ties don't raise a concern in the journalistic
world. But the selection of the conservative Snow prompted some
reporters to question the slant of the show, although Marty Ryan, former
Executive Producer of NBC's Today, will hold the same title with Fox
News Sunday. "A rabidly conservative columnist and former speechwriter
for President George Bush, Snow knows that his right-wing image may put
off lefties," declared Philadelphia Inquirer television reporter Gail
Shister on April 8. Shister explained that "as for some critics'
contentions that Snow could be `tainted' by his Bush connections, he
says: `I've worked for half as many politicians'" as Meet the Press host
Tim Russert, who toiled for former Governor Mario Cuomo and Senator
Daniel Moynihan, both New York Democrats. The show, which premiered
April 28, is aimed at younger viewers and will include questions sent
via the internet.
Michael Kinsley, Editor of Microsoft's new online
publication, Slate, has built his team. Among those tapped by the
liberal former co-host of CNN's Crossfire: Jodie Allen, Editor of the
Washington Post Outlook section since 1990, who served under President
Carter as Deputy Secretary of Labor for policy evaluation and research.
For Slate, to debut May 31 on the internet, she'll be the Washington
First she reported the news, then she spun the news.
Now Kathleen deLaski will do both in cyberspace in a post which involves
covering Clinton's re-election effort. America Online, the on-line
computer service, National Journal reported March 16, "has hired deLaski
to direct campaign coverage for its politics channel." In 1988 she
became an on-air Washington reporter for ABC News. She jumped to the
Clinton team in 1993 as Chief Public Affairs Officer for the Defense
Department. For the past year she's been Deputy to the Undersecretary
for Policy Liaison.
Since late last year Walter Shapiro, Press Secretary
to Carter Labor Secretary Ray Marshall and a Time Senior Editor from
1987 to 1993, has penned a twice-weekly news section column for USA
Today. 20 Shapiro began his April 12 "Hype & Glory," in which he fawned
over Victor Morales, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, by
recalling his own early partisan foray: "Nearly a quarter of a century
ago, at the height of the Vietnam War, I was seized by the quixotic
notion that anti-war students deserved representation in Congress." At
the time he was a 25-year-old graduate student at the University of
Michigan. Shapiro lost, but he noted "I did come within 1,400 votes of
winning a six-way Democratic Primary. My partisan days are long behind
CNN announced in March that Ken Bode, a top aide in
Democrat Morris Udall's 1976 presidential run, will be a national
political analyst. An April 26 Washington Week in Review look at Bob
Dole's claim that Clinton has nominated liberal judges, offered a
preview of Bode's analysis. From his perch as moderator of the PBS show,
Bode asked: "So, federal judges are going to become this year's Willie
Sunday Night Soap Opera
CNN vs. the GOP
CNN Presents offered a
perfect example of how the media help block anything that lessens
federal power or control. The April 21 hour served up emotional
anecdotes about the evils of House GOP reforms, combined with
melodramatic music most reminiscent of Hard Copy and Inside
Depression-era photos of sad-looking children
accompanied by gloomy music underscored Kathy Slobogin's opening:
"Republicans want to end the 60-year federal responsibility, and give
the power to run welfare back to the states. But some fear history may
repeat itself, that when states face hard times, programs for poor
people will be the first to go."
CNN's David Lewis then followed with a report on the
Georgia state legislature. "Georgians across the political spectrum,
worry that the state, by choice or by necessity, won't be able to do
what the federal government has done. Putting those least able to care
for themselves, people like Emily Clark, at the greatest risk."
Lewis asked the mother of Emily, a three-year-old
epileptic: "What would happen if they [government programs] werent
there?" She replied, "A shiver ran through me when you said that. I
can't even imagine not only what her life would be, but what our life
would be." Lewis asserted: "There are Emilys in every state. Their
parents face an uncertain future."
Slobogin returned to accuse the GOP of risking
disaster by challenging new regulations by the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) in a sinister scheme to reward
contributors: "OSHA, the federal agency that's supposed to protect
workers...is under attack in the Republican Congress. UPS is leading the
charge. Proposals in the House would slash OSHA's enforcement budget and
keep it from cracking down on companies like UPS." As if it were
anything new, she charged: "Especially galling to critics, a UPS
lobbyist was invited to write a draft of the legislation weakening OSHA
An angle not broached: What really improves safety. A
February National Association of Manufacturers survey of members found
that when asked the sources theyve used to identify and correct safety
problems, 77 named insurance companies, 70 percent said "employee
suggestions," but just 9 percent cited OSHA.
Janet Cooke Award
CBS Reporter Terence Smith Touts Politicized
Lawyers' Work "For The Poor"
To convince Congress they deserve more funding,
advocates of government programs regularly highlight examples of all
those the program benefits. Reporters should look for the reality. For
touting the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) as if he were on staff,
CBS's Terence Smith earned the Janet Cooke Award. His April 28 Sunday
Morning story focused on Legal Services of Greater Miami: "They deal
mostly with bread-and-butter issues: housing, employment, custody,
divorce. The concept of helping the poor with their problems would seem,
on the face of it, to be something most Americans could agree upon. But
Legal Services is one of those hot-button issues that divides people on
political, practical, and ideological grounds." CBS did not present a
balanced slate of proponents and opponents, with 18 soundbites of LSC
backers and three from LSC opponent Rep. Charles Taylor (R-N.C.), who
revealed: "Many of the cases that I've seen are very extreme, radical
areas that are being funded by the taxpayers...It is not the average
elderly person being evicted from homes that you would have people
believe that you defend. There's more of this radical view, I see,
funded by the taxpayer." Smith never allowed Taylor to elaborate. For
decades, the LSC has used its grants to fight against conservative
policies. As LSC chairman, Hillary Clinton funneled taxpayer money into
defeating a 1980 California ballot initiative (Proposition 9) to cut
state income taxes in half. In 1983, the General Accounting Office cited
the LSC for violating statutory bars against partisan activity. In 1994,
The Washington Times reported the state of California was forced by the
LSC-funded Western Center on Law and Poverty to revoke a 2.3 percent
reduction in welfare payments, costing an estimated $5.6 million a
month. They also filed successful suits to increase payments to MediCal,
the state's Medicaid plan, and force the state to pay day been
terminated by this particular time." 20 Smith moved on: "Barbara Goulsby
is the Legal Services attorney for Damon Johnson, and 36 families who
lost their possessions when Miami police suddenly evicted them from
their apartment building in a drug-infested neighborhood. The city said
the building was a center for drug activity." To complete the picture of
victims, Smith added: "Daniel Barker, another Legal Services attorney,
is helping Deborah Williams fight eviction from her apartment...He
interceded with the public housing authority, which had accused her of
having unauthorized persons living in the apartment." Smith asked
Williams: "Where would you have been without Legal Services?...On the
street?" Williams agreed: "Yes, exactly, okay?" CBS did not investigate
whether LSC grantees use tax dollars to fight the eviction of drug
dealers from public housing. The August 15, 1994 New York Times reported
a group representing 500,000 New York tenants entered a case to back
expedited eviction of drug dealers, only to be opposed by the Legal Aid
Society, an LSC grantee. (New York public housing officials declared
drug-related arrests in their complexes grew from 813 in 1973 to 11,092
in 1993). As Boehm testified to Congress: "A program determined to use
public funds to keep drug dealers in public housing -- in the name of
helping the poor -- is a program that's lost what it means to help the
poor." Smith asked: "So what are the prospects for Legal Services, given
the current political climate?...Charles Taylor wants to kill the
program." Taylor declared: "We've been able to take it from $400 million
down to 283, right at the moment. We need to take it to zero." Smith
noted: "That won't happen this year. But last week Congress imposed new
restrictions on Legal Service attorneys, barring them from bringing
class-action suits, challenging welfare reform, and representing many
immigrants." Smith did not explain why the new restrictions were
necessary. Taylor's press secretary, Jack Cox, told MediaWatch the CBS
story followed a formula: "Every single time we've done an interview,
the reporter finds one local group, interviews a few nice little fuzzy
cases where people say `I couldn't live without them,' and then they
quote us saying `Zero it out.' They never let us give the justifications
for zeroing it out. I sat in on the CBS interview for more than an hour.
