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Jay Cutler and Devin Hester: Can this marriage be saved?
That's pretty much the soap opera we've been reading about the last week while that Super Bowl thing was taking place.
Some terrific reporting and interviewing by Trib colleague Vaughn McClure began with former receivers coach Darryl Drake painting Hester as emotionally homeless if he isn't part of the game plan or having smoke blown up his backside. Drake said Cutler and Hester weren't BFFs because Cutler is tough-minded and Hester -- well, duh -- is not.
Then Hester, who broke down and said he might quit when he found out Lovie Smith was fired, told McClure he probably needs a trade. Hester, who has begun failing at kick returns the way he failed as a receiver, also said he probably doesn't want to play offense anymore, if he's even here, that is.
And now, Hester is saying he would have to sit down and talk with Cutler if he remains a part of the Bears' offense.
If Oprah wants to take another shot at saving her dying channel, she might think about starting a regular sports diva segment.
Bonus programming: No lying, doping sports scumball who claims he'll answer every question but then doesn't, just like you'd expect from a lying, doping scumball.
Hester sounds like a baby in this deal. He admits he wasn't into the job last season, so he sounds like the worst kind of teammate -- the kind you can't trust. And then there's the way Hester regularly looks overwhelmed by a few pages in a playbook.
Cutler has no tolerance for such stupidity or unpreparedness, take your pick. Any quarterback would blow up over that.
The biggest joke is the idea they could develop chemistry. Cutler tried to do it in his first exhibition game, but found out immediately that he should forget it. Cutler commented afterward that Hester wasn't a "go-up-and-get-it guy"' and noted that Hester wasn't a "back-shoulder guy.'"
That was code for: Hester can go deep, period.
Cutler and every offensive coordinator have tried to get Hester into open space with the bubble screen, and how did that work out for you?
Four seasons later, Hester still can't run a professional route, when he knows which route to run, that is.
Quick, someone close to Hester explain that he's the least important part of this equation right now. In fact, he might be one of the least important parts of the Bears' roster today, give or take Kellen Davis.
Hester doesn't produce anymore. He's not one-third of the Bears' scoring the way he seemed to be on special teams. Hester failed to return a kickoff or a punt for a score this season. He trailed defensive lineman Corey Wootton in special-teams touchdowns. I mean, Hester got caught inside the 10-yard line on one punt return.
Hester is not the pretty, shiny thing that always got a hug and another chance no matter how badly he was going and no matter how far his value had dropped. No wonder Hester cried when Smith was fired. Hester seems to think he's well-regarded around a league that ought to know how wrong that is.
But here's the deal: If the Bears can find a sucker to overpay for Hester -- and a fourth-round pick might be considered a steal -- then trade him. Make Hester's wish come true. Let another team enjoy the thrill of a punt returner who needs a Garmin to figure out which direction is forward.
If Hester remains a Bear, he can take a number when it comes to sit-downs with the quarterback, starting with new coach Marc Trestman and then new offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer.
Then there's new quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh. After that, Matt Forte, who ought to become a monster in a West Coast-style offense.
Then there's Alshon Jeffery, if he can get out of the trainer's room, followed by perhaps J'Marcus Webb, and then the hologram where the tight end is supposed to be.
Sorry, Devin. All booked up. Can you call back in, I don't know, June?
So, can this marriage be saved?
Or maybe the better question is: Why bother?


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<—Sydney Comes to London – 1939 Olga, Nursing & Declaration of War —>
(Olga's Diary Continued)
Dear Diary
St Giles Hospital: I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Not too long ago I was spending my mornings sitting on a park bench in Regent's Park feeling sorry for myself and now I'm standing in a line with other student nurses listening to Sister.
"These are the rules for student nurses and I expect you to commit them to memory" barked Sister as she handed each new student nurse a rule sheet.
A stout, straight talking woman from Yorkshire with grey hair and voice that only seemed to have one volume, loud.
"It is my pleasure to guide you through your nursing training until you become fully qualified nurses" Sister Tutor was referring to us by our surnames and when someone asked why, she said that's how it is in hospital.
"We don't use Christian names, only surnames".
Honestly, I don't like the idea of someone calling me Browney.
- walk at all times, only run in case of fire
- stand when a senior member of staff enters
- always open the door for the doctor
- never overtake a senior member of staff on the stairs
- no make up on duty
- hair not to reach your collar
- nails must be short
- black stockings only when on duty and no ladders in them
- low heel shoes
- on duty by 7.00 am
- in bed by 10.30 pm
I felt uncomfortable and awkward in my student nurse's uniform, my black frizzy hair poking out at different angles under a heavily starched white cap which needs four hair grips to hold it in place. My grey dress had a little white collar which fastened tightly round my neck and was nearly choking me and over the dress I wore a starched white apron with a wide belt around my waist. I didn't like the feel of the thick black stockings on my skin and the thick black rubber soled shoes felt like lead weights on the end of my feet.
There are nine other student nurses in my group but Alison Moores, Ethel Richards and me are friends already. I don't really know why because we are so different.
For a start Moores is aristocracy from top to bottom; she talks beautifully and I think she sounds very posh, she's tall, with dark hair, which used to be long before Matron told her she would have to cut it before she started her training. Moores has a perfect peaches and cream complexion, is very confident, elegant, and looks more like a film star than a student nurse. Her parents are rich and they make some kind of cold cream for women and sold in jars by the thousands. They sent her into nursing because they said she comes from a privileged background and should give something back to society. Ethel asked her why she wasn't doing her training at one of the big teaching hospitals and Moores said she had thought about it but preferred to be amongst real people in a smaller hospital.
Ethel is from the East End of London, only 5 ft tall with, lovely twinkling green eyes that always seem to be smiling, a round face framed with red curly hair and a cockney accent which I don't understand sometimes and when she smiles she shows off a set of perfectly even white teeth. Sometimes she reminds me of Vivie because she's not frightened of any form of authority, neither Sister Tutor nor Matron. Ethel says it's because she grew up with five brothers and because she's the only girl in the family she always had to fight for what she wanted.
And then there's me. One day I asked Moores how she had described me to her parents and she smiled as she said:
"Slim, not very tall, brown skin, not particularly pretty, short frizzy black hair which she wears with either a blue or yellow ribbon, slightly bushy eyebrows above huge brown eyes that seem to be in a permanent state of astonishment at everything she sees or hears, a beautiful smile and a soft voice that fits like a glove with her gentle manner".
Isn't that a lovely description?
It's funny Moores comes from a very rich family and she's not stuck up or anything. I'm the only coloured person in the whole of the hospital, as far as I know, and people do stare at me sometimes. Moores tells me not to worry about it.
"They stare at you because you're a novelty Olga, that's all".
Ethel says she doesn't care what anyone thinks of her and neither should I, but sometimes I feel a bit uncomfortable.
Letter to Mammie, Kingston, Jamaica
from Olga, Student Nurses Home, St Giles Hospital, Camberwell, London
Dearest Mammie
The weeks fly by, such a lot to do and learn. We are on duty from 7.00 in the morning until 7 in the evening with only a coffee and lunch break. Please don't worry about me because I am happy, tired but happy, and I have made friends with two other student nurses.
So far I have learnt about hygiene, how to take a temperature, how to stack linen, how to put a bandage on a patient and how a treatment tray should be laid up. Once a week we spend a morning on the ward and one of my jobs is to feed the patients.
Oh Mammie, I love it so much, the patients are so grateful when you do something for them. Sister Tutor praised my bed making the other day, you see Mammie it's important to make beds properly with the sheet corners turned in and the open ends of the pillow slips mustn't face the door into the ward – the sewn end must face the door.
The top sheets are folded over the counterpanes and have to be the same width and the fold has to be sixteen inches. I find the best way to check is to measure from my fingertips to my elbow.
Matron is fierce and Sister Tutor stern and doesn't smile at all. I find it difficult to remember things so now I carry a note book around with me and write down as much as I can, especially the things I don't understand. When I meet Joanne she explains the things to me that I've been too frightened to ask Sister Tutor to repeat in case she thinks I'm stupid.
Lectures are nearly always when we're off duty and in one of our first lessons I met Henry who scared the life out of me. Henry's a skeleton that hangs from the ceiling in the lecture room and we have to memorise the names of each bone in his body. Sometimes when I look at all those bones I think of Aggie Burns. If she could see Henry, I bet she'd love to get her hands on his bones for her Obeah man.
I got into trouble the other day as I was preparing the patients' tea and I was holding the loaf of bread against my chest while I was trying to slice it with a knife and Sister Tutor was furious with me.
"Don't you have any common sense and realize how dangerous it is to try and cut bread like that".