[Taylor] must have hammered home the drug-dealer issue about 40 times to
get it into the piece." It didn't get in. Smith told MediaWatch he stood
by his use of Taylor: "I would argue that's a very full description of
his view of Legal Services." As for the story's imbalance, Smith
declared, "Obviously, I think it was fair." When asked about
drug-related evictions, Smith protested that he was unfamiliar with the
New York case and insisted: "Taylor did not cite a single specific case.
When I asked attorneys in Florida, they said they'd never represent a
convicted drug pusher."
Time and Time
Again. "Raise Gas Taxes Now!" blared the
headline over a May 13 Time piece by contributing editor Matthew
Miller. The subhead: "The U.S. pays a huge price for still-too-cheap
gasoline. Higher fuel taxes can clean the air and lower the deficit."
The gas tax debate allowed Time to return to old form. Back in
1993 MediaWatch determined that at least 24 times in the
previous for years the magazine had demanded a gas tax hike.
Miller argued: "At roughly a billion dollars a penny
in annual revenue, a 50 cent gas tax would slice a quarter off our
budget deficit by 2000, while still leaving prices 20 percent below
their 1981 high and less than half what motorists abroad pay." He
decried a stingy public: "In 1993 Americans found 4 cents on top of
$1.20-per-gal. gas almost too much to bear, even while we bequeath our
children dirtier air, the continued risk of war over oil and a trillion
dollars in fresh debt every four years. Now Doles trying to get that
nickel back for us. He ought to know better."
Faw Pas. NBC's Bob Faw
surprised Today viewers April 10 with footage of Bill Clinton
leaving a memorial service for Ron Brown. Clinton laughed until he
spotted a camera -- and then dropped his head and began to wipe phantom
tears from his eyes. NBC was the only network to air the video but even
Faw tried to soften Clinton's moment of fraudulence: "Rituals like this
do matter, while they hardly define a presidency or make up for its
shortcomings, they help a nation heal, and in the process they shed
light on whether a president is compassionate, an actor, or both."
But journalists would rather eat their own than
criticize Clinton. The media panel on CNN's Reliable Sources
unanimously bashed Faw on April 14. Martin Schram of Scripps-Howard
scowled: "I used to think that the low for television was that
in-your-face journalism, when they would put a camera and a microphone
in a guy's face and chase him down the street. This is worse, this is
in-your-head journalism." PBSs Ellen Hume added: "In this case Bob just
went way overboard, and he went into territory he has no idea what was
genuine and what wasn't."
In a spin-control job the White House would envy,
Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz made up a new scenario: "You
could be at the funeral of a friend and you could be talking and
accepting condolences, and then when you go up to make a speech, you
kind of choke up because you're emotional about it. What's so crazy,
what's, what's noteworthy about that?" Host Bernard Kalb concluded: "How
does a reporter trivialize the President's emotions or the President's
sincerity? I don't know where the starting point is for that sort of
journalism, but I find it, as you do, Ellen, clearly unacceptable."
The Very White House.
President Clinton's trip to a Miami public school to announce his salvo
in the war on drugs set off controversy. According to an AP story in the
May 3 New York Times, "At issue was a decision by a White House
aide to reject a local group's recommendation that Mr. Clinton be
introduced at an anti-drug event by a black teenager and to request a
white speaker instead." But the race-conscious "mainstreaming" received
no network coverage. Neither did Hillary Clinton's racial gaffe in a
speech to the liberal womens PAC Emilys List. On April 27, Los
Angeles Times reporter John Broder noted she affected a black accent
to recount San Francisco mayor Willie Brown asking who is this "Emily
List":"She's supportin' all these people. She's supportin' Sen. Dianne
Feinstein. She's supported Sen. Barbara Boxer....She supported
everybody. Why won't she support me?"
Ed Rollins didn't get the same benefit of the doubt
when he spoke at a May 1995 Brown roast, when Brown was Speaker of the
California Assembly. Rollins, putting words into Brown's mouth, said
that if elected Mayor of Los Angeles, Brown "could show those Hymie boys
Berman and Waxman [Democratic Congressmen] who were always trying to
make Willie feel inferior for not being Jewish." CNN devoted five
stories to Rollins' remark (with Jill Dougherty calling it a "slur") and
his subsequent resignation from the Dole campaign.
Morales Boosters. Victor
Morales and Al Salvi surprised their respective party establishments
during recent Senate race primaries, with Morales winning the April 9
Democratic nomination in Texas and Al Salvi gaining the GOP nomination
in Illinois on March 19. But judging by network coverage, the
similarities ended there. After Morales' victory, he garnered in-studio
guest slots on CBS This Morning and ABC's Good Morning America,
as well as CNN's Inside Politics. NBC's Today show had
already profiled Morales in March, before any votes were cast. In all,
Morales' win garnered six network stories.
Meanwhile, Al Salvi, who shocked moderate Lt. Gov. Bob
Kustra, only made the CNN show Inside Politics. Even in the
mostly favorable "Play of the Week" story by CNNs Bill Schneider, Salvi
was labeled a "very conservative" surprise who demonstrated how
conservatives can lose "the nasty edge a lot of conservatives seem to
have these days." Schneider referred to Salvi's conservatism five times.
The Big Three completely ignored the race.
Rosty Dearest. On April
9, former Illinois Congressman and Ways and Means Committee boss Dan
Rostenkowski pled guilty to two felony counts of corruption while in
Congress. The night of and morning after the plea, the Big Three
networks read anchor-briefs on his conviction. Time, U.S. News and
World Report, and Newsweek also kept the conviction to tiny
one- or two-paragraph blurbs in their April 22 editions (although
Newsweek broke the plea story the week before).
ABCs Cokie Roberts was the only network reporter to
address the story. On the April 14 This Week, Roberts hurled a
softball to Rosty about his good intentions. She recalled that in 1992
she asked him, "'Why are you running for re-election when you could just
go home and have this money.' You said 'I want to get healthcare done, I
want to hang that scalp on my wall.' Here it is four years later, you've
spent $2 million in legal fees, you're about to go to jail and health
care isn't done. What are you feeling?"
Invisible Cardinals. On
April 1, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops sponsored a
candlelight vigil with two Cardinals outside the White House to urge
Clinton to sign the partial birth abortion ban, but the broadcast
networks ignored it. Today gave 11 seconds to the protest, but
didnt mention the Cardinals. Only CNN gave it a full story plus
Crossfire.(ABC's This Week with David Brinkley later
interviewed Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston on April 21.) The vigil got
even less publicity in print; no major newspaper or news magazine
touched the event.
It was another story when President Clinton vetoed the
bill on April 10. That received front-page coverage in the Los
Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post.