And then she showed me how to cut it on the table. I told her I'd never cut bread before because either Aggie Burns or Cassie did it. Sister Tutor said nothing but gave me a very funny look. I'm not lonely any more Mammie because I have three good friends now and that's all I need.
Your loving daughter, Olga
<—Sydney Comes to London – 1939 Olga, Nursing & Declaration of War —>
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Robust Methods in Biostatistics
Robust Methods in Biostatistics
ISBN: 978-0-470-74054-5 May 2009 292 Pages
DescriptionRobust statistics is an extension of classical statistics that specifically takes into account the concept that the underlying models used to describe data are only approximate. Its basic philosophy is to produce statistical procedures which are stable when the data do not exactly match the postulated models as it is the case for example with outliers.
Robust Methods in Biostatistics proposes robust alternatives to common methods used in statistics in general and in biostatistics in particular and illustrates their use on many biomedical datasets. The methods introduced include robust estimation, testing, model selection, model check and diagnostics. They are developed for the following general classes of models:
- Linear regression
- Generalized linear models
- Linear mixed models
- Marginal longitudinal data models
- Cox survival analysis model
The methods are introduced both at a theoretical and applied level within the framework of each general class of models, with a particular emphasis put on practical data analysis. This book is of particular use for research students,applied statisticians and practitioners in the health field interested in more stable statistical techniques. An accompanying website provides R code for computing all of the methods described, as well as for analyzing all the datasets used in the book.
1 Introduction.
1.1 What is Robust Statistics?
1.2 Against What is Robust Statistics Robust?
1.3 Are Diagnostic Methods an Alternative to Robust Statistics?
1.4 How do Robust Statistics Compare with Other Statistical Procedures in Practice?
2 Key Measures and Results.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Statistical Tools for Measuring Robustness Properties.
2.3 General Approaches for Robust Estimation.
2.4 Statistical Tools for Measuring Tests Robustness.
2.5 General Approaches for Robust Testing.
3 Linear Regression.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Estimating the Regression Parameters.
3.3 Testing the Regression Parameters.
3.4 Checking and Selecting the Model.
3.5 CardiovascularRiskFactorsDataExample.
4 Mixed Linear Models.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 The MLM.
4.3 Classical Estimation and Inference.
4.4 Robust Estimation.
4.5 Robust Inference.
4.6 Checking the Model.
4.7 Further Examples.
4.8 Discussion and Extensions.
5 Generalized Linear Models.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 The GLM.
5.3 A Class of M-estimators forGLMs.
5.4 Robust Inference.
5.5 Breastfeeding Data Example.
5.6 Doctor Visits Data Example.
5.7 Discussion and Extensions.
6 Marginal Longitudinal Data Analysis.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 The Marginal Longitudinal Data Model (MLDA) and Alternatives.
6.3 A Robust GEE-type Estimator.
6.4 Robust Inference.
6.5 LEI Data Example.
6.6 Stillbirth in Piglets Data Example.
6.7 Discussion and Extensions.
7 Survival Analysis.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 TheCox Model.
7.3 Robust Estimation and Inference in the Cox Model.
7.4 The Veteran's Administration Lung Cancer Data.
7.5 Structural Misspecifications.
7.6 Censored Regression Quantiles.
A Starting Estimators for MM-estimators of Regression Parameters.
B Efficiency, LRTρ , RAIC and RCp with Biweight ρ-function for the Regression Model.
C An Algorithm Procedure for the Constrained S-estimator.
D Some Distributions of the Exponential Family.
E Computations for the Robust GLM Estimator.
E.1 Fisher Consistency Corrections.
E.2 Asymptotic Variance.
E.3 IRWLS Algorithm for Robust GLM.
F Computations for the Robust GEE Estimator.
F.1 IRWLS Algorithm for Robust GEE.
F.2 Fisher Consistency Corrections.
G Computation of the CRQ.
"All treated methods are illustrated with several data examples. These data examples show clearly the superiority of the robust methods compared with the classical methods... However, since there exists a website with instructions for running the data examples of this book, the new robust methods can be easily applied." (Biometrical Journal, February 2011)"The book by Heritier et al. is the most comprehensive and practical discussion of robust methods to date. The combination of a summary of robust methods, extensive discussion of applications, and accompanying R code give this book the potential to increase the use of robust methods in practice." (Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, March 2010)
- First book on robust techniques to be specifically aimed at biostatistics.
- Introduction to each chapter and its relevant classical statistical procedures.
- Compares robust statistics with the classical approach.
- A chapter devoted to the computational aspects.
- Supported by an accompanying website containing data sets, programs written in R and a user guide.
- Experience of the authors e.g. (short) course, teaching, consulting, work with clinicians and epidemiologists (psychologists or biologists


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Is "Dawson's 20-Load Weekend" the Most Important Gay Porn Film Ever Made?
July 9, 2012
The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco is noted for its unbridled embrace of every star in our sexual constellation. Even the fearless leather community that founded the event can sometimes appear tame amidst the outlandish kinks and clothing -- and lack thereof -- on display along the city's tilted streets.
In the middle of this rowdy bacchanalia in the fall of 2003, Paul Morris stood at the booth for Treasure Island Media (TIM), the gay porn outfit he founded that features unprotected sex (barebacking) between its actors. This particular specialty was the singular driving force behind his smashingly successful and relatively new company.
Then, like the legend of Lana Turner fortuitously cozying up to the counter at Schwab's, a beautiful and achingly masculine young man approached the TIM booth. He liked the TIM videos, he liked them very much indeed, and he hoped to one day document a few fantasies of his own. TIM star Jesse O'Toole was on hand and someone snapped a photograph of the two of them together (right). In it, the grinning young man with a leather cap appears to have found his long lost tribe, and O'Toole looks as if he has found a seven-course meal.
The photo was sent to Max Sohl, a sometime porn actor with a theater background whom Morris had commissioned to conceive and direct what would be Sohl's first porn film. Sohl met with the aspiring model and asked him to complete a form that included a simple question: What is one of your fantasy scenes? In response, the young man wrote simply, "me getting nailed and seeded by a gang of hot guys."
"The Black Party was coming," Sohl explained in a recent interview, referring to the annual New York City weekend of leather men, parties and sexual adventures, "and I thought, 'Okay. Let's see how many men he can take.'"
And that is how Dawson's 20 Load Weekend was born.
Prior to the onset of AIDS, condom usage in gay pornography was nonexistent -- but that was before bodily fluids became synonymous with death and disease. For well over a decade after the crisis began, gay porn videos featured not only tightly wrapped penises, but their storylines -- indeed, the actors themselves -- suffered from a sort of dramatic malaise, as if sleepwalking through their sexual routine while trying to pay no attention to the man with KS lesions behind the curtain. The videos mirrored our own lack of interest in gallivanting about with the pizza man or diving into an orgy with strangers, with or without condoms. Many viewers simply returned to their stash of pre-AIDS pornography, which was condom-less but "justified."
As AIDS deaths subsided with the advent of new medications in 1996, gay male culture responded with a vengeance. Circuit parties were born of celebration (before succumbing to their own excesses), safer sex behaviors relaxed, and there was a palpable longing to escape the horrors of the previous years. Reclaiming a bold sexuality -- something many gay men believed had been lost forever -- was a tonic for the post-traumatic stress they suffered. Younger gay men, who had listened to stories of an earlier, sexually liberated time as if it were a lost era of paleontology, were more than willing to explore whatever modern version might await them.
Unprotected sex since the arrival of HIV is nothing new -- it is, after all, the primary reason for new infections that have continued fairly steadily since AIDS began -- but in the late 1990's the gay community proved again how comically adept it is at applying a little branding to any phenomenon, and "barebacking" entered the public lexicon. The irony may be that a new word was developed for the oldest sexual activity imaginable: having sex without a barrier. It wasn't the sex that had changed, but the meaning and judgment associated with it towards, most specifically, gay men. Or, as AIDS advocate Jim Pickett said at a recent conference for people living with HIV, "When a friend announces they are expecting a child, I feel like screaming 'You barebacked!'"
But while intelligent minds and passionate advocates argued about the reasons and the proper response to barebacking, no one had dared document it on videotape for the erotic pleasure of others. Yet.
In 1998, two renegade companies formed to make bareback videos exclusively: Hot Desert Knights and Treasure Island Media (links definitely NSFW). None of the leading gay pornographers would consider producing them (although they were eager to market their highly-profitable backlists of videos produced "pre-AIDS" that featured bareback sex). The cheaply made videos by the upstart porn producers brought the sexual choices of an increasing number of men out of the closet and onto DVD players and computer screens.
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To the editor: Our country should be disappointed that John Kerry, our secretary of state, is so anxious to do something famous that he is willing to accept a treaty with Iran that he knows he can get rather than negotiating hard for a treaty that the world needs. The world�s sanctions have finally forced Iran to the negotiating table, and Kerry is letting them go without their firm commitment to dismantle their nuclear weapons program.
To the editor: Our country should be disappointed that John Kerry, our secretary of state, is so anxious to do something famous that he is willing to accept a treaty with Iran that he knows he can get rather than negotiating hard for a treaty that the world needs. The world�s sanctions have finally forced Iran to the negotiating table, and Kerry is letting them go without their firm commitment to dismantle their nuclear weapons program.
I believe Kerry is another Neville Chamberlain, declaring �Peace in our time!� only to be sadly disproved in the not too distant future.
Larry Mobley
To the editor: The Nov. 8 Times-News reported that the new Ready Accountability Assessment showed that fewer than half of students in third grade and above scored at grade level proficiency, statewide.
I recently read �It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.� (Frederick Douglass) I guess I can understand how our state legislators are impervious to the plight of children not being educated so they become proficient in skills needed for them to succeed in the society in which they are being raised. But I can�t understand how the business-friendly legislators and governor can ignore the economics of cutting funding to public schools.
Studies consistently show that under-educated persons make up a disproportionate number of the ranks of the unemployed and incarcerated in our wealthy society.
A recent study by the Minnesota Federal Reserve Bank showed that for every dollar invested in early childhood education, eight dollars were saved in unemployment and incarceration costs later on.
Are our legislators just being �penny wise� and �pound foolish� or is there a hidden agenda, such as the privatization of our schools for the benefit of children of the privileged?
Roy Harris
To the editor: Letters on the state of our politics require this response:
(A) As a history teacher, it is depressing to note the public ignorance on our electoral history. Grab a book! In many ways the current �conflicts� are laughable in terms of language, civility, violence, etc. This is part of that annoying feature of baby boomers � the belief that nothing of significance happened before we were born!
(B) Control � our lack of knowledge is depressing. A look at the period from FDR to today yields the following facts, which cannot be disputed: Democrats controlled the presidency 57 percent of the time; Democrats controlled the Senate 63 percent of the time; Democrats controlled the House of Representatives 81 percent of the time. Notice what�s missing in this data? Republicans.
Now, not being a Republican, I don�t much care to promote them. Their political failures are self-inflicted.
However, I have a different take on our conflicts: The problem is not the tea party or so-called �radical� conservatives. No, the problem is Democrats. They are fine when they are in charge, but do not play well with others when they have to �share� or �compromise.� Note the recent move in the Senate!
Jim Griffin
To the editor: Today the United States Senate under the control of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and his fellow Democrats amended an important and long-standing rule of this branch of Congress by a vote of 52 to 48.
The requirement for ending a filibuster will now be a simple majority (51 votes) rather than the three-fifths (60 votes), which had been the rule. This change only applies to certain executive and judicial nominees. The change does not apply to Supreme Court nominees.
The previous filibuster rule had been viewed as one of the few options the minority party in the Senate possessed as a sort of balance in order to keep the majority party from running away with all executive nominees.
It will be interesting to see how Mr. Reid views this action in his rearview mirror 14 months from now if/when he becomes the minority leader of the Senate. He well might have the opportunity to enjoy a sip of water from the well he and his fellow party members poisoned. One can only hope.
John Knapp


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Gluten-free diet can relieve gas, bloating
DEAR DOCTOR K: I'm a healthy young person, but I tend to have a lot of gas, bloating and diarrhea. Could a gluten-free diet help me?
DEAR READER: Gluten-free eating is essential for people with celiac disease, which is an intolerance to the protein gluten. This protein is found in grains such as wheat, barley and rye.
Gluten gives structure and texture to breads, pastas, cereals and baked goods. It is also used as a flavoring, thickener and stabilizer in foods such as ice cream, sauces and condiments. So gluten is in a lot of foods.
About 300,000 Americans are diagnosed with celiac disease. In people with this disease, gluten provokes the immune system to attack the lining of the small intestine. It causes gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, headache, trouble concentrating and fatigue. It also leads to weight loss and malnutrition.
For people with celiac disease, following a strict gluten-free diet is essential. In its most severe form, celiac disease can cause life-threatening diarrhea and dehydration.
Given your symptoms, you should talk to your doctor about getting tested for celiac disease. If you have it, you definitely should be on a gluten-free diet.
Even five years ago, I would have said there's no point in your following a gluten-free diet if you don't test positive for celiac disease. Two million Americans follow a gluten-free diet — and that's a lot more than have celiac disease. Many really believe it helps them, and recent studies have found that they may be right.
There now is good evidence for a condition called non-celiac gluten sensitivity. It causes gas, bloating and indigestion, but no intestinal damage. The evidence for non-celiac gluten sensitivity comes from studies of people who believe they have gluten sensitivity. The people have been chosen at random to eat foods containing gluten or not containing gluten — with neither the doctors nor the subjects in the study knowing what they were eating. Those who thought they had symptoms from gluten really did.
If you don't have celiac disease but you have symptoms after consuming gluten, try a gluten-free diet for a brief time to see if you feel better. Many foods now are labeled as being gluten-free.
By cutting out gluten-containing foods, you may reduce your fiber intake from whole grains. You may also miss out on vitamins and minerals that you'd normally get from fortified foods. So you might consider contacting a registered dietitian. He or she can help you put together a food plan that has adequate fiber and nutrients. A gluten-free diet based on fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, nuts, seeds, legumes and whole grains that do not contain gluten, such as brown rice and quinoa, can be quite healthy.
For many years, I saw patients who said that they were sensitive to gluten-containing foods. When their tests showed no celiac disease, I told them there was no reason for them to avoid such foods. Guess what? They often didn't follow my advice — and they were right.
Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.


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After eight probes and a slew of fresh corruption findings, a defiant Eddie Obeid has dared authorities to lay charges against him.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has again branded the former NSW Labor powerbroker corrupt and recommended criminal charges against him following three investigations into Obeid activities spanning nearly 15 years.
This is not the first time Mr Obeid has been in this position.
Thursday's findings followed former ICAC commissioner David Ipp's damning assessment of Mr Obeid last July over the controversial Bylong Valley coal venture in Operation Jasper.
Mr Obeid says he would "love" the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to bring a case against him so he can defend himself in court.
Not that he sees it happening.
"If I wasn't in Australia, I would think the behaviour of ICAC suits a place like Zimbabwe," Mr Obeid told reporters outside his family's Hunters Hill mansion.
"There is nothing in all these inquiries that we feel we have done anything wrong nor will it stand up in a court of law."
Former Labor stablemate Joe Tripodi was also found to have engaged in corrupt conduct, prompting the Labor Party to expel him following his suspension in 2013.
But Mr Tripodi has not been recommended for prosecution over Operation Cyrus.
Cyrus looked into whether Mr Obeid revealed his family's stake in Circular Quay cafe leases when he lobbied former MPs Michael Costa, Eric Roozendaal and Mr Tripodi to extend the leases without putting them to tender, and whether Mr Tripodi concealed the Obeid stake from cabinet.
Mr Tripodi doubled back to the ICAC witness box during Cyrus to clarify that while he knew Mr Obeid had an interest in the leases, he thought it was academic - not financial.
The ICAC dismissed that as a clumsy attempt by Mr Tripodi to "dig (himself) out of a hole", but said there was probably not enough evidence against Mr Tripodi for a prosecution.
The commission came to the same conclusion in relation to former NSW Maritime chief Steve Dunn, despite finding that within weeks of his appointment in 2007, he made good on the policy shift Mr Obeid had long been pursuing: direct negotiations for Circular Quay leaseholders.
"Within a little over a fortnight, Mr Dunn had achieved what others, especially Edward Obeid Sr, could not achieve over a period of years," the report says.
Mr Dunn re-emerged during Operation Cabot, which revealed he had used his clout as a senior public servant to help Mr Obeid find information about lucrative water rights attached to land his family was buying at Cherrydale Park in the Bylong Valley.
The ICAC also reported back on Operation Meeka, which probed claims Mr Obeid hand-delivered to then treasurer Mr Costa a letter requesting a meeting with a director of Direct Health Solutions (DHS), without revealing his family and long-time associate Rocco Triulcio had sunk a combined $450,000 into the company.
Mr Obeid's claim that he never knew his family had money in DHS was rejected.
In all, Thursday's reports included half a dozen corruption findings against Mr Obeid.
These follow Operation Indus, which looked into a cut-price car given to the Roozendaals and which snared Mr Obeid's son Moses, as well as a decade-old investigation into the Bulldogs rugby league club's Oasis development project, which examined allegations Mr Obeid solicited a bribe but ultimately cleared him of any wrongdoing.
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This Apartment Therapy tour has an extensive resource list for the kitchen, which we've included here:
• The red cutting board and apple tray are by Barbro Tryberg Boberg at Formverket in Stockholm.