The Posts Ann Devroy wrote: "The veto came in an emotional
Roosevelt Room ceremony where five women sometimes tearfully described
having had such abortions." NBC's Tom Brokaw also described the ceremony
as "emotional." Every evening news program reported on the veto
ceremony, but ABC's World News Tonight was the only network to
include comments from pro-life advocates.
But when the bishops criticized GOP welfare reform in
march 1995, ABCs Good Morning America, CNNs Inside Politics
and NBC Nightly News aired full stories.
What Liberal Judges? Bob
Dole's insisted that Bill Clinton names liberal judges. "Are Clinton
Judges Too Liberal?" asked USA Today's May 7 front page. The
answer in the subhead: "Dole May Be Out of Order." Tony Mauro asserted:
"Studies indicate that the 187 men and women Clinton has placed on the
bench are markedly moderate."
The Washington Post's
Joan Biskupic felt so strongly Dole was wrong she wrote a Sunday Outlook
section editorial on April 28 charging "Dole's characterization of the
judiciary is way out of date." In a March 9 news story, Biskupic had
insisted "the 'liberal' justices appointed by President Clinton are
hardly extreme...[Pat] Buchanan often targets [Justice Ruth Bader]
Ginsburg, who was appointed in 1993 and on the Rehnquist court is
comparatively liberal." Later she found ideology in Justice Antonin
Scalia, calling him "distinctively brash, opinionated and far to the
right in his view of constitutional limits." Other reporters agreed on
Clinton's moderate picks. On March 23, New York Times reporter
Linda Greenhouse found "the Clinton nominees compromise a moderate,
mainstream group." Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Barrett
argued on April 3: "the White House angered liberal activists by picking
many moderates and steering away from some strongly ideological
But the Free Congress foundations Thomas Jipping
managed to learn, as he noted in the May 20 National Review, "some of
Clintons appointees...have ruled for the defendant in every
criminal-law opinion they have written."
Fine Distinctions on the Left...The
national media were quick to connect the dots between the Oklahoma City
bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh and conservative talk radio hosts and
politicians, blurring any distinctions. But the discovery of Unabomber
suspect Ted Kaczynski led reporters to draw precise distinctions between
the Unabomber and his sympathizers.
On the April 17 World News Tonight, Peter
Jennings ignored the Unabomber's trail of deaths: "A small but
determined group of rejectionists traces its roots to the Luddites of
the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago. English workers, in that case,
who destroyed the machinery they thought would rob them of their jobs.
Today's movement is kinder and gentler." After talking to people from
both sides of the anti-technology spectrum, reporter Ned Potter
insisted: "In truth, anti-tech sentiment runs the gamut, from extremists
like the Unabomber to radical environmental groups like Earth First to
ordinary people, uncomfortable with the pace of the modern world."
New York Times reporter
Dirk Johnson also excluded the Unabomber in an April 15 piece on a
Luddite gathering: "Today's Luddites differ from their forebears in
other important ways as well. For one, they oppose violence....The
Unabom case has focused more attention on antipathy toward the advances
of technology. In fact, the Unabomber's published manifesto included
references to Luddism. While nobody here agreed with the actions of the
bomber, several people said his fears were rational."
...No Distinctions on the Right.
Reporters still weave a conspiracy between talk show hosts, the militia
movement, the NRA, and Newt Gingrich for the Oklahoma City bombing.
NPRs Mara Liasson asked on the April 19 Washington Week in Review
on PBS: "When the President went out to Oklahoma City last year and made
those comments about loud and angry voices, he also made some other
comments about certain conservative talk show hosts, that was very
controversial. Do people in Oklahoma City connect the loud and angry
voices with what happened to them?" Gloria Borger of U.S. News &
World Report replied: "Yes, they're not happy about the G. Gordon
Liddys of the world. They're not happy about the name calling that goes
on on talk radio....We used to be able to passionately disagree about
issues without threatening each other." When Borger noted the need to
"lower the decibel level," host Ken Bode interjected: "Well, one of the
people who has got to take some of that advice is the Speaker of the
CNN's Marc Watts made a similar connection to Oklahoma
City on the April 19 Inside Politics: "After that tragedy the NRA
was accused of promoting the anti-government sentiment that may have
spurred the bombing...The organization said it was all a
misunderstanding and it denies any involvement in the blast."
Who said the NRA was "involved"?
McDougal Trial, Senate Hearings Filibuster, and
Other Whitewater News Downplayed
Trial? What Whitewater Trial?
On Sunday, April 28, President Clinton videotaped
testimony in the fraud trial of James and Susan McDougal, his business
partners in Whitewater Development, and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker.
Recognizing the gravity of a President testifying for the defense of his
business partners, most of the networks covered the story that night.
But what about the rest of the trial?
To determine how much coverage the Whitewater trial
and related stories generated, MediaWatch analysts
reviewed network morning news and evening news programs on ABC, CBS,
CNN, and NBC from February 29, a few days before the trial began, to
April 30, as the trial neared its end. Analysts also reviewed
corresponding news magazine coverage in Time, Newsweek,
and U.S. News & World Report from issues dated March 4 to May 6.
In nearly two months of the trial, the four networks aired only 16
reporter-based Whitewater stories on the evening news shows -- an
average of less than four per network over a two-month period. Seven of
the 16 (44 percent) were on the President's testimony. Although Time
carried a long cover story excerpting James Stewart's Whitewater book
Blood Sport, the news magazines devoted fewer pages to the
Whitewater trial than to the Jackie Onassis auction.
Some significant stories barely or never made the air.
On February 29 and again on March 7, Senate Democrats blocked votes
extending the tenure of the Senate Whitewater Committee. The Democrats
upheld further hearings until agreeing to a deal on April 18. One Jackie
Judd report on ABC's World News Tonight and an anchor brief on
ABC's Good Morning America and on CNN's The World Today
were the only coverage of the Democratic filibuster until hearings
resumed April 24. Jennings introduced the Judd story by calling it the
"endless Whitewater saga."
On March 15, a federal appeals court removed Judge
Henry Woods from the Jim Guy Tucker case and reinstated four fraud
counts struck down by Woods, finding the judge was too close to the
Clintons. Despite several network stories and a Nightline on the
integrity of independent counsel Kenneth Starr, the networks never
covered this story.
On March 24, an ABC News/Washington Post poll
found 52 percent of respondents believed the First Lady was not telling
the truth about Whitewater and 49 percent said they thought she acted
illegally. While the Post published the poll on page A16, ABC
never reported it. When word leaked on April 29 that the FBI found
Hillary Clinton's fingerprints on the long-missing Rose Law Firm
documents discovered in the White House, it drew only four anchor
briefs. To break down the coverage by network and show:
Evening News. The most
stunning lack of coverage came from NBC Nightly News, which did
not air a single reporter-based story in two months -- and only two
anchor briefs. (Due to NBA basketball coverage, NBC had no newscast the
night of Clinton's testimony.) CNN's The World Today aired six
reporter-based stories, one of which was followed with analysis by CNN
legal expert Roger Cossack. ABC's World News Tonight aired six
reporter-based stories from Jackie Judd. CBS Evening News aired
four reports, including an April 24 story by Phil Jones questioning the
integrity of Starr. (The evening shows aired 25 anchor briefs, 16 of
them on CNN.)