• The colorful tray by the mixer is the "coffee-in-bed" tray by Maria Holmer Dahlgren, who also designed the Stockholm dishcloth sponge.
• The iron trivets on the table are from HAPPYsthlm.
• The ceramic bird pots are by Camilla Engdahl.
• The "Think Spring" block print is by Eric Rewitzer and the colorful "Mushrooming" painting and collage on wood is by Annie Galvin, both of 3 Fish Studios in San Francisco.
• The sheep photograph from Elizabeth Soule at the SF Renegade Fair.
• The alphabet ceramic plate on the wall is by May Luk of Take Me Homeware.
• The London architecture plates are from People Will Always Need Plates from an early series.
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Ringolsby: Rockies completely incapable of mistakes!
I'm so glad I read this column - SO GLAD! I was feeling kind of down about the Rockies. I had been embarrassed about the motivation regarding the Jason Jennings trade. I felt even more embarrassment when Chuckie Monfort basically admitted the other day that we were going to be Expos West when he said, "...you keep them while you can go through arbitration and hope that you have somebody coming behind them to take their place because, quite frankly, in this market we can't afford that. If people want to say that we are a minor-league team for the Yankees and somebody is going to pick Matt off for $14 (million) a year (as a free agent), so be it." I was feeling down in the dumps as a fan when I was thinking about how many winning seasons (one - barely) the Rockies have had this decade.
Well, it turns out that things are, in fact, pretty rosy! I just needed a dose of Tracy Ringolsby. I failed to realize that Rockies ownership were puppet masters for the rest of baseball; that there should be no concern with being in Year 14 of the Five-Year-Plan.
It's good to know that regardless of how many games we lose this year, the future will be bright!
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I was actually just coming here to put up the article in which Monfort admits that the Rockies are going to be a farm team for the rest of the league. I'll do so anyway.
As Rockies fans braced for Todd Helton's potential exit this week, there was a bit of good news. ESPN.com ranked Colorado's farm system the second best in baseball. The reality, according to owner Charlie Monfort, is that the Rockies have no choice but to continue to develop young talent because they are not going to be able to keep it.
Failing to move a large chunk of Helton's contract to Boston - as unpopular as it may have been - leaves the Rockies in a difficult position as they try to retain young talent such as pitcher Aaron Cook, closer Brian Fuentes and, most notably, all-star outfielder Matt Holliday beyond this year.
Unless, that is, ownership greatly expands payroll, which it has shown no desire to do.
"It makes it tough. But who knows what's going to happen?" Monfort said. "People are already saying that we are not staying with homegrown guys (because of the Jason Jennings trade). But when we say we are going to stick with them, that doesn't mean through thick and thin for 12 to 14 years.
"That means you keep them while you can go through arbitration and hope that you have somebody coming behind them to take their place because, quite frankly, in this market we can't afford that. If people want to say that we are a minor-league team for the Yankees and somebody is going to pick Matt off for $14 (million) a year (as a free agent), so be it."
Holliday, 27, isn't eligible for free agency until after the 2009 season. Until then, the team can go year-to-year in salary arbitration, as they did this season, but his salary could be expected to take huge swings upward, as it did this winter. Holliday will make $4.4 million this year, and with Helton ($16.6 million), pitcher Rodrigo Lopez ($4.325 million), Fuentes ($3.5 million) and Cook ($3.05 million) will constitute $31.8 million of the projected $55 million payroll, or 58 percent.
Allocating a high percentage of payroll to 20 percent of the roster is not conducive to producing a championship team. The Rockies were motivated to explore trading Helton to create more financial flexibility and address multiple needs. Helton, who has a no-trade clause in his contract, has squashed trade talks after they died this week.
With the Rockies' payroll in the bottom third of baseball, it's going to get more difficult to keep young players as they hit arbitration and free agency.
Fuentes, Holliday, third baseman Garrett Atkins, outfielder Brad Hawpe and possibly Cook - the team can exercise a buyout if he doesn't reach 187 1/3 innings - will be eligible for arbitration after this season, and pitcher Jeff Francis will earn $3 million next year as part of a new four-year contract.
As a result, the Rockies could be forced to make hard decisions, similar to the one faced when they traded Jennings, their No. 1 starter, this offseason to Houston for three young players, after failing to agree on a long-term contract.
"They have made a pretty strong statement with their payroll," Holliday said. "If the payroll remains status quo, it's clear that logistically some of us aren't going to be around."
The Rockies were burned by their monster contracts to Mike Hampton, Denny Neagle and Larry Walker years ago. Starting in 2004, the Rockies tried to reinvent themselves, adopting a small-payroll model perfected by the Oakland A's and Minnesota Twins, teams that frown on long-term deals. Those teams have advanced to the playoffs seven times in the past five years with average payrolls since 2000 that ranked 23rd (Minnesota) and 24th (Oakland), respectively.
Most teams with consistently similar payrolls and financial resources have failed. Tampa Bay has never been to the playoffs. Colorado last appeared in 1995, while Pittsburgh (1992), Kansas City (1985) and Milwaukee (1982) have suffered droughts. All have tried to rebuild through youth.
"If you don't have a lot of money, you might be able to put it together with some real good young players and mix in free agents here or there," said Tony La Russa, manager of the world champion St. Louis Cardinals. "But it's pretty hard to sustain it because as soon as those young guys start making money you can't afford to keep them."
That's the growing concern among Rockies fans regarding Holliday, who hit .326 with 34 home runs and 114 RBIs last season. If the Rockies want to talk about a multiyear contract, Holliday said he'll listen, but the Rockies don't have to do anything. There have been no discussions about a multiyear contract since Holliday hired agent Scott Boras 14 months ago. Holliday takes umbrage with those who say his exit is inevitable because of Boras.
"It's ridiculous. They look at Scott and say he's bad for baseball. But he's great at what he does and he works for me," Holliday said. "It will ultimately be my decision."
Holliday's situation will be watched closely because there's never been a Rockies player like him - an all-star, homegrown outfielder who hits for average and power.
"I am happy because I know my swing now," Holliday said. "I am not guessing if I will be productive again."
Holliday has worked out extensively this winter - he weighs 235 pounds, down 5 pounds from last season - vows to be better defensively and believes the Rockies will be competitive. With whom and for how long is out of his control.
"I think a winning record is a fair goal," Holliday said. "They ultimately have to make the decisions regarding players. Until I am a free agent, I am not going to worry about it."
Just in case any of us were holding out any hope for the future, this should officially put an end to it. They've admitted that they're going to be in a never ending rebuilding mode, that they have no intention of paying anyone they actually develop and that they're fine with the idea of being a farm team for the large market franchises. It's a ****ing travesty, but that's life with the Monforts running the show.
They'll always have shills like good ol' boy Tracy Ringolsby to put their company spin on every move they make and don't make. I remember him ripping the Blue Jays fairly regularly last season for spending money in an attempt to make the Rockies penny pinching ways look good by comparison. Hey Tracy, at least the Blue Jays are trying to improve.
Well, the Rockies won't get any of my money for yet another season. I won't put a cent in their pockets until they show something resembling a commitment to winning, which doesn't appear to be anywhere on the horizon.
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Persona Non Grata
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I like that Holliday called them on their built in "We can't sign him because Scott Boras is his agent" excuse. I'll be sad to see him go in a year or less. Best player the Rockies have drafted and developed since Helton and he'll be spending his prime in another uniform. I guess Garrett Atkins had better be renting and not buying, too.
Just downright depressing.
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I agree with a lot of what Tracy Ringolsby had to say. The Rockies did the wise thing by not getting caught up in the wreckless spending that was going on this offseason. Off the top of my head, I can't think of more than 2 or 3 reasonable, long-term deals that were handed out this winter.
I agree with the sentiment here for the most part, the organization eventually needs to take some risks. You can't win a championship sitting on your hands. The Detroit Tigers took a lot of heat by the "Moneyball" nerds for signing Ivan Rodriguez and Magglio Ordonez a few years back, but both ended up being key veteran cogs on an American League championship team mixed with quite a bit of young talent. GM Dave Dombrowski had no choice at the time but generate some interest in the team after their historic season of futility.
When it becomes a buyers market or there's a lucrative opportunity via trade, I hope the Rockies eventually take a chance. The fans came out in droves in the 90s when the franchise put on a show. The Monforts need to invest some money into the team, excite people and they will get a nice return on it by selling more tickets, drawing higher TV ratings and slinging more merchandise.
Why haven't the Rockies ever signed a real bopper to play in Denver? I'm talking about somebody like Adam Dunn or Andruw Jones, bring in somebody who go after the tainted 73* in the thin air and generate some excitement for once.
The small market Oakland-Minnesota excuse is a bunch of baloney. Denver has a more advantageous market than half of baseball. The entire Rocky Mountain region is theirs. This isn't Milwaukee, Miami or San Diego. I remember my relatives up in the Black Hills of South Dakota always watched Rockies games because they were part of their home market and they were on TV every evening. Portland, Oregon is a huge revenue maker for the Seattle Mariners. I see no reason why the Rockies can't untap the potential of Salt Lake City or Albuquerque.
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As for getting a big bopper, I'll always contend that one of the Rockies biggest mistakes (and there have been many) was not going after Mike Piazza when Florida was looking to dump him. He absolutely murdered the ball whenever he played at Coors Field and he'd have been a perfect fit for this team. Alas, much like their chance to land Pedro Martinez, they let it slip away.
This region wants so badly to support this team, but they don't give anyone a reason to. It makes it worse when you can't even get attatched to the homegrown players because ownership doesn't want to pay them either.
The Monforts no longer seem to be interested in generating any excitement. They're content to sell 20,000 tickets (drawing closer to 10,000) per game and collect welfare checks from MLB. They treat this team like a business and nothing more.
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The "big market v. small market" excuse that teams like the Rockies pander to is all hot air with no substance. Many teams that don't have a limitless vault from a major media market still find a way to fund a very good team. Toronto isn't exactly a hot bed of sports love, but the team has kept themselves competitive and built a warchest through the lean years that can help them get back on their feet. San Francisco, one of two bay area teams, aren't afraid to spend money on veterans either. But then we're told that Pittsburgh isn't a big baseball market. PITTSBURGH! Its a sports city to its bone. Or that the entire Rocky Mt. region can't support the Rockies, that Minnesota can't get by and should be contracted, etc..
The only financial problems these teams have is ownership issues. They aren't baseball people, just businessmen looking to cash a check.
I'd be a better GM than the Rockies current management, and they could keep payroll locked at the same percentage of income its at now. Within five years they'd be hosting sell outs, be on national TV weekly, and have a payroll around $90-$100M, while still making the same percent profit. They have a great foundation to be a dominant team. The NL West is weak, they have a launching pad for a home field (people dig the long ball) and can build around it.
What the Rockies should do is invest money in pitchers with high G/F ratios and low WHIPs, a guy like Derrek Lowe would have been an excellent signing, getting Kameron Loe from the Rangers would be another smart move. Then build a starting unit that has plus defenders at SS and 2B, a very rangy CF, and fill the corners with power bats. People are going to hit homeruns in Coors, embrace it and make sure the opposition is hitting solo shots while the Rockies are hitting two and three run bombs.
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Great post Drek
However, I take exception to your statement the NL West is weak. I don't think there's a bad organization outside of Colorado in the division.
The Dodgers are coming off a wild card season, they have an influx of top notch young talent coming up from their farm system and Ned Colletti has the financial backing to fill holes with veterans. San Francisco has been competitive for the last decade and even though Brian Sabean has taken an unconventional approach with veterans, his strategy has worked time after time. San Diego has a weak farm system, but they have an All-Star front office with Kevin Towers, Sandy Alderson, Paul DePodesta, Grady Fuson, etc. The Padres have enjoyed three straight successful seasons since moving into their new ballpark. Arizona has a bright future with a bright GM in Josh Byrnes and possibly the best collection of youth in baseball. They may make a run at the NL West this year.
This is the third toughest division outside of the AL Central and East and easily the NL's strongest.
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How can an owner of a team that drew three million in one year b**** about not being able to play players?
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LA has a very bright future. Their pitching is getting long in the tooth but they have some amazing positional prospects in the pipe. They'll be one of the best every day lineups for years to come.
The Padres have a great front office that make smart moves and find diamonds in the rough. Their farm is a little bare and I think the Barfield trade was a bad move but they have young talent at 1B, SS, 3B, and C, a host of capable MLB level OFs, and good pitching especially in the 'pen. They don't need a lot of young guys stepping up and so can restock the farm while the current roster competes.
I expect Arizona to improve significantly with Byrnes running the show. He's a savvy guy and they have great positional prospects through every level of the farm but particularly at the higher levels ready to give them a ROY candidate season after season in the near future. If Byrnes can add some pitching around Webb they'll be well on their way to being a serious threat for the pennant.
I don't have similar faith in SF though. Outside of Matt Cain they have nothing down on the farm, largely because Sabean gave away 1st round picks to sign veterans so many years in a row now. They got Zito, but at a crazy price, and are going to overpay Bonds as well. They'll semi-compete for another year or two but soon they'll lose much of their current positional players to retirement and simply don't have the farm guys to replace anyone. They'll have Sabean go through another FA shopping spree, but again on a budget and he'll bring in more mediocre veterans. With the current setup they'll never elevate themselves beyond a slightly above or below .500 team.
The Rockies, if managed right, could exert the biggest home field advantage in sports to take control of the division, as the same style of defense and pitching that prevents extra men on base in Colorado would lead to amazing success in the bigger parks that SD and LA play in, their two biggest challenges if they were to become a legit competitor.
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Lost in the Woods: how the mainstream media too often dropped sourcing standards and blindly followed the lead of the tabs and entertainment Web sites during the Tiger Woods extravaganza.
The story provided copious and intimate details, including what kind of omelet Woods likes for breakfast. But the News' reporting was suspect on several levels. For one thing, the newspaper offered no independent evidence that might have corroborated Lawton's account--no incriminating text messages, no e-mails or voicemails from Woods to Lawton. Nor did the story cite a single eyewitness who could attest to even incidental elements, such as Lawton's claim that Woods had visited her restaurant with his family. And, of course, there was no comment from the other party allegedly involved in the relationship, Woods.
Most suspicious were some of Lawton's direct quotes; she referred to Woods as a "sportsman" and a parking lot as a "car park," British locutions unlikely to have been uttered by a Florida restaurant manager. It didn't help the story's credibility that it was published by the News of the World, one of Britain's racier tabloids, which often pays sources for stories. (The paper did not respond to a request for comment about the story.)
Yet none of it seemed to matter. Within hours of publication, Lawton's name was flying around the Internet, landing not just on blogs and gossip sites that have never made any claim to journalistic integrity but in mainstream media outlets that do. The Orlando Sentinel, the Miami Herald and the Chicago Sun-Times, among others, eagerly picked up the News' account, as did NBC's "Today" Show. Dozens more publications cited no source at all in recounting what Lawton had to say. None of the outlets that picked up the story appears to have spent much effort asking a fundamental question about it: Was it true?
Perhaps it didn't matter. By then, the news media was in full frenzy over Woods' philandering, and Lawton's tawdry tale fit with other "revelations" that were emerging almost hourly. In all, 18 women eventually came forward (or were identified by others) as alleged mistresses of the golfer.
(Comedian Andy Borowitz captured the flavor of the coverage with this dead-on dispatch on the online Borowitz Report: "In one of the largest mass demonstrations in recent history, over one million women claiming to have had sexual liaisons with Tiger Woods marched on Washington today.")
With few exceptions, all of the purported witnesses were treated with the same credulousness by the news media as Mindy Lawton.
There's no question that the news media got the direction of the Tiger Woods story right; Woods himself confirmed its hazy outlines a few days after the National Enquirer broke the story of his relationship with a New York event planner, Rachel Uchitel. In two brief and vaguely worded postings on his Web site, he acknowledged unspecified "transgressions" and "infidelity," thereby shattering his carefully crafted image as an upstanding family man. As some of his sponsors headed for cover, Woods took an indefinite hiatus from golf to sort out his personal life.
That, at least, is what is known for certain. But almost every other widely reported aspect of Tiger's tale rests on a wobbly foundation, unsupported by on-the-record sourcing, official documentation or direct observation--that is, the methods that journalists are supposed to employ to separate fact from speculation and substance from gossip. Much of what was reported relied instead on supposition, guesswork and innuendo, often sourced back to problematic stories like the News of the World's Lawton story or online reports of dubious provenance.
For all its lurid aspects, the Woods scandal may have constituted a watershed in American journalism: A major news story in which many "respectable" news outlets ditched traditional newsgathering methods and standards of fair play and piggybacked on aggressive but not always accurate tabloid reporting. The distinction between "mainstream" and "tabloid" may never have been so blurred as it was in the whirlwind of reporting on Woods.