Morning Shows. The three
network morning shows aired only 12 reporter-based stories and five
interviews in two months. Again, around half the coverage (seven of the
12 stories and two of the five interviews) concerned Clinton's
testimony. Here, surprisingly, NBC's Today did the most, airing
four reports and two interviews with Blood Sport author James
Stewart. CBS This Morning and Sunday Morning aired four
reports and one interview with Stewart. ABC's Good Morning America
aired three reports and an interview with ABC's Cokie Roberts and
Time Managing Editor Walter Isaacson on Blood Sport. (The
shows ran 26 anchor briefs.)
Magazine/Interview Stories.
None of the magazine shows covered Whitewater -- but then, from 1992
forward, the magazine shows combined have aired only two segments on it.
In the last two months, CNN's Late Edition did
the most, asking one question to Sen. Al D'Amato on March 24, and airing
a Bob Franken report on April 28, followed by five questions to guests.
NBC's Meet the Press had four Whitewater questions on two shows.
ABC's This Week with David Brinkley asked Leon Panetta one
question on April 28 about Clinton's testimony. Whitewater never came up
on CBS's Face the Nation.
Nightline, which did five
shows on Whitewater in January, posed one question to Bob Dole on
whether Whitewater should be wrapped up, and an April 24 program on the
"controversy raging" around Ken Starr.
News Magazines. Time
set itself apart from the competition with its 15-page excerpt of
Stewart's book in the March 18 issue. But Time did no reporting
on its own. Its only coverage of any length came in two Margaret Carlson
columns pooh-poohing the scandal's importance.
U.S. News & World Report
reviewed the upcoming trial in two pages on March 4, but did no other
article a page or longer. The March 11 issue had a brief on the hearings
debate headlined: "Whitewater: Time for the Curtain?" U.S. News
owner and Editor-in-Chief Mortimer Zuckerman wrote a two-page editorial
attacking "The Silly Hillary Pillory" on April 1. Newsweek ran
one-page pieces on aspects of Whitewater on March 4 and 11, but nothing
substantial after that. In their May 6 editions however, Newsweek
devoted six pages to the Jackie Onassis auction. Time made it its
cover story and gave it eight pages. U.S. News kept its Jackie O
coverage to two pages.
Zuckerman may have captured the media's collective
death wish for Whitewater on CNBC's Cal Thomas show March 24: "I don't
think there's anything there unless Kenneth Starr does come up with
anything. And the fact that there is a trial going on, I think is not
going to be relevant to what the elections are going to be all about.
You can't run an election based on attacking the President's wife."
the Bright Side
NBC: Tough on Criminals?
Any suggested link between crime and welfare
dependency is usually dismissed by the media as Willie Horton redux.
However, Elizabeth Vargas' March 26 Dateline report showed that
current welfare rules pay scofflaws while keeping them safe from cops.
Vargas noted there are "more than 415,000 fugitives on
the lam across the country, men and women wanted by the law for serious
crimes." After a fruitless morning with an Ohio Sheriffs department,
knocking on doors searching for fugitives, she noted that "just a few
blocks away from the sheriff's department is all the information those
officers say they need. Here in this office are the names, addresses,
phone numbers, even photographs, of some of those fugitives from
justice. People fleeing from the law but not from the welfare
Vargas found the irony: "So, while one government
agency spends your tax dollars to find fugitives from the law, another
govern-ment agency gives more of your tax dollars, welfare, to fugitives
in hiding." After local welfare director Joseph Garcia told Vargas the
police were on a "fishing expedition" targeting the poor, Vargas noted
that after the sheriff went public with his battle against privacy laws
preventing welfare agents from sharing names and addresses, "deputies
are getting some information."
Robert Hager probed the same politically incorrect
line in his "Fleecing of America" report on the April 24 Nightly News,
reporting the General Accounting Office findings of prisoners calling
the Agriculture Department -- collect: "652 collect calls accepted from
18 prisons in all, in just the four months auditors sampled." Hager
explained, "The prisoners had found dishonest employees at the
Agricultural Department's Washington head-quarters, willing to forward
on their calls long-distance to whomever the prisoners wanted to talk
to, private individuals, anywhere, at taxpayers expense," -- even calls
to sex lines in the Dominican Republic.
Davis-Bacon Discriminates
In 1931, Congress passed the Davis-Bacon Act, prompted
by white laborers who were upset that blacks were underbidding them on
government contracts. Davis-Bacon sets a high wage level for contractors
that build government buildings. On the April 12 20/20, ABC's
John Stossel looked at how this regulation continues to cost taxpayers
millions while benefitting unions.
Stossel started at the Labor Department, the agency
that enforces Davis-Bacon: "Dozens of them [employees] here, and others
in state and city labor departments, spend their time deciding what
construction workers on government projects must be paid. The result?
Government buildings cost more and poor people who want to work can't."
Stossel explained:"A side effect of fixing wages is
that some workers end up being excluded." At Cabrini Green in Chicago,
one of the nation's poorest housing projects, the government is doing
repairs. Cabrini Green residents would like to do the work, but as
Stossel learned: "They can't get hired because when contractors are
forced to pay high Davis Bacon salaries even for the simplest jobs,
they're not going to take a chance on inexperienced strangers."
Back Page
ABC's Avuncular Star On the Left
Hugh Downs' Hate Radio
Hugh Downs may seem harmless hosting 20/20, but
in the Spring Forbes MediaCritic Steve Kroll revealed another
side -- a liberal ideologue in weekly commentaries for ABC Radio's
Perspectives. From 1990: "The Reagan-Bush team did more than just
support dictatorial rule around the world. It helped foster a climate of
dictatorship at home." In 1994, on the Gulf War: "Nobody in his right
mind would incinerate or blow up innocent children, but that's exactly
what the United Nation's said that American bombs did in Iraq."
Downs had quite a conspiratorial view of the
discredited October Surprise theory, which he said "has tentacles that
reach deep into the empire of Manuel Noriega, into the scandal at BCCI,
and into the...destruction of Iraq....For 11 years suspicions have grown
that renegade intelligence officers illegally seized the American
government....There is a growing number of reasons to believe that the
October Surprise is true."
Finally, Kroll noted that Downs attempted to "liken
Ronald Reagan to a communist dictator because he entertained the idea of
repealing the 22nd Amendment, which limits a President to two terms.
While Gorbachev attempts `to liberalize the Soviet Union by adopting
Thomas Jefferson's democracy,' opined Downs, Reagan `in almost
mirror-like fashion,' moves `toward absolute rule.'"
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Bulldogs Fall after Scoreless Tie in Double Overtime
PHILADELPHIA – With a history of closely played contests, the Yale-Penn field hockey series reached a new level on Saturday afternoon at Vagelos Field. After 70 minutes of regulation play and a pair of overtimes totaling 30 minutes, neither team had scored. The game was thus decided by a shootout -- with the Quakers scoring twice and Yale scoring once -- for a final score of 1-0 Penn.
That was the 17th time in the last 21 meetings between these two teams that the game was decided by one goal. This was Penn's first experience with the shootout system determining a game; Yale had played one such game, falling 3-2 at Quinnipiac two years ago.
Penn (11-3, 4-1 Ivy League) had a decided edge in corners in the first half, 6-2, but the Bulldogs still outshot the Quakers 6-4. The Yale shot advantage increased in the second half, 10-5, but still the Bulldogs could not get one past Penn keeper Carly Sokach. Sokach also made four saves in the first overtime and two in the second, and freshman forward Rhoni Gericke hit the post with a shot in the first overtime. Sokach finished with 15 saves, getting help from back/midfielder Helene Caniglia in the form of a defensive save in the second half.
Yale junior goalkeeper Heather Schlesier totaled six saves, and senior midfielder/back Georgia Holland added a defensive save -- her seventh defensive save in the last three games.