The media circus surrounding Woods bore many aspects of those of yore, such as ones surrounding the O.J. Simpson saga and Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. But the Simpson and Lewinsky paroxysms occurred in what now seems like a quainter, more primitive media era--before the Internet's maturity, before Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. America's celebrity-media infrastructure has grown wildly since then, with the addition of dozens of full-time gossip-mongering sites like TMZ and RadarOnline, among others. And while there have been plenty of sex scandals in the contemporary media environment (Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Mark Sanford, Mark Foley, John Ensign, Larry Craig, and on and on), only Michael Jackson's child-molestation case of 2005 has involved someone as famous as Tiger Woods. Jackson and Woods are among the few people on the planet who could incite global media interest because they are among the few people so well known across the planet. Which explains why news sources all over the English-speaking world (Canada, Australia, Britain, Ireland, South Africa, etc.) were covering the Woods story almost as eagerly as the New York Post.
The Tiger Woods extravaganza suggests that the mainstream media's standards "have gotten a lot shabbier," says Stephen Hess, a Brookings Institution scholar who has watched the press while working for four presidential administrations. "You're slipping."
Months removed from the Woods explosion, key facts still are missing from the story, and formerly accepted ones look dubious. What, for example, led up to Woods' car crash in the early-morning hours after Thanksgiving? The established narrative--widely reported by the tabloid and mainstream media alike and seemingly certified as fact by a "Saturday Night Live" skit--was that Elin Nordegren had attacked her husband after learning about one or several of his affairs. The timing and circumstantial details certainly fit; the car accident occurred just after the National Enquirer's revelation of Woods' alleged sexual relationship with Uchitel.
The domestic-abuse angle persisted despite two denials from Woods ("The stories ... that physical violence played any role in the car accident were utterly false and malicious," he wrote on December 2) and in the absence of any independent verification. There was no police report asserting domestic battery, no eyewitness accounts and no statements from the doctors and nurses who treated Woods after the accident. Nordegren has made no statement of any kind.
In fact, TMZ, the celebrity-scandal site that has been the source of many Woods "scoops," reported on December 30 that Florida highway patrol officers who met with Woods three days after the incident claimed "Tiger's appearance gave them no reason to believe he was the victim of domestic violence." This contradicted TMZ's own reporting several weeks earlier. In a November 28 "exclusive," for example, the site reported, "Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren." TMZ repeated the abuse claim in several follow-up stories, including one reporting that Woods had told a TMZ source that his wife had "gone ghetto" on him just before he crashed his SUV.
Dozens of news outlets cited TMZ's November 28 report of domestic violence. But a search indicated only two other news sources--the Guardian of London and WESH-TV in Orlando, which broke the December 30 story about the highway patrol--carried any mention of the authorities' doubts about Nordegren's alleged beating of Woods. In a statement to the press on February 19, Woods said his wife hadn't attacked him.
TMZ has been on the money before, such as with its scoop about Michael Jackson's death last summer. But relying on TMZ's reporting, as many in the media did in the Woods case, can be risky. The domestic violence story may not be the only thing TMZ got wrong. Among other things, it reported on December 3 that Woods might be paying Uchitel for her silence; the next day it said no money had changed hands. It initially said Nordegren confronted Woods about Uchitel, precipitating an argument immediately before Woods crashed his car. It subsequently reported that the pre-crash argument was actually over another alleged mistress, Jaimee Grubbs. It then reversed field again and said Uchitel, not Grubbs, was the source of the purported domestic squabble. (TMZ did not respond to requests for comment.)
Was Woods addicted to painkillers at the time of his accident? Gerald Posner, The Daily Beast's chief investigative reporter, suggested as much, without substantiation, and CBS' "The Early Show" and NBC's "Today" show invited Posner on to repeat the claim. Did Woods offer his wife some kind of financial inducement for her silence and continued matrimony? Yes, said numerous news sources (the Chicago Sun-Times, US Weekly, the New York Post, the Boston Globe, Posner again on The Daily Beast), although there was little agreement about how much she would supposedly earn (anywhere from $5 million to $80 million). Was the couple leaving the country and moving to Sweden? Foxnews.com said so. Was Nordegren about to file for divorce? Dozens of news organizations vouched for it, with some sources claiming the filing would occur by the end of the year. Yet Woods and Nordegren remain in the United States, and no divorce action has been launched.
The wildest and most unsupported claims involved the number and identity of Woods' mistresses. Some media outlets--the Orlando Sentinel, New York's Daily News, the Philadelphia Daily News, Toronto's Globe & Mail and dozens of others--kept a running tally, periodically adding names and photos as the women surfaced, based on little more than the women's say-so or the word of anonymous sources. The list eventually grew to include two porn actresses, whose motivation for being associated with such a high-profile sex scandal was never seriously questioned.
The emergence of so many would-be paramours should have prompted journalists to ask a few questions, says Alicia C. Shepard, National Public Radio's ombudsman (and for many years a regular contributor to AJR). "Where were these women before the National Enquirer broke the story?" asks Shepard, who teaches media ethics at Georgetown University. "Why were some of them so easily available for interviews now? Shouldn't that make reporters suspicious?"
Reporting on extramarital relations or sexual misconduct is admittedly a tricky business; by definition, one or both parties would prefer to keep the news quiet. But journalists have been able to establish sexual misbehavior among the famous and powerful before. Colorado Sen. Gary Hart's relationship with Donna Rice came to light in 1987 when two Miami Herald reporters saw her emerging from Hart's house early one morning; they later obtained a picture of Rice sitting on Hart's lap. Florida Rep. Mark Foley's leering messages to a young congressional intern were substantiated by transcripts obtained by ABC News. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's visits to a call girl were confirmed by a federal wiretap investigation that was unearthed by the New York Times, which won a Pulitzer for its reporting. The smoking gun in Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky was a stained blue dress. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's undoing came after a reporter for the State newspaper spotted him in the Atlanta airport, a week after he disappeared for what his aides had said was a hike on the Appalachian Trail.
Only Uchitel and Grubbs' involvement with Woods seems at least circumstantially solid (for the record, Uchitel has denied having an affair with Woods; Grubbs has claimed a relationship with the superstar golfer). The National Enquirer spent weeks developing its story on Uchitel, submitting its sources to polygraph tests and at one point observing Uchitel on the same floor of the hotel where Woods was staying in Melbourne, Australia. Grubbs also offered something more than take-my-word-for-it assurances. In an interview with US Weekly, she produced a series of text messages allegedly from Woods and a voice recording of a man who sounds like Woods urging her to remove her name from her voicemail message, lest his wife hear it.
Among the mainstream media outlets most eager to pass along claims of dubious origin was the "Today" show, the highest-rated morning program on television. The program aired "exclusive" interviews with two women, Jamie Jungers and Cori Rist, who claimed to have had affairs with Woods. The interviews were perhaps most striking for the lack of skeptical questions; not once did interviewers Meredith Vieira (who spoke with Jungers) and Peter Alexander (who questioned Rist) ask the women a question that might have cast doubt on their assertions.
The thrust of "Today's" reporting on the scandal was to report what others had reported. In a single news report on December 7, for instance, Alexander cited TMZ twice, News of the World's story about Mindy Lawton, "Saturday Night Live" and The Daily Beast's report about Woods' alleged addiction to prescription drugs. Another Alexander report a few days later cited TMZ (about the presence of a moving van at Woods' estate the day before); US Weekly (about Woods and his wife attending "grueling" counseling sessions); and a story in "a celebrity-news Web site owned by AOL" that Woods was considering moving to France. The next day, citing People magazine, Alexander said Nordegren "has had enough and plans to leave Tiger Woods." (NBC News declined to comment for this article.)
The mass reporting of poorly sourced (or completely unsourced) information may reflect a hyper-competitive news environment that places a value on speed rather than accuracy or reliability. Given how quickly and widely "news" travels in the Internet age, news organizations can be quickly left behind unless they, too, report what's already "out there," even if it turns out to be wrong.
"The line that defines what's news is constantly moving, and it's making traditional legacy news outlets nervous," says Sharon Waxman, who has covered Hollywood for the Washington Post and New York Times, and now runs her own entertainment-industry news site, TheWrap.com. "They are constantly getting outflanked by little Web sites like TMZ. But it's really lazy and irresponsible to just throw something up there because it drives traffic. You can't let yourself get dragged into a story just because it's salacious and sensational and someone else is reporting it. ... A lot of half-assed stuff gets published that way in every category, not just Hollywood."
There was one bright spot in the otherwise dismal media picture. Some leading newspapers certainly didn't ignore the Woods story, but their coverage was marked by relative restraint. Papers such as the New York Times were generally cautious about reporting the names of the parade of women who claimed to have had affairs with Woods. During the month that the Woods story was in the news, the New York Times mentioned Jaimee Grubbs just twice; it never mentioned Rachel Uchitel at all, according to a Nexis search. The Washington Post mentioned Uchitel in six articles and reported on Grubbs' connection in six others. The Los Angeles Times barely bothered; it had only two references to Grubbs' role in the scandal, and none about Uchitel.
So why did so much of the mainstream media so assiduously follow the tabloid lead on the Tiger Woods story? Perhaps because of the way another recent sex scandal played out. In 2007, the National Enquirer reported that former Sen. John Edwards had had an affair with a videographer who worked on his presidential campaign, Rielle Hunter, and had fathered her baby. Edwards repeatedly denied the allegation, dismissing the story as "tabloid trash."
In the absence of definitive proof, and faced with choosing between a tabloid newspaper that acknowledges paying sources for stories and a would-be Democratic presidential nominee, many prominent news organizations sat on the Enquirer's revelations, even as the story circulated broadly around the Internet. When Edwards finally confessed to the affair in an interview with ABC in August 2008 and more recently to paternity of Hunter's child, the revelation embarrassed those news organizations that had chosen not to report the story.
What changed between the Edwards and Woods stories? NPR's Shepard suggests the first scandal incited the firestorm over the second: "The John Edwards story forced legitimate news organizations not to ignore Tiger Woods. The mainstream media used to dismiss that kind of story. Now they do so at their own peril. The floodgates are open. Anything goes."
But it isn't quite that simple, says Bonnie Fuller, the former editor in chief of US Weekly. The circumstances surrounding the two scandals were quite different, says Fuller, who now heads a celebrity news site called HollywoodLife.com. She notes that several events happened in rapid succession to propel the media's pursuit of Tiger--the National Enquirer story, followed by the SUV accident, Woods' visit to a hospital, Grubbs' disclosure of text messages and a voicemail, and Woods' vague public confession. "There were no issues of denial," Fuller says. "There was clearly a story there." Conversely, Edwards vehemently disputed that he'd had an affair, with little to disprove it other than the National Enquirer's account. "It pretty much ended there," she says.
Barry Levine, the National Enquirer's editor, doesn't see much cause and effect between the Edwards and Woods sagas. While he remains frustrated by the media's delayed reaction to his tabloid's Edwards story, he, like Fuller, believes the attention to Woods was fueled by chain reaction--the Enquirer's scoop, the mystery over the post-Thanksgiving SUV crash, Woods' statements and the emergence of all the alleged mistresses. "We cracked it open," Levine says, "but others followed. We put it out there, but the rest of it would have come out, maybe in days, maybe in a few weeks."
Levine does think, however, that the Enquirer's timing may have played some role in how quickly the Woods story built. The newspaper was ready to publish its story the week before Thanksgiving, at a time when Woods was out of the country. In the face of legal threats from Woods' camp, it delayed publication for a week to do additional reporting and double-checking. The story finally appeared after Woods had returned home to Florida to spend Thanksgiving with his family. If the Enquirer had published a week earlier, the alleged domestic confrontation between Woods and his wife that triggered the SUV accident might never have occurred, changing the story's trajectory, he says.
Levine finds himself surprised, appalled and somewhat amused by the way much of the mainstream media handled the Woods scandal. The Enquirer's original story, he notes, took months of reporting. It involved many hours of interviews, polygraph tests, stakeouts, document dives and travel. It was checked and re-checked. But many members of the MSM, he notes, exercised no such care in reporting subsequent aspects of the story. "It would have taken us a couple of years to properly investigate each of these women's claims as thoroughly as we did the first" woman's, Levine says. "The stories were all over the place. There was just some outrageous coverage."
That's right. The editor of the National Enquirer doesn't think much of the way the "respectable" media covered Tiger Woods. Anyone paying close attention would concur that he has a point. It might be that the biggest scandal to come out of the Woods affair wasn't the one about a golfer. It was the one about the news media.
Paul Farhi (firstname.lastname@example.com), a Washington Post reporter, writes frequently about the media for the Post and AJR. He wrote "Go Big or Go Under" in AJR's Winter 2009 issue.
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Washington Post Story Convinces Service Providers To Pull The Plug On Major Spam Enabler
from the but-where-do-they-go dept
This case is a little different, in that it didn't shut down the spammers themselves, but rather a hosting company that apparently many of the largest zombie botnets relied on. However, it seems quite likely that they'll find some other hosting company that will gladly take them on and everything will be up and running again. That's not to say it's bad that these guys get taken down -- but at some point people should realize this seems like a big game of whack-a-mole, and there may be better, more efficient ways to tackle the problem.


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Wapak shuts out O-G, closing in on WBL title
From staff reports
The Wapakoneta Redskins, with a win over the Ottawa-Glandorf Titans on Monday, inched one win closer to winning the Western Buckeye League title.
The Redskins' 5-0 win Monday over O-G moved their WBL record to 7-0 on the season.
Wapak can clinch at least a share of the WBL title with a win Thursday against St. Marys.
At first singles, Kaitlin Snider topped Amy Schmiedebusch, 6-2, 6-4. Allie Zofkie defeated Tiffany Kahle, 6-1, 6-0, in second singles. At third singles, Rachel Roberts beat Haley Recker, 6-1, 6-0.
Zofkie and Roberts each remained undefeated this season with their wins Monday.
Kiersten Wellons and Chelsea Myers handled Alyssa Schnipke and Lauren Schneeg, 6-1, 6-1. At second doubles, Carly Buzzard and Amanda Sims shut out Lexi Hasleyman and Erin Hageman, 6-0, 6-0.
Wapak is now 10-0 overall this season.
The Redskins will play the Lima Central Catholic Thunderbirds today in a non-league road match at the Collett Street Courts in Lima.
Follow high school tennis coverage from the Wapakoneta Daily News on Twitter using the hashtag #wdnTEN


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Jones upbeat despite slow 40 on Georgia's pro day
Jarvis Jones was certain he had a "great day" in his workout
for NFL coaches and scouts at Georgia's pro day on Thursday, even
if his slow time in the 40-yard dash told a different story.
Jones, an outside linebacker, is regarded as a probable
first-round pick in the NFL draft. He ran the 40 in an unimpressive
4.92 seconds in less than ideal conditions. Temperatures were in
the mid-30s when players were timed on Georgia's artificial turf
practice field.
Linebacker Alec Ogletree, another possible first-round pick, was
clocked at 4.63 seconds.
Jones said he realized the pro day could play a big role in next
month's draft.
"This is one of the biggest interviews right now that I'm going
to have in my life," Jones said. "I believe all 32 teams are
here. What is going to be better than that?"
The strong turnout from the NFL included head coaches Mike Smith
of Atlanta, Rex Ryan of the Jets and Mike Tomlin of Pittsburgh.
Among the assistants attending were defensive coordinators Jack Del
Rio of Denver and Rob Ryan of New Orleans and Chargers offensive
coordinator Ken Whisenhunt.
Jones said he didn't even want to know his time in the 40. Each
player had two attempts. On Jones' first run, he appeared to pull
up and grimace near the end, but he said he was not injured.
"I can't even tell you what happened," Jones said. "I think I
missed a step. I don't know if I overstepped or understepped, but
it felt weird."
Jones completed 20 repetitions of 225 pounds on the bench press,
only one below defensive tackle Kwame Geathers but three below the
team-best totals of 23 by running back Richard Samuel and
cornerback Sanders Commings. He had mid-level results of 30.5
inches in the vertical jump and 9 feet, 3 inches in the broad
Jones was measured at 6-2 and 248 pounds.
He says he hopes to be judged in the draft by his record as one
of the nation's top pass-rushers. He had 28 sacks in two seasons at
Georgia, including 14 1/2 in 2012.
"I'm a football player," Jones said. "It's about football,
right? I'm a football player. That's what I do. At the end of the
day, you get those drills – I'm not saying they ain't worth nothing
– but you get those drills, running the 40 and all that stuff. You
could get someone off the street who can run a 4.3, but they can't
play football. That's easy."
Smith said the players' 40-yard times in the NFL combine and the
pro day are only one part of their evaluations by NFL teams.
"I think you've got to not just evaluate the sprints and
stuff," Smith said. "You want to watch their individual workouts
that they do in terms of position skills. Those are the things that
they run at the combine and you've got the measures on them. This
was another opportunity to watch them doing some different drills
that they didn't do at the combine."
Ogletree, suspended for the first four games last season, had a
DUI arrest one week before last month's NFL combine.
Asked what message he wants to give to the NFL, Ogletree said
"That I'm a hard worker. I'm a good person. I made a mistake but
I'm learning from it. I'm willing to work every day."
Despite missing the four games, Ogletree led Georgia with 111
Georgia expects to set a school record with at least nine
players selected in next month's NFL draft, and most are defensive
players. There were 18 players, including 12 on defense, in
Thursday's drills.
Smith said Georgia, coming off a 12-2 season under coach Mark
Richt, has an unusually deep pool of draft prospects. Smith said
he's not accustomed to seeing so many defensive prospects at any
"It's not the norm, that's for sure," Smith said. "Coach
Richt and his staff have done a great job putting together some
really good players and this year is probably the best that I've
seen in the five years that I've been coming over."