After the two scoreless 15-minute overtimes, a best-of-five shootout determined the winner. Neither team scored in the first two rounds, but Penn went ahead 1-0 in the third on a goal by attacker Elizabeth Hitti. Yale senior midfielder Emily Schuckert shot one in high to tie the score 1-1 in the fourth round.
In the decisive fifth round, attacker Julie Tahan put Penn ahead 2-1. Sokach then denied a shot by Holland, who had been awarded a penalty stroke after being tripped by Sokach on the initial attempt.
Yale (6-8, 2-3 Ivy League) visits Columbia next Friday.


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I always thought October was the season for frights and pumpkin pie, but apparently it is also the season of engagements. This month Kim Kardashian and Ciara got affianced around the same time. I know you are itching to know which lucky lady is having the best engagement so far, so let the Pop-Off begin! Read More


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass.—In a matchup between two of the top 11 teams in the regional rankings, UMass Boston (11-1, 4-0 Little East Conference) overcame a tough road environment to earn a 2-1 victory over their in-state rivals UMass Dartmouth (9-2-1, 3-1 LEC) at the UMass Darmouth Athletic Complex Saturday afternoon.
Juniors Sam Cristoforo (Rockland, Mass.) and Tayla Andrews (Plymouth, Mass.) each scored a goal to help the Beacons earn their first ever 4-0 start in Little East Conference play. With the win, the Beacons increased their unbeaten streak to nine games (7-0-2) over the Corsairs and find themselves tied with Eastern Connecticut State University atop the LEC standings at 4-0.
Cristoforo scored her team-leading fourth game-winning goal of the season with less than 16 minutes remaining in the contest. The center-midfielder dribbled through the midfield and sent a low, hard strike from 25 yards out past UMass Dartmouth goalie Krista Chauvin.
The junior from Rockland has already set career-highs in goals (six), assists (seven) and points (19) and is sixth in the conference in points.
While Cristoforo came up with the late strike, it was Andrews who provided most of the offensive pressure. The former Little East Conference Rookie of the Year scored the first goal of the game nearly 25 minutes in, off a pass from Anna O'Donoghue (Swansea, Mass.). Andrews would continue to pressure the Dartmouth defense, creating multiple chances and having several shots go just wide.
For O'Donoghue, it was her first point of her senior campaign and her third career assist.
Sophomore goalkeeper Kristen Spain (Quincy, Mass.) had another strong start, making nine saves, including several stop late in the game to move to 10-1 on the year.
Reigning Little East Conference Goalie of the Week Krista Chauvin made nine stops for the Corsairs. Chauvin came up with a highlight reel save midway through the second half on an Andrews shot, to keep the score tied at one.
It took twenty minutes for the 10th ranked Corsairs and 11th ranked Beacons to feel each other out, as the teams managed just four shots in that span.
Andrews broke the scoreless draw at the 24:53 mark, for her thirteenth goal of the season. The junior is now tied with Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, Mass.) for the team lead and Little East Conference lead in goals.
Shelby Friedland would tie the score at one less than 10 minutes later. After taking a pass from Jillian Van Ness, Friedland buried a rebound past Spain, for her third goal of the year.
At halftime, UMass Boston held a slight lead in shots 9-7 and recorded the only two corner kicks of the stanza.
The second half started with a burst from UMass Dartmouth, who was trying to stay undefeated at home (6-1).
After withstanding several early Corsairs chances, UMass Boston took a 2-1 edge at the 73:48 mark when Cristoforo scored her sixth career game-winning goal.
UMass Boston would have to withstand three Corsairs chances in the final 10 minutes, including a corner kick with under a minute to play, but Spain would be up to the task.
For the game, the Beacons outshot UMass Dartmouth 19-14, but the Corsairs held a 3-2 edge in corner kicks.
UMass Boston will begin a three-game homestand on Thursday, when they host the Wentworth Institute of Technology at 3:30 p.m.


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Clemson's star receiver Sammy Watkins has taken pride in adding more toughness to his game, and he'll need every bit of it when the Tigers host the Seminoles in the biggest ACC game in recent years.
During Florida State's 49-37 win over Clemson last season, there was a statistical oddity among all the big numbers that was as shocking as it was telling.
Clemson star receiver Sammy Watkins actually threw for more yards (52 on a trick-play touchdown completion to Andre Ellington) than he caught (24 on six receptions). The ridiculously low average yards per catch was glaring in showing the speedster wasn't able to burst off the line, and the fact Clemson dug deep into its bag of tricks displayed a lack of confidence going mano-a-mano against the Seminoles.
FSU is one of the few teams with the gusto to play press coverage and create one-on-one matchups against receivers no matter the level of competition. Watkins said he's a different kind of player this season, more prepared for a rigorous battle based more on substance than style.
"Most definitely I'm bigger, stronger, faster and smarter," Watkins said. "I accepted the challenge that they'll press us the whole game, be in Cover 1. I think everybody in our receiving corps has grown from being that prima donna just wanting to catch the ball. We took the challenge from our coaches and other teams that we were soft and I do sense that we're now (all-around) receivers and not just playmakers."
Watkins acknowledged that becoming a more physical player in all aspects, from downfield blocking to taking hits and being stronger off the line of scrimmage, was his lone goal after the end of last season.
"That's all I focused on this offseason. I didn't even care about catching the ball this spring. I think we all accepted the challenge and we'll all be prepared for this game."
Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris said Monday that Florida State physically whipped and embarrassed his receivers last season and that the Tigers pass-catchers spent more time on the ground than the ball did.
"I don't think they embarrassed us, but they won that matchup," Watkins said. "They eliminated the big plays and we didn't make as many plays (overall). We weren't getting off the ball very well and we were looking for (penalties) and things like that, not playing all the way through plays. Now I think we're all doing a great job of playing through pass interference and not looking for calls. If they call something, they call it."
Those tough one-on-one matchups will come all over the field, but if a defense can deny Clemson's receivers from doing what they want to do, it will make for a long night for the hosts in Death Valley.
"At the end of the day, this game comes down to really who wants it more and can you beat that guy in front of you," Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd said. "It comes down to that (at all positions). Florida State isn't going to do a lot of complicated things. They feel like they can bring pressure with what they've got (without blitzing) and cover you on the back end.
"It's a challenge for us out there on the perimeter at receiver. I feel like my guys are confident and I know they're ready for it. Last year in some situations they got the better of us."
To be fair to Watkins, last year's FSU matchup in Week 4 was his first time attempting to play in a full-game capacity after serving a two-game suspension before returning the prior week to play sparingly in a blowout win over Furman. He arrived in Tallahassee with only 38 snaps under his belt and lacking a bit of cohesiveness with his quarterback.
"I don't think it affected the way I played," Watkins said. "It was in my head, but at the same time I was out there trying to make plays. I think after missing two games me and Tajh didn't have the right communication, but (FSU) still did a great of putting their hands on me and being physical with me."
Boyd said he hadn't much discussed with Watkins whether his go-to guy still carries any angst regarding having a subpar performance last season when his team desperately needed him in one of the year's most important outings.
"I know it still resonates with him," Boyd said. "At the end of the day you want to go out there and perform and prove that you're that caliber of player. Sammy feels like he's the best receiver in the country and I feel like that as well. At the end of the day you just got to go out there and prove it."


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New skatepark being built at Fort Hall
Fort Hall skateboard Talon Teton and his friends will soon have a skate park to call their own.
Teton participated in the groundbreaking for the Shoshone-Bannock Skate Park on Friday.
"Right now I'm at Jensen Grove in Blackfoot skating every day," Teton said. "I've been skating six years. It's a good way to stay in shape."
The Snake River High School senior and his friends will have another venue by August.
That's when the 4,800-square foot in-ground facility will open. It's also when a Grand Slam Skate Jam is scheduled as part of the Annual Shoshone-Bannock Festival.
Teton and Brad Beech of Pocatello joined several other people in speaking about the project.
"I'm really excited," Beech said. "It will be a good opportunity for all the kids. It will be a nice smooth concrete park. I would like to see the community get together and support this skate park."
Alonzo Coby, the project manager, said the park has been in the works a lot of years. He noted it will be the first phase of a sports and wellness complex.
"This is a park that's going to get used to the fullest, probably for years," said Rebecca Washakie.
Emma George added, "I'm really excited for our youth. We need more activities for our youth. This is for our future generations."
Seekie Dixey said, "I'm glad to have this skatepark being built to keep me out of trouble."
The skaters all recalled being chased away from the clinic and the gym as they enjoyed their sport.
Mike Sakelaris said, "it's about time the adults take charge and do something for our youth."
He added that the youth people need to take responsibility for keeping the facility clean and free of grafitti.


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Hi All! We're reposting this recipe today because it's one of my all time favorite soups ever, PLUS the Seinfeld soup Nazi thing will never ever get old. Although there are a plethora of Mulligatawny variations, from thin and broth-y to thick and rich, our falls under the "thick and rich" category. Don't let the laundry list of ingredients scare you! This recipe is actually fairly easy despite what the list of ingredients might have you thinking. This is the perfect 'cozy' recipe for any chilly night and I highly recommend some of you giving it a whirl…it's totally worth it, I promise!! Enjoy! Today we have a soup for you that more of you might know about than you think… Mulligatawny! If some of you are still scratching your head, lets just say it was popularized by THIS guy, as one of his most prized soups (best episode ever, right?!). If you've never had it before that needs to change! I've had mulligatawny a number of times and each time I've had it, it's been totally different.
The first time I had it was in London, when I was in high school. A "classic" version was set in front of me and I got a little sad. It looked like very watered down broth with bits of stewed onions, cabbage and black pepper sprinkled all around. When I tasted it though, the black pepper really stood out and the brothy soup ended up being pretty tasty when sopped up with warm, toasty crumpets. The next time I had it was back in the states. My family and I were trying out a new Indian restaurant that had opened up in our neighborhood. When I ordered the soup I didn't even realize it was the "same" as what I had gotten in London. This soup was thick, creamy and bright yellow. It was filled with earthy spices like cumin, paprika, cardamom and also had sweet notes to it, which I later found out was from a combination of sautéed apples and raisins. The soup was served with rice and topped with this delicious braised and shredded lamb. So flavorful, and unique!
That night I discovered that there are hundred upon hundreds of versions of Mulligatawny, each different and special in its own way. I love that. So today we have our own version of one of my favorite soups! I went with the pureed creamy version because pureed and creamy is delicious and you still get nice texture from the rice, chicken, cilantro, and raisins. Don't let the laundry list of ingredients intimidate you, this soup is actually very easy to throw together and everything goes into one pot, which is great and makes for an easy clean up! This soup also stores and reheats very well. Great for anytime of the day year round. This is my go to soup when I want something a little different, filling and absolutely delicious! xx, Jenny
Serves 4 to 6
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
1 yellow onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, diced
1 medium carrot, peeled and diced
1 red jalapeno, seeded and diced
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 teaspoons fresh ginger, peeled and minced
2 small apples, peeled, cored and diced
1 roma tomato, seeded and diced
2 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1 tablespoon minced thyme
1/2 cup red or yellow lentils (uncooked)
3 cups chicken stock
2/3cup coconut milk
salt to and extra black pepper to taste
toppings and garnish:
cooked jasmine rice
roasted and shredded chicken breast
golden raisins
cilantro, roughly chopped
1. Place a large pot over medium-high heat and melt butter. Add onion, celery, carrot, and jalapeno and sauté for 5 minutes. Add garlic, ginger, apples, and tomato and continue to sauté for an additional 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
2. Add all the spices, thyme and lentils to the pot and sauté for 3 minutes. Add stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, medium-low and simmer mixture for about 30 to 40 minutes or until lentils have cooked through.
3. Pour mixture into a blender or using and immersion blender, puree until smooth.
4. Pour mixture back into the pot and simmer for 2 minutes. Stir in coconut milk and adjust seasonings.
5. To serve: Place about 1/2 cup of rice at the bottom of each bowl and top with a ladle of soup. Top soup with shredded chicken, a sprinkle of raisins and finally the cilantro. Season with freshly cracked black pepper. Serve.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 22:29 UTC, submitted by Nemilar
"Its official release is just under three months away, and Ubuntu 8.04, or Hardy Heron, promises some great improvements over the already user-friendly Ubuntu 7.10 (also known as Gusty Gibbon). This is a look at the fourth Alpha release of Hardy; including many of the applications that are now included by default and the major changes that will improve stability and usability. Among these are the addition of Firefox 3 and Remote Desktop on the applications side, and a new method for systems control known as Policy Kit, which enables the administrator to unlock certain functions for normal users."


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My Lady In Pink
My Lady In Pink, "I jest live one day at a time...that's all I gots!!!"
"God grant me the
SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change
COURAGE to change the things I can, And the
WISDOM to know the difference"
May I simply introduce you to, "My Lady In Pink!" I found her years ago on a road in Mississippi called the Sturgis/Maben Road way out in our Oktibbeha County.
There is "a stretch of road" filled with people who have been very poor and very much in poverty for years and years...and generations and generations. Immediately as one rides slowly along this very "stretch of road," you sense that there is so very much poverty right in front of your very eyes.
I was cruising around and searching with my eyes for something to paint that day when suddenly right before me...was a white/haired...large...very old woman with a pink polka-dotted "homemade," "home-sewn" very "large-sized" dress.
She was wearing old beat up, torn up, dirty old tennis shoes on her feet. There was a little tiny dog walking right beside her down this Sturgis/Maben Road. The little dog was on a rope, and suddenly she turned into her tiny "Home Sweet Home" which was really the size and shape of a huge cardboard box. I thought this is where she lives? Oh, My Gosh! To be honest, I nearly died when I saw her "box home!"
I slowly pulled my car over and into her path of drive way, and quietly without slamming my driver's door got out of my car...slowly walked right behind her...she turned towards me and smiled and her only companion, this little "itsy bitsy" dog, just looked up at me... without barking with a frayed old rope tied around an old collar that was hanging loosely around his tiny neck.
My first words were, "Hello, I am Carole McReynolds Davis from down the road in Starkville...and I am artist out looking for a subject to paint. May I paint your portrait? She looked up at me and into my eyes and said, "Yes," and won't you come into my little house!"
I stepped into a dirt floor and inside of her tiny cardboard "so called" home and I went into shock! I silently thought, "this is a home? Come on now, it is just a box!"
Here she lived all alone here day after day except for her little dog. The little "box home" was as neat as it could be, but I just could not believe that a human being... a lady... could live in such conditions in my beloved Oktibbeha County. She lived and existed in complete poverty! I was in complete SHOCK!
Then I realized that "My Lady In Pink" was very happy, and she had a special joy deep inside her very heart and soul, and what a portrait, what a face, and what a human being I had by accident just found and discovered. Then I thought, finding her was not an accident, but finding her was meant to be.