Georgia had a school-record eight players drafted in 2002.
"I'm hoping it gets at least into the double digits," Richt
said of this year's draft.
"You could tell there's going to be a bunch of Bulldogs out of
this class playing in the league, and we're excited for them. … A
day like today was so big for the players, but it was big for
Georgia, also."
Other defensive players who worked out for scouts were Commings,
Geathers, safeties Bacarri Rambo and Shawn Williams, cornerback
Branden Smith, defensive linemen Abry Jones and Cornelius
Washington, and linebackers Christian Robinson and Michael
Wide receiver Tavarres King and Samuel were Georgia's most
prominent offensive players in the draft.
Richt's son, quarterback Jon Richt, also participated in the
testing. Jon Richt began his career at Clemson before transferring
to Mars Hill College.
Mark Richt said his son participated because Georgia had no
senior quarterback to throw passes to King and Samuel.
"It was nice for him to have an opportunity to throw," Richt
Smith ran the 40 in 4.38 seconds, easily the best time of the
day. His broad jump of 10-8 also was the day's best.


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*Kanye West surprised the "Jimmy Fallon" audience Monday by dropping in to perform the "Yeezus" track "Bound 2" with R&B legend Charlie Wilson and of course backed by the show's house band, The Roots.
The only heads up about the surprise was a tweet from Fallon hours earlier: "@kanyewest surprises Late Night and performs "Bound 2″ with @theroots and kills it."
In his first-ever performance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" (as well as the live debut of the song) 'Ye let Wilson do the singing first, as the Gap Band legend was in fine voice on the opening hook, "I know you're tired of loving, of loving" over majestic piano backing.
Moments later, the Roots kicked in full force, along with a six-voice children's chorus as West leaned into the song's reworked-for-TV opening bridge. In those lines, he took a not-so-subtle jab at his girlfriend Kim Kardashian's ex, Ray J: "Brandy's little sister lame, man, he know it now," he rapped. "When a real brother hold you down you supposed to drown."
Wearing his signature black leather kilt over black leather pants, along with a green tank top and matching jacket, West was his typically fierce self, not censoring all the lyrics to the song and earning a few bleeps from the network censors.
All the while, Wilson soulfully scatted behind the rapper as 'Ye worked the stage, and, near the end of the almost five-minute performance, threw his head back and splayed his arms out to the side as Wilson brought it all home with some ad lib runs.
Watch below.
Kanye recently announced the dates for his Yeezus tour, which is slated to kick off on October 19 at the Key Arena in Seattle and feature guest Kendrick Lamar.


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The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you refer to it, you can be sure that your reference will always refer to exactly the same document.
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CDR - The Common Lisp Document Repository
The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you refer to it, you can be sure that your reference will always refer to exactly the same document.
There have been a number of attempts to establish a standardization process for Common Lisp after it has been officially published as an ANSI standard. The ANSI standardization was very costly and very time consuming (according to Google Groups comp.lang.lisp 15248a1b11c5a603 it took nearly 10 years and at least $400K).
The goal of the Common Lisp Document Repository is to be more light-weight and more efficient. We focus on one aspect of standardization: the ability to refer to a specification document in an unambiguous way.
The Common Lisp Document Repository intentionally does not define a process for coming up with specifications or any other means to guarantee some level of quality of the submitted documents. Instead, we aim for a community-driven, decentralized approach to come up, discuss and finalize specifications. In this sense, we only provide the services of librarians.
We hope that the Common Lisp Document Repository has the potential to prove useful in establishing new de-facto standards, and to serve as a stepping stone for more formal standardizations in the long run.
The Common Lisp Document Repository is hosted at http://cdr.eurolisp.org.
The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of printable text documents that contain material that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. For example, a CDR document can contain specifications of libraries, language extensions, example implementations, test suites, articles, etc. Each CDR document will be identified by a number. Form and possible contents of CDR documents are not prescribed, but the goal is to provide the Common Lisp community with a way to unambiguously refer to a document by way of mentioning its CDR number.
The repository already contains two CDR documents: CDR 0 describes CDR itself, and CDR 1 is the CLOS Metaobject Protocol specification as published in the book "The Art of the Metaobject" by Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivieres and Daniel G. Bobrow.
The presence of a document in the CDR repository does not imply a recommendation of any kind, but we leave the acceptance or rejection of particular documents to the community's natural selection process. We expect that some CDR documents will claim to be replacements of, or clarifications for, previous ones, but again such statements do not mean that this repository's goal is to enforce such developments. We are just librarians who want to make it possible to refer and cite documents of interest to Common Lispers.
We use a light-weight process that consists of the following steps:
1. One or more authors submit a document. 2. We check that the document is a printable text document, that it is indeed about Common Lisp, and that it does not contain objectionable material (like porn, religious or political statements, etc.). 3. The document will be immediately assigned a fresh CDR number that can be used to refer to the document. We will make the document available for an initial period, after which it will be frozen and moved into final status, unless the authors decide to withdraw the document during the initial period.
For more details about the process, see the CDR manual at http://cdr.eurolisp.org.
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"Fierce Fight" is a fast and driving piece, full of adrenaline pumping action! It makes use of heavy percussion, bright brass, and a full chorus which enters near the end. This would be perfect battle music for a video game, movie trailer, or anything that you want to bring to the next level of intensity!
Along with this purchase you get a version which loops seamlessly (0:00-2:16), for added flexibility and use!
As always, thanks for listening!


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|Rye, N.Y.
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2013: (Indoor): came tenth in the 500m at the Harvard Challenge (1/19) with a time of 1:06.55 … finished 76th in the 400m with a 50.69 and was part of the 4x400 relay that came 23rd in 3:20.86 at the Terrier Classic (1/26) … was eighth in the final of the 600m with a 1:23.37 and was part of the second-place finishing 4x800 relay that crossed the line in 7:54.21 at the New England Division III Championship (2/16) … (outdoor): finished in seventh place in the 400m against Bates, Colby and USM (4/13) with a time of 51.06 … came in seventh in the 400m with a time of 51.35 at NEWMACs (4/27).
2012: New England Division III champion in the 4x400 relay (3:24.24) … finished 14th in the 400m dash (53.36) … came eighth in the 600m (indoor) at the NE Div. 3 (1:23.94) … came sixth in the 4x400m relay (3:19.74) at the National Collegiate Athletic Association … Division III All-New England in 600m and 4x400m relay … NEICAAA All-New England in 4x400m relay … All-America honors in 4x400m relay.
2011: NCAA Division III All-Region in 4x400 relay (indoor) … won 4x400 relay at three different meets and finished second on two occasions … finished sixth in 400m (52.22 seconds) at NEWMAC championship.
Off the Track: Majoring in materials science and engineering with a minor in energy studies and a concentration in economics … interned at LightSail Energy … researched 3D solar cells and grain boundary energy in iron … president of Delta Tau Delta.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Rye High School.


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In case you needed further proof that Riot Games' League of Legends: Clash of Fates was a real game, we give you... the snow level.
I wouldn't go as far as saying a game requires a snow level in order to be considered a real game, but it certainly helps. As it stood, I was pretty sure that competitive action RTS League of Legends was real, thanks to a rather lengthy feature that appear previously on these very pages, but it certainly helps to have confirmation.
Thanks for the screens, Riot. We eagerly await confirmation of the desert level.


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UM_AaaBattery Moderator URBAN MADNESS Wednesday 26/10/2011, 12:04
Do you want to be part of one of the top guilds in the world?
Do you want to be part of one of the top U.K guilds? (Though you don't have to be from the U.K. because we accept anyone who meets the entry requirements).
Do you want a guild that is fun and active?
Do you want members that will help you advance into deeper waters and understandings of the game?
Do you want loads and loads of giveaways?
Do you want to know the secrets of winning Events/ELO/Daily Tornaments/Survivor and Deathmatch
Do you want regularly updated information on the ELO metagame?
Do you want to know the low down on all the new cards that get released?
Why not join URBAN MADNESS?
-level 30+
-You must be able to speak English.
-You must play a minimum of 1 fight per month. (This is just so we can see that people haven't left the game)
"Question UM_AaaBattery.
Player: I love this game and I'm really really active but i'm only lv 25 can you let me in please? I have really good cards!!"
UM_AaaBattery: Unfortunately UM is very strict on our 30+ rules so there are no exceptions.
"Question UM_AaaBattery.
Player: What if we go away for a month or so making it impossible for us to play the game?"
UM_AaaBattery: We have a thread in the stickies entitled: "(!!!) Rifle Range (!!!)" Where you can post that you are away.
When you join please can you look at the tags system in our message board rules so you know what to do when posting threads.
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