It was predestination, "whatever will be, will be" this early morning, and could I have cruised down this Sturgis/Maben Road merely looking for a subject to paint....was I lead to her? I think so!
Here she stood right inside her "box home"... "happy as a lark" and she had nothing. I looked around and ask her, what do you have to eat? She reached up high in a sorta "homemade" cabinet which was another type of big old box which she called a cupboard.
She pulled out a small red box of raisins. "Here is what I eat, raisons, would you like some?" "I got a friend going into Starkville to pick me up some raisins from the welfare office up there and bring them out to me since I don't drive, wasn't that nice now for her to do this for me!"
She slowly opened up the old box and I could see that black ants were crawling all around inside that box on top and over all those raisins. I could see them because they were moving around on the shiny raisins having their early morning snack as well. I tried to be gracious and simply said, "thank you very much, but I don't think I'll have any raisins today, maybe another day, but I surely do appreciate your asking me to share a raisin or two with you this morning." I just could not bring myself to open my mouth and eat a raisin and an ant too.
I was in shock, and my heart began to beat faster, and I got almost angry...poverty in my beloved Mississppi is well and thriving...and this is so very sad!
I remember one sentence she said that has stayed with me all of these years. One powerful sentence she said that I shall never ever forget. "I am so happy today cause I woke up alive and well, and I am so happy to just be alive today!" "God let me live today!"
Here stood in front of me a lady who existed in poverty at its best, poverty that I had never quite seen or experienced before my very eyes, and I felt that I was experiencing the what really struggling to live might be.
I had just found and discovered a larger than life sized "My Lady In Pink!"
I had just been given a "blessing from heaven" to find a real LADY who had true happiness in her very heart and soul just because she woke up this one sunny day in a tiny box home with her only companion, a tiny dog and to have for her breakfast, a raisin and an ant or two!
I felt such a sense of sadness for her, towards her, and my own heart suddenly ached for her existence and her state of deep poverty she lived in and merely existed among. It was so very sad to me,and I wondered how can I help her?
My answer... "I can paint her face, her portrait. I am about to paint poverty. I am about to sketch then paint a most moving and powerful painting indeed!"
It was a hot, more like sweltering, Mississippi early morning as the sunshine streamed across her damp, dirt floor. The bright shadows of the early morning sunshine cast dark black shadows along with the bright shadows across her floor and the very inside of her tiny little cardboard box of her "home."
The shadows danced across her white face and suddenly I spotted one drop of sweat dripping from the tip of her nose, as it trickled on down to her pointed chin and onto her sagging neck.
It was good 'ole summer time in Mississippi on the Sturgis/Maben Road and it was hotter than hot that early morning time, and I knew it would get hotter as this day worn on and into early afternoon.
I had left my comfortable cool air-conditioned home in the summer time...with plenty of food in my cupboard to eat, with a fresh unopened red box of raisins without even one ant crawling around inside my box.
I felt so blessed ... maybe "too blessed" and I told myself, "I should be oh so grateful for the many material things I had been given and taken for granted and sorta expected in my life every day that I woke up and got out of bed."
I had just met "My Lady In Pink" who had nothing. She was a human being, she had so little, and she was in what I would call, "pure poverty!" She was my neighbor, down the road from my home, and she was happy! Oh, what a blessing she was to me! I was about to paint poverty and happiness together!
Share with me now one of the most touching and powerful paintings that I shall ever have the honor and the opportunity to paint.
Look into her eyes as she squints from the bright sunshine of Mississippi's sweltering heat of a summer's day. Her white, white skin and her rosy cheeks, her large nose and that one dripping drop of sweat from the very tip of her red nose. Her thin lips have a certain determination of survival as her lips almost turn into a smile. Look at her rosy chin and her sagging pink almost rosy neck. See her pink home-sewn, home-made polka dotted dress.
Glance up at her soft flowing sweaty hot head as her white thinning curly white hair mixed with touches of light brown fall down on her neck and onto her shoulders.
I used a black background to represent the dire poverty she existed lived in..yet she was so very happy! What a contrast, her pure white skin color and her dark black existence of what I call "pure poverty."
I was oh, so inspired to paint her because inside her heart and soul she has... oh such a sweetness, a joy... and she kept on telling me over and over again, "You know...I thank God for what I have cause I woke up alive today, this one day again!"
What was her real name? It was Rosie Manns. I understand the day she did go on to the Church Triumphant, she was out walking down the Sturgis/Maben Road just like I had spotted her, walking back home to her cardboard box "home."
She went back home to her real home, HEAVEN, and I wondered whatever happened to her tiny dog?
"My Lady In Pink"...truly did have the "SERENITY to accept the things she could not change, she had the COURAGE to change the things she could change, and she had the WISDOM to know the difference!" I can still hear her very words right now..."I jest live one day at a time...that's all I gots!"


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Turkey targets credit cards to cut C/A gap
Istanbul, October 9, 2013
Turkey introduced measures on Wednesday to try to control rampant consumer loan growth and lift its domestic savings rate from historic lows, another front in its battle to reduce a gaping current account deficit.
The regulations introduced by the BDDK banking watchdog focus on trying to curb debt-financed consumption by making credit card loans more costly for lenders and tightening spending limits for consumers.
Turkey has seen explosive consumption-led growth over the past decade, with per capita wealth almost tripling in nominal terms, but its low savings rate and huge energy deficit have made it heavily dependent on volatile foreign capital flows.
Addressing the imbalance has become all the more urgent with the US Federal Reserve expected to begin tapering its massive stimulus programme in the coming months, a move which would curb the flow of cheap money Turkey has been relying on to finance its current account deficit.
The new measures include higher risk weightings for credit card loans, making them more costly by forcing lenders to make higher provisions. Consumer financing firms, which offer loans for high-ticket purchases such as cars or houses, will be subject to the same reserve requirements as banks.
Credit card limits for consumers are meanwhile capped at four times monthly income under the new regulations, which take effect immediately, while the minimum monthly payment threshold has been increased and penalties for default tightened.
"The government is concerned by the low savings ratio and the resulting imbalances ... These measures will likely keep the external balances under control," JP Morgan economist Yarkin Cebeci said in a note to clients.
Turkish banking shares, however, fell on news of the measures, which could dent lenders' profits.
Consumer loan growth is running at around 26 per cent, well above the central bank's 15 per cent reference rate, while the savings rate has dwindled to a record low of 12.6 per cent of output, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said on Tuesday.
Credit card and personal loans have increased sharply, according to the BDDK, contributing to a rise in total loans to 1 trillion lira ($500 billion) by September, up 30 per cent in nine months and almost double the level of three years ago.
There was no immediate reaction from Turkey's major banks.
"These regulations are likely to weigh more on capital adequacy ratios of banks which will limit their expansion in these areas (of consumer finance)," said Ayse Colak, executive vice president at Istanbul-based Tera Brokers.
"The usual suspects to suffer most are Garanti, Akbank and Yapi Kredi, based on the weight of these loans in their overall loan portfolios," she said.
Shares in Garanti Bank and Akbank were both down around 1.8 per cent by 0845 GMT, while Yapi Kredi was down 2.4 per cent, all underperforming a 1.2 per cent fall on the main Istanbul share index.
Turkey's current account deficit is expected to stand at 7.1 per cent of gross domestic product by the end of the year, a ratio which the government sees falling to 6.4 per cent next year and 5.9 per cent the year after, according to its latest medium-term programme announced on Tuesday.
But while the trend is in the right direction, Turkey has relatively weak foreign direct investment compared to emerging market peers and is dependent as a result on volatile portfolio flows and short-term debt to finance the deficit.
In an interview with Reuters last month, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said Turkey needed to press ahead with structural reforms to shift away from consumption-led growth, although he noted that such changes would take time.
The BDDK had announced a draft of the new measures in August, weeks after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan urged people not to use credit cards and accused banks of locking ordinary Turks into poverty with excessive fees.
Erdogan and members of his government have frequently accused speculators and a "high-interest-rate lobby" of stoking volatility in financial markets to make a quick profit at the expense of the Turkish economy. - Reuters


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Stephen's late basket lifts Wisconsin over No. 7 Penn State
Madison, WI – Tiera Stephen's layup in the closing seconds of the second half lifted Wisconsin over No. 7 Penn State, 63-61, at the Kohl Center.
Stephen finished with five points and 11 rebounds, while Morgan Paige netted a game-high 33 points and Jacki Gulczynski added 16 for the Badgers (10-11, 2-6 Big Ten), who have won two of their last three.
Maggie Lucas had 18 points to pace Penn State (17-3, 7-1), which had its school-record, 14-game Big Ten win streak snapped.
Mia Nickson and Dara Taylor netted 11 and 10 points, respectively, in defeat.
Wisconsin raced out to the early lead as Gulczynski sank three shots from beyond the arc and Paige added two more 3-pointers during a game-opening 17-6 run.
Penn State answered with a 6-0 push to get back within 17-12 before Wisconsin scored nine of the next 12 points to reopen a double-digit lead, 26-15, with 6 1/2 minutes left in the first half.
The rest of the half belonged to the Lady Lions, however, as they closed out the frame with an 18-3 run to carry a 33-29 edge into the break.
Wisconsin opened the second half with a 7-2 spurt to regain a one-point lead, but Nickson followed back-to-back 3-pointers by Lucas and Ariel Edwards with a layup to give Penn State back a 43-36 advantage.
The Lady Lions later held a 57-55 edge with about four minutes to play before Gulczynski followed a Stephen free throw with a jumper to go on top, 58-57.
Alex Bentley then connected on a pair of jumpers around a Paige trey to tie the game at 61-61 with 27 seconds left, but on Wisconsin's ensuing possession, Stephen grabbed the rebound of a missed Cassie Rochel jumper and laid in the game-winning basket with six seconds remaining.
Bentley missed a layup as the buzzer sounded at the other end to end the game.


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Work to bring superfast broadband to businesses and residents in Derbyshire is continuing.
More than eight miles of cable will be laid to provide faster internet speeds to more than 1,600 firms and homes in areas including Hathersage, Grindleford and Hope Valley.
It is the latest development as part of the £27million Digital Derbyshire project to provide more than 95 per cent of the county's businesses and residents with access to superfast broadband by the end of 2016.
Councillor Joan Dixon, Derbyshire County Council's cabinet member for jobs, economy and transport, said: " This is fantastic news for people living and working in Hathersage, Grindleford and Hope Valley.This investment will open up endless business and leisure opportunities and will help to boost our rural areas, support economic growth and allow local communities to continue to thrive." For more information about the Digital Derbyshire project, visit www.derbyshire.gov.uk/digitalderbyshire


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I want to buy a vintage loose complete set of figures from a dude for series I, II and III for a total of 28 figures all in good condition (little to no wear and all can stand by themselves). Is $755 too much for the complete set shipped? Breaks down to about $28 a piece ... Is this a fair price or too much or too little?
Remember its one complete purchase instead of hunting them down 1 at a time and then having to find those missing accessories. Bottom line is ... Is this a deal or a rip? I value all of your opinions so lay them on as heavy as you want. Thanks in advance for all of your feedback


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Oct. 16, 2004
By Mount Holyoke Sports Information
South Hadley, Mass. - MIT pulled out the win in this tight NEWMAC match-up on a goal by Deanna Lentz, her 11th of the season. After a scoreless first half, Mount Holyoke came out strong, out-shooting the Engineers 14-4 and earning 11 corners to MIT's two for the half. With six minutes remaining in the game, Lentz capitalized on one of MIT's four chances when she dribbled the ball through several defenders and slipped it past Mount Holyoke's keeper for the score.
Tech's Alexa Herman posted 11 saves for the shutout. Amanda Smith notched her seventh defensive save of the season, helping her establish a new Institute mark of 22 career defensive saves. In goal, Jenny Wing stopped eight shots for Mount Holyoke. With the win, MIT improves to 8-5 (3-2 NEWMAC), while Mount Holyoke slips to 6-7, 2-4 in conference play.
MIT hosts its final home game of the regular season on Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 6:00 p.m. when it faces Worcester Polytechnic Institute.


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My 3.0.0 GGTS was recently upgraded to 3.1.0RELEASE. The update seemed to be ok and has been running without incident for a few days. This morning I was prompted to install 2 software updates - I recall that one had something to do with CollabNet and the other with JavaHL. After installing the updates and restarting GGTS, running any grails command causes GGTS to crash and close without any kind of error message. Any idea what the trouble is or how to fix it?
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The progress bar consistently reaches 35% and displays the message "Setting classpath containers" before the window closes. Sometimes an error message pops up saying "Java was started but returned exit code=1", with a bunch of system properties.
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here is the ggts error message:
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I found my installation history at Help > About > Installation Details. Looks like the Collabnet Merge Client was updated from 3.0.11 to 3.0.12 and the Subversion JavaHL Native Library Adapter from 1.7.6 to 1.7.7.
So I uninstalled Collabnet Merge Client - didn't help. Then I discovered I could revert the entire installation. However, the revert procedure fails with this error:
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context wasprofile=DefaultProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phase s.Collect, operand=, action=).
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,com.collabnet.subversion.merge,3.0.11
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,com.collabnet.subversio n.merge.feature,3.0.11
No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,org.tigris.subversion.c lientadapter.javahl.feature,1.7.6
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.tigris.subversion.clientadapter.ja vahl.win64,1.7.6
What's the best way forward here? Is there a way to rescue this installation? Should I re-install GGTS 3.1.0 from scratch? Am I on the right track with blaming these plugin updates for my troubles?
restarting with -clean option in GGTS.ini does not help.
Looks like I've jumped out of the frying pan, into the fire...
I removed my GGTS installation, then installed a new 64-bit version of GGTS 3.1.0 RELEASE from the download site. I then installed m2e and subclipse plugins. I also added a Grails 2.1.0 path to my preferences (as the project I am working on is still under 2.1.0).
Now when I try to start GGTS, the Build workspace task reaches 99%, where it hangs for a minute or so, then the IDE crashes and the window closes. Your suggestions on fixing this will be most gratefully appreciated. :-)
Uninstalled GGTS 3.1.0 and re-installed GGTS 3.0.0 and everything seems to be OK again. I'm grateful to be alive...
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Do you still have the error logs available? Help -> Show view -> Other -> Error log?
I'd like to know what they say. Perhaps this would help us find out what's going on.
Thanks for your reply, Andrew. I thought a clean uninstall was the best way forward, so I deleted everything. Nice to know where to look for the error logs in future. I also learned how to revert my installation to a previous snapshot - hopefully next time I'll get it right. Now I just have to figure out how to stifle those "updates available" popups as they seem to contain a mixed bag of tricks